Netgear ReadyNAS RND2110
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.
