Currently have a Readynas duo at work and getting super slow transfer speeds 700-900kbs.
I know these things are tempremental at best so does anyone have a success story about them or can recommend something alot better?
Synology disk station
fast transfer rates. loads of features. easy to use.
Qnap ones are pretty good too. Decent speeds and you can run a bunch of stuff on them too.
There's a lot of things that can influence the speed but primarily it's the network.
I've got a ReadyNAS Duo here, fitted with twin [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002C1ANNO/ref=oss_product ]Seagate Barracuda 5900rpm 2TB drives[/url]. It's connected using Gigabit Ethernet directly to my wireless router.
A machine that's connected again by Gigabit ethernet directly to the router is seeing file transfers of 17MBs on reads and 25MBs a writes. One over Wireless-N on the other side of the house is seeing reads of 5.5MBs and writes of 6.5MBs. Both tested just now using the same 500MB file.
So I'd suggest your network is making far more of a difference than the ReadyNAS.
Look into your network rather than the device itself.
We have a ReadyNAS 1100, which zips along nicely.
Qnap ( I have the old 219p ). Last year I rebuilt my PC at work and copied 50Gb of music to it from the QNap - which was at home, over the course of a day.
I also run a photo web site from it, and have looked into running eyeOS online, though that was a little bit slow.
That said, where, and exactly how are you getting the slow transfer speeds ( wifi/ethernet/gigabit ethernet ? )
Just moved a 1GB file from my ReadyNAS Duo to my desktop PC
~9.1 MB/second
a 3.3gb folder was just stating an estimated 55mins...
The network is annoying the hell out of me. The switch, printer, NAS and NICS should all be gb capable. The switch is reading gb for the Printer and NAS but not the NICs. On the computers the NIC connections are showing 10mps
Try manually setting the NICs to 100mps
That sounds like you've got Cat5 rather than Cat5e or Cat6 cables in your network then. They'll slow it down to 100Mb speeds rather than Gigabit.
nope all Cat5e cables, can't manually set the NICs to 100mps full as it just crashes the connection. The Neatgear switch is a GS608 which is full automatic and can't be changed