NAS advice

[Weeb]

Hi,

just started looking for a NAS, mainly to use as a download station.
My friend has an old NAS I helped him configure but he is only getting speeds of around 3-3,5 MB/s on torrents.

I'm looking for something that can handle torrents at at least 10MB/s.

I'm not going to have multiple devices streaming DLNA content at once so I figured I won't be needing a core i3 or some other high performance NAS. The question is what will I need?

I've looked for torrent benchmarks but can't find any.

The 2 devices I've found that are cheap and seem "decent?" are:

Seagate STBN Business Storage
ZyXEL NSA-325v2

Any recommendations?

I have no problems installing Linux or 3rd party firmware if it would help me get speed.

 

[thiggins]

You are correct that we don't benchmark torrent downloading. It is too dependent on internet performance.

If you want many torrenting options, check QNAP, Thecus and Synology.

 

[Weeb]

I do understand that my internet performance is a factor.
Today I have a 100/100 Mbit connection I might me upgrading to 250mbit or 500mbit but that will be a later problem.

To my PC i have no problems getting about 11-12 MB/s however since torrenting takes up quiet a few connections etc it does require a bit of cpu performance.

I've tried using the torrent client in my router (N56U) but I only get about 4MB/s and I really don't want to have my router maxed out with torrents. I'm assuming there are a few settings I could tweak etc but still I don't think I'll get up to about 10MB/s

 

[joen270]

downloading torrents at 4megs is really good. I have a 50/50 connection and hitting 4 is on the high side. Performance of the NAS will have hardly nothing to do with download speed. it is 100% dependent on internet speed, seeders, lechers, etc.