Hello all,
I was off work this week so on Monday I decided I would run out and buy a Sonos S5 wireless music system. I quickly realized how cool it would be to have a NAS to stream music to my Sonos S5. I then realized how cool it would be to have a DLNA server to stream video to all of my connected devices.. (you can see where I am going with this).
I went to Micro Center to look at their selection and for whatever reason they kept telling me the Seagate black armor 220 was pretty good. I figured gigabit, etc should be able to get some decent performance out of it. So I bought one.
Needless to say it was a mistake.
I am having several problems with this device:
#1 The performance is terrible. The highest I have ever seen in write is 7MB/sec which equates to about ~56Mbps.
#2 If I am writing data to the NAS in Windows 7 via CIFS and someone tries to stream data (video, whatever) from the NAS at the same time it literally disconnects my data transfer with something stupid like "invalid file handle". if by some miracle the video will play while I am writing to the NAS it is not watchable at the frame rate it is getting sent at.
I only have two more days off (plus memorial day) and so far I am really disappointed. I am going to try and take this Black Armor 220 back to micro center but then it occured to me I have no idea what else to buy.
From everything I read on SNB the LS-WV2.0TL/R1 by Buffalo should be easily two times as fast as the Black Armor 220 but then again in your benchmarks you gave the Black Armor 220 4x more performance than I can get out of it. I read horror stories about how if you connect the BA 220 to a dlink switch that it will only copy at 1MB/sec (lol) so I just ran a cross over cable directly into the darn thing to avoid any kind of wacky networking issues that may be present and it didn't really help.
Does anyone have any advice for me? The main reason I bought the BA 220 was because of the price and because I was a dumbass and didn't read your wonderful benchmarks.
Please assist!!
I was off work this week so on Monday I decided I would run out and buy a Sonos S5 wireless music system. I quickly realized how cool it would be to have a NAS to stream music to my Sonos S5. I then realized how cool it would be to have a DLNA server to stream video to all of my connected devices.. (you can see where I am going with this).
I went to Micro Center to look at their selection and for whatever reason they kept telling me the Seagate black armor 220 was pretty good. I figured gigabit, etc should be able to get some decent performance out of it. So I bought one.
Needless to say it was a mistake.
I am having several problems with this device:
#1 The performance is terrible. The highest I have ever seen in write is 7MB/sec which equates to about ~56Mbps.
#2 If I am writing data to the NAS in Windows 7 via CIFS and someone tries to stream data (video, whatever) from the NAS at the same time it literally disconnects my data transfer with something stupid like "invalid file handle". if by some miracle the video will play while I am writing to the NAS it is not watchable at the frame rate it is getting sent at.
I only have two more days off (plus memorial day) and so far I am really disappointed. I am going to try and take this Black Armor 220 back to micro center but then it occured to me I have no idea what else to buy.
From everything I read on SNB the LS-WV2.0TL/R1 by Buffalo should be easily two times as fast as the Black Armor 220 but then again in your benchmarks you gave the Black Armor 220 4x more performance than I can get out of it. I read horror stories about how if you connect the BA 220 to a dlink switch that it will only copy at 1MB/sec (lol) so I just ran a cross over cable directly into the darn thing to avoid any kind of wacky networking issues that may be present and it didn't really help.
Does anyone have any advice for me? The main reason I bought the BA 220 was because of the price and because I was a dumbass and didn't read your wonderful benchmarks.
Please assist!!