My cloud transfer speed using gigabit ethernet switch

junda15 · December 4, 2015, 8:01am

Hi, im using WD My Cloud connected to my

Dlink 5-Port Gigabit Easy Desktop Switch (GO-SW-5G),
2.My PC with 1gbps network card is also connected to Dlink Desktop Switch.
My router is Asus RT-AC66U,
My internet connection is 1gbps plan.
All my cables are cat 6 (able to support 1gbps).

What are the normal transfer speed for 100gb using the setup above ? im getting a maximum only 60mbps

Joerg_A · December 4, 2015, 9:56am

Hi junda15

60 mbps, megabit per second, are similar to 7.5 Megabyte per second. This is far too low for any My Cloud.
It depends on how you benchmark, but even within the Windows file copy dialogue you should get values higher than 60 Megabyte per second aka 480 mbps if copying larger files.

I did a test here in the demo network with 1-bay My Cloud and a dummy file with 100 GB file size, created from Windows commandline with “fsutil file createnew”. Here is the screenshot of the copy dialogue of Windows 10:

Sorry for German language but this Windows is German.
Calculated time should be somewhere arround 20-25 Minutes for copying 100 GB onto the My Cloud Single Bay.

The throughput graph oscillates between 60 MB/s (480 mbps) and 90 MB/s (720 mbps), average is somewhere around 75 MB/s (600 mbps).

Hope this helps.

junda15 · December 6, 2015, 9:04pm

This is above my average . is it consider slow ?

JAC70 · December 7, 2015, 12:35am

Joerg_A · December 7, 2015, 8:18am

108 MB/s within Windows copy dialog is pretty near to the maximum Gigabit speed

JAC70 · December 7, 2015, 2:02pm

Yep, I’m pretty pleased with the speed. Now if I could just get the stupid thing to stop waking up.

Joerg_A · December 7, 2015, 2:56pm

Stop talking to the unit Not meant to your personally but to the other devices in the network.

rac8006 · December 7, 2015, 3:00pm

How often does it wake up? Before version 303 I could get the Cloud to sleep from 3:30am until 3:00 am the next day. Since then it wakes up many times. Atop wakes up every 8 hours. This is my sleep for the last two days. The format is month day start sleep wake up time seconds sleep time
12 06 16:27:23 00:07:47 27623 7:40:23
12 06 00:17:59 00:30:12 733 0:12:13
12 06 00:40:24 00:40:32 8 0:00:08
12 06 00:50:44 00:57:11 387 0:06:27
12 06 01:07:23 03:00:11 6768 1:52:48
12 06 03:15:17 09:04:34 20957 5:49:17
12 06 09:14:47 09:36:08 1281 0:21:21
12 06 09:46:20 20:45:17 39537 10:58:57
12 07 20:55:29 00:30:12 12883 3:34:43
12 07 00:40:24 03:00:12 8388 2:19:48
12 07 03:15:19 03:17:11 112 0:01:52
12 07 03:27:23 06:13:48 9985 2:46:25
12 07 06:24:00 09:25:19 10879 3:01:19
12 07 09:38:35 09:53:27 892 0:14:52

RAC

curt_p · December 7, 2015, 4:12pm

I also have a similar setup on a WD My Cloud 6tb unit. I also am using cat 6 on gigabit router. I also have fiber lines running. I have everything connected during a file transfer to the cat 6 Ethernet. I am only seeing a maximum speed of 5 megabytes and an average of about 2 megabytes. I made sure nothing else was running on the network while trying about 30 large file speed test this past weekend. I have turned off the streaming support for video and apple products. I am transferring information from very fast raid 5 servers and computers using ssd drives. I need this unit to handle a minimum of 8 megabytes. Do I need to switch to something else such as the ex4 cloud?

JAC70 · December 7, 2015, 11:43pm

Heh, tough to tell right now. I broke Monitorio by trying to modify it like you had done before, but I got it wrong and the timestamps are all messed up.

if [ “$standby_enable” == “enabled” ] && [ “$sleepcount” -eq “$standby_time” ] && [ “$smartTestStatus” != “inprogress” ]; then

touch /tmp/standby

logger “Enter iow_root=$iow_root iow_datavol=$iow_datavol ior_datavol=$ior_datavol” enterStandbyTime=`date +%s`

echo “Enter standby”

sync

sleep 10

if [ “$1” == “debug” ]; then

echo "`date`: Enter standby "

dmesg -c > /dev/null

fi

for i in ${drivelist[@]}; do

hdparm -y $i >/dev/null

done

Log results:

2015-12-07T09:43:24.835899-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Enter iow_root=22176 iow_datavol=3312 ior_datavol=894426 enterStandbyTime=1449499404
2015-12-07T09:43:42.389192-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: exit standby after 1449499422 (since 2015-12-07 09:43:24.778277000 -0500)
2015-12-07T09:53:53.304284-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Enter iow_root=22176 iow_datavol=3312 ior_datavol=894426 enterStandbyTime=1449500033
2015-12-07T09:55:07.879458-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: exit standby after 1449500107 (since 2015-12-07 09:53:53.278277000 -0500)
2015-12-07T10:05:18.750060-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Enter iow_root=22392 iow_datavol=3312 ior_datavol=894426 enterStandbyTime=1449500718
2015-12-07T10:17:07.921711-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: exit standby after 1449501427 (since 2015-12-07 10:05:18.708277000 -0500)
2015-12-07T10:27:18.744185-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Enter iow_root=22392 iow_datavol=3312 ior_datavol=894426 enterStandbyTime=1449502038
2015-12-07T10:55:35.136980-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: exit standby after 1449503735 (since 2015-12-07 10:27:18.708277000 -0500)
2015-12-07T11:06:47.353620-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Enter iow_root=22608 iow_datavol=3312 ior_datavol=894442 enterStandbyTime=1449504407
2015-12-07T11:08:47.562509-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: exit standby after 1449504527 (since 2015-12-07 11:06:47.318277000 -0500)
2015-12-07T11:18:58.664783-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Enter iow_root=22608 iow_datavol=3312 ior_datavol=894442 enterStandbyTime=1449505138
2015-12-07T11:55:09.968970-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: exit standby after 1449507309 (since 2015-12-07 11:18:58.618277000 -0500)
2015-12-07T12:05:20.985338-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Enter iow_root=22864 iow_datavol=3312 ior_datavol=894442 enterStandbyTime=1449507920
2015-12-07T12:55:08.095769-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: exit standby after 1449510908 (since 2015-12-07 12:05:20.948277000 -0500)
2015-12-07T13:05:19.006354-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Enter iow_root=23080 iow_datavol=3312 ior_datavol=894442 enterStandbyTime=1449511518
2015-12-07T13:55:11.373845-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: exit standby after 1449514511 (since 2015-12-07 13:05:18.978277000 -0500)
2015-12-07T14:05:22.359916-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Enter iow_root=23296 iow_datavol=3312 ior_datavol=894442 enterStandbyTime=1449515122
2015-12-07T14:17:08.082917-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: exit standby after 1449515828 (since 2015-12-07 14:05:22.308277000 -0500)
2015-12-07T14:27:19.015181-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Enter iow_root=23296 iow_datavol=3312 ior_datavol=894442 enterStandbyTime=1449516439
2015-12-07T16:01:07.693518-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: exit standby after 1449522067 (since 2015-12-07 14:27:18.988277000 -0500)
2015-12-07T16:01:17.205636-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Rotated atop, atop_size=1942280 atop_upload_size=1260
2015-12-07T16:11:18.915353-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: Enter iow_root=23552 iow_datavol=3312 ior_datavol=894442 enterStandbyTime=1449522678
2015-12-07T18:31:18.832504-05:00 di=VerdAblNbp notice logger: exit standby after 1449531078 (since 2015-12-07 16:11:18.888277000 -0500)

rac8006 · December 7, 2015, 11:58pm

This is what I’m using currently NOtice the enterstandbyTime is on a seperate line and the special characters around the date +%s

if [ “$standby_enable” == “enabled” ] && [ “$sleepcount” -eq “$standby_time” ] && [ “$smartTestStatus” != “inprogress” ]; then
logger “Enter iow_root=$iow_root ior_root=$ior_root iow_datavol=$iow_datavol ior_datavol=$ior_datavol”
touch /tmp/standby
enterStandbyTime=date +%s
echo “Enter standby”
if [ “$1” == “debug” ]; then
echo "date: Enter standby "
dmesg -c > /dev/null
fi
for i in ${drivelist[@]}; do
hdparm -y $i >/dev/null
done

RAC

PS the special characters are missing in the output. Look at the original /usr/local/sbin/monitorio.sh file

cpt_paranoia · December 8, 2015, 1:16am

If you want pure text quotes, unmangled by the forum’s format parser, use the </> format control in the compose bar.

JAC70 · December 8, 2015, 2:51am

Thanks, I’ll make the changes.

junda15 · December 9, 2015, 8:22am

how to i make the transfer speed faster ?

junda15 · December 9, 2015, 8:24am

how do i make the transfer speed so constant ?

JAC70 · December 9, 2015, 2:36pm

Short, high quality cables combined with a quality router and 3rd-party firmware. I’ve also stripped out everything unneeded except for the Samba services.

Bennor · December 9, 2015, 2:41pm

The copying speed across a network is dependent on many factors. You can copy the same file twice and get different speed results. One almost never gets the advertised speed of wired or wireless networks. There will always be a speed hit due to PC bus speed, PC hard drive type, NAS hard drive type, fames, hard drive read/write speed, layer type, packet size, NIC connection to PC/NAS (on board or card), etc.

My cloud transfer speed using gigabit ethernet switch

if [ “$standby_enable” == “enabled” ] && [ “$sleepcount” -eq “$standby_time” ] && [ “$smartTestStatus” != “inprogress” ]; then

touch /tmp/standby

logger “Enter iow_root=$iow_root iow_datavol=$iow_datavol ior_datavol=$ior_datavol” enterStandbyTime=date +%s

echo “Enter standby”

sync

sync

sleep 10

if [ “$1” == “debug” ]; then

echo "date: Enter standby "

dmesg -c > /dev/null

fi

for i in ${drivelist[@]}; do

hdparm -y $i >/dev/null

done

logger “Enter iow_root=$iow_root iow_datavol=$iow_datavol ior_datavol=$ior_datavol” enterStandbyTime=`date +%s`

echo "`date`: Enter standby "