Yesterday I decided to set up a new NAS on my home network and opted in for the Netgear ReadyNAS RND2110. I managed to pick it up for just £136 and included was a 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive and if I send off my invoice and serial number to Netgear they will mail out another one for free.

At the moment I have the Barracuda installed as my primary drive and a 1TB Samsung SpinPoint F2 that I had lying around as the secondary drive in the RAID array. Getting it all set up was much faster than I had anticipated, the caddies are very easy to remove and install and the NAS unit auto detected the second drive and began synchronising them instantly. Although I will always keep the mirroring enabled you can also set up the drives in RAID0 which is a pretty nifty feature.

While I am very impressed with this, I am having a rather strange bottleneck. I hooked my PC up straight to the NAS via Gigabit Ethernet but the write speeds were not exceeding 18MB/s. The read speeds seem to be fine as I was able to read from the drive at around 40MB/s (which is normal for the hard drive I was copying to), but the write speeds are very inconvenient when copying large amounts of data as I have been doing over the past 24 hours.

If anyone has any idea what may be causing this bottleneck or how I can fix it please contact me, it would be much appreciated.

In case you are not aware of who Gutrot is he is the infamous troll warrior who levelled all the way to 80 (as of 26/09/2009) without any gear, last night on the Aerie Peak server hundreds of people rolled new troll characters, removed the gear they are given when created and ran to the brewfest area in Durotar awaiting for Gutrot to arrive and finally hit level 80, at which point an unbelievable amount of spam started (as you will see in the video), in all the time I have played World of Warcraft I have never seen anything like it!

After he hit 80 and the spam started to cool down everyone charged towards the Zeppelin and headed to Stranglethorn Vale and proceeded up to Stormwind, it is the first time I have ever seen hundreds of naked trolls try to raid Stormwind…

As you can imagine they didn’t get very far as a large amount of alliance just camped the entrance and killed all the lowbies as they came through. Check out the compilation video below of some of last night’s footage