Network Storage Virgins

[RW99]

I'm venturing past just having a PC and USB backup drive and I'm hoping for some help on a couple of questions...

Is there a way to automatically sync My Music folder to the public shared folder?

When I copy my music over manually, I only get about 25mb/sec. Is there a way to get it to 100? Can I do Gigabit? I have Windows 7 PC, 3 TB WD My Book Live, and a Shaw modem/router that is their new standard: http://www.cisco.com/web/consumer/su...m_DPC3825.html

Thanks!

[Flacker]

I would recommend getting a gig switch. If you are using the ports on the router they are 100Mb. Traffic between any PCs and the NAS would be Gb and anything bound for the internet would be 100Mb.

Also network speeds are theoretical, you won't ever get anywhere close 100Mb or 1Gb with protocol overheads. They are also stated in bits not bytes. Any transfer speeds shown on the PC will be in bytes.

[FlamingLonghorn]

1 gigabit per sec is ~ 110 Megabytes per sec

[TheGrimm]

Originally Posted by Sowa

1 gigabit per sec is ~ 110 Megabytes per sec

Yup, it's a common misconception when talking about network speeds..

A byte is equal to 8 bits.

100 Mbps (Megabits per second) so you'd need to divide it by 8 to have it equal MB/s (Megabytes per second).

As mentioned, a Gigabit link can sustain a theoretical maximum of 125 MB/s but you likely won't achieve it, there are all kinds of other factors, primarily hard disk write and read speed in most home solutions.

[TheGrimm]

Originally Posted by RW99

I'm venturing past just having a PC and USB backup drive and I'm hoping for some help on a couple of questions...

Is there a way to automatically sync My Music folder to the public shared folder?

When I copy my music over manually, I only get about 25mb/sec. Is there a way to get it to 100? Can I do Gigabit? I have Windows 7 PC, 3 TB WD My Book Live, and a Shaw modem/router that is their new standard: http://www.cisco.com/web/consumer/su...m_DPC3825.html

Thanks!

If you are getting 25 MB/s you would pretty much have to be on gigabit links already as that is 200 Mbps.

[TheGrimm]

Proud moment for me, that post just upgraded me to "Crash and Bang Winger"

[photon]

25MB/s (200Mbps, so looks like you're already above 100Mbit) is actually pretty good for a single network attached hard drive for copying a bunch of files up to it, you aren't going to get a whole lot more without getting into a more expensive NAS with multiple drives. The theoretical maximum of the drive is 100MB/s.



The speed will vary quite a bit depending on what you are doing.

For syncing the My Music folder, is there a good reason to sync it at all (i.e. is your PC a laptop)? Otherwise probably easier to just keep your music on the network drive. If you do want to sync, I think Windows can actually do that (Offline Files), where Windows will make a local copy of a network share and automatically connect or use the local copy depending on if you are connected to the network or not. I've never used it though.

The Cisco router/modem you have already has Gigabit ports.

EDIT: Too slow

[Flacker]

Originally Posted by TheGrimm

If you are getting 25 MB/s you would pretty much have to be on gigabit links already as that is 200 Mbps.

Well he did say mb not MB so he may be speaking bits, but I don't think too many applications will state anything in bits/sec. I was thinking the same thing, if he is getting 25MB/sec that is more than a 100Mb/sec connection will provide.

[FlamingLonghorn]

Originally Posted by TheGrimm

Yup, it's a common misconception when talking about network speeds..

A byte is equal to 8 bits.

100 Mbps (Megabits per second) so you'd need to divide it by 8 to have it equal MB/s (Megabytes per second).

As mentioned, a Gigabit link can sustain a theoretical maximum of 125 MB/s but you likely won't achieve it, there are all kinds of other factors, primarily hard disk write and read speed in most home solutions.

Yeah sorry I am use to talking about enterprise networks and storage, so I just use 110 MB/s because I see between 110-120 in most cases and don't want my customers calculating using 125.

[RW99]

Alright thanks. I think I'm getting my MBs and Mbs mixed up. Based on the image below from Photon, 27.59 for 'file copy to nas' seems to be in line.

Originally Posted by photon

The speed will vary quite a bit depending on what you are doing.

For syncing the My Music folder, is there a good reason to sync it at all (i.e. is your PC a laptop)? Otherwise probably easier to just keep your music on the network drive. If you do want to sync, I think Windows can actually do that (Offline Files), where Windows will make a local copy of a network share and automatically connect or use the local copy depending on if you are connected to the network or not. I've never used it though.

I wanted to both have a backup of my music/video/photos and also have it available on the NAS for other devices to connect to it. Is there a way to keep it on the network drive and also back it up to some saved space on my PC or USB drive?

[photon]

Something like SyncToy might get the job done, it's two way though, not sure if you want that or if you want one to be the "authority".

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=15155

I haven't used it though.