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Author Topic: How do you measure files transfer speed between DNS-321 and your PC?  (Read 3551 times)

pwanghk

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How do you measure files transfer speed between DNS-321 and your PC?
« on: September 14, 2010, 02:48:03 PM »
Greetings:

I would like to measure as accurately as possible the files transfer speed between my PC hooking up directly to the DNS-321.  Is timing a copy of 4GB of VOB files (VIDEO_TS folder) both way and divide it by the times it took a good way of measure or is there a more accurate method?

Thanks in advance for your time and help.
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: How do you measure files transfer speed between DNS-321 and your PC?
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2010, 03:39:48 PM »
Copy a large file, say 1gig, and time it.  Then copy a folder of smaller files the same size and time that.  You can see the maximum transfer rate and the typical for more normal sized files.
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Remember: Data you don't have two copies of is data you don't care about!
PS: RAID of any level is NOT a second copy.

mig

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Re: How do you measure files transfer speed between DNS-321 and your PC?
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2010, 12:46:43 PM »
You could try 'NAS performance tester' if your PC runs a Windows OS.
http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance
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pwanghk

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Re: How do you measure files transfer speed between DNS-321 and your PC?
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2010, 03:09:43 PM »
Thank you all for your response ans especially for the NAS performance tester link.

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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: How do you measure files transfer speed between DNS-321 and your PC?
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2010, 03:29:18 PM »
I prefer the "real world" test over a benchmark, I find them to be more accurate. :)
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PS: RAID of any level is NOT a second copy.