claykin
join:2003-08-22
Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Re: ReadyNAS Duo Question
You should be good with the Netgear GS116. Jumbo frames can fallback so if you set 9K it will fallback to the 7K level automatically.
You should not notice any noticeable slowdown by switching to JF. When doing raw testing JF can be a bit slower when transferring lots of small files. Overall JF will improve performance if all your hardware supports it. Do some testing and see how it works out for you.
Have you seen this page on Netgears site?
»www.readynas.com/?p=310 |
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daveinpoway
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join:2006-07-03
Poway, CA
| Thanks for that link; I had not seen it before. I bookmarked it, and will digest the material later.
I see that the GS116 switch is not on their compatibility list, but the GS108 is- strange! Perhaps the list was made up before the GS116 came out, and no one bothered to update the list.
When I get some free time, I will try out Jumbo Frames to see what occurs. As I discovered with my Flow Control experiment, not every recommended tweak will work in every setup. I'm still not certain why I got the results that I did, but it definitely did happen. At the 20 Mbps (or so) download speed point, I wouldn't have thought that FC (as I understand it) would even be triggered, regardless of whether I have it turned on or not. The speed did drop to around 9 Mbps, though, so something was definitely happening.
I would definitely expect striped RAID (when it becomes available in the upcoming firmware update) to provide some speed increase, but I will have to actually try it to see how much improvement happens. |
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daveinpoway
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join:2006-07-03
Poway, CA | Did a test this morning- transferring a file to the ReadyNAS Duo took 76 seconds with Jumbo Frames off. I turned JF on in the NAS and set the Mac Pro for 7936- the same transfer took 62 seconds- there was definitely an improvement. |
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