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    Slow NAS speed

    upgrade all devices to AC if you can.
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    2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps Eithernet

    http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/why-2.5-and-5-gbps-are-the-next-ethernet-speeds.html I for one can't wait... need a samba coding improvements to keep up to boot...
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    NETGEAR R8000 Nighthawk X6 Review

    why are the screws not taken out! waiting for the tear down!
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    AC3200 Routers By July?

    r8000 is out, dieing for the review. got one last night, can get 40GB/s file transfer speed from wired server to Surface Pro 3!!!
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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    i was able to install fedora 13 64 bit with four data drives and one OS laptop drive. i had to compile a custom kernel and use the lagacy ide drivers. just like intel had to do, just look at their config file in "EMCLifeLineOEMSW-1.1-GPLComponents". perhaps i will redo and scrape off a...
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    How To Build a Really Fast NAS - Part 2: Shaking Down the Testbed

    I've already tried the cable between two computers just to rule out the switches and and cabling. I have one switch in the "media cabinet" which has the NAS connected to it and then a switch in each room to connect multiple devices. So a room to room file transfer will have three hops, and...
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    why do people think they need hardware raid for a NAS?

    with modern low end dual core processors you have plenty of power for software raid! If you are buying a hardware card please be sure its processor is powerful enough that it will not be bottlenecked and will meet your expectations. Check the raid 5 and 10 benchmarks. To get a good card you...
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    How To Build a Really Fast NAS - Part 2: Shaking Down the Testbed

    server/nas/router is fedora 9 x64 clients are all vista-64 business I've run benchmarks with Sandra, but i don't believe them. i'm starting to believe some of these consumer based switches are processor bottleneck and so are the adapters.
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    How To Build a Really Fast NAS - Part 4: Ubuntu Server

    careful, some raid cards do not have enough cpu horsepower to do raid5 fast, ie cpu bound.
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    How To Build a Really Fast NAS - Part 2: Shaking Down the Testbed

    I think your limitations are on your network (nix/switch/cable)! I’ve run into your same 40GB problem. I can write to my nas at 90GB/s at thru the most friendly network adapter and switch combination, but I can only seem to read at 40GB/s at best! Using certain router combination can limit my...
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