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I picked p a s/h Synology twin drive NAS of here, weeks back.
Set it up and copied some important but fairly small files to it.
Today I wanted to put some movies on there.
It was taking ages, it never got above 2mb/s transfer rate.
In the end I plugged a USB drive in to it.
I can't find anything online to improve things.
ANy suggestions about what might be wrong?
How are you connected to it, wired or wireless?
Wireless.
Don't do that, then?
When I first bought mine (Synology DS220j) I had no idea how underpowered they are. Makes sense when you think about it, but took best part of a week to upload about 700GB of stuff as the software indexes as it goes.
Someone cleverer than me will be along in a bit to explain how to verify it, but it's probably the processor and disk write speed that's the bottleneck rather than wireless.
Maybe.
I have a 2 bay Synology NAS and it is woefully slow, cannot use it as a music server because it is so slow. My house is wired for gigabit ethernet and I have verified the speeds throughout.
My NAS is in the loft and I had concerns that if there was a fire I would lose everything, so I bought a single bay Seagate network drive as a supplementary backup that mirrors the synology. That device is blisteringly fast compared to the Synology and I can now use that as a media server for my music.
One thing to add is that I am using the synology for CCTV, I don't know how much overhead that adds.
I have been though every fix for slow Synologys but none of them have made any difference.
I have 4 Synology NASs, one of which has about 10TB of data on it. All run at pretty much their advertised speeds, nothing funny but in any case about 80Mbs for the slowest and the fastest is at 250 I think. I would suspect that the issue is the wireless connection. Any indexing is in background. If you are really at 2Mbs then I would look at your network connections. Maybe try plugging you NAS directly into your wireless router to see if that helps. That is very unusually slow. Are you also sure you are accessing it directly on your LAN rather than via a quick connect.to link?
As above, I'd start by verifying that it's not your wifi by connecting to it over gigabit ethernet. If that solves it then it's your wifi.
The j series of Synology *are* slower than the better models, but not that slow. My old DS210j was faster than that.
You can disable the file indexing services on the Synology. Seems to make it a lot quicker.
And disable the photo server/music server if you're not using them. Or at least make sure they are set to only index specific folders.
If its running a anti virus app, scanning changes all the time can trash performance, switch the app off.
There's some settings tweeking that can make a large difference, In the link below the author had 2MBps to start with and got it upto 80MBps
My DS220 averages about 78MBps on file transfers.
There’s some settings tweeking that can make a large difference, In the link below the author had 2MBps to start with and got it upto 80MBps
Thanks but I have already seen that and my settings were already as recommended.
I can't see where the bottle neck is?
My wifi connection is a bit crap. I get 70mb/s on the desktop on an ethernet connection but laptop only gets 25 - 30 mb/s on wifi, even when standing next to the router. But that's still way more than 2mb/s!
Is there a problem with my laptop? Or is it my shit Plusnet router?
So I think the problem is the shit router.
I connected the NAS to a 4g router and got 40mb/s download speed.
When I tried a file transfer it managed 12mb/s. Still crap but more than 2.
Did you try what about 20 people have suggested?
Did you try what about 20 people have suggested?
No. It's the wireless functionality I'm interested in.
I'm surprised yo can even operate a PC, if your counting skills are an indication of your intelligence.
Even if it is the wireless you need, by connecting to a LAN you are narrowing down the problem. if it is super fast on the LAN you know you need to look at your wifi. If it is still slow on the LAN then you have an issue with the NAS
No. It’s the wireless functionality I’m interested in.
Yes, but it wasn't a proposed solution, it was a troubleshooting step. If you're going to ignore everything everyone tells you then you're wasting their time.
I’m surprised yo can even operate a PC, if your counting skills are an indication of your intelligence.
Yeah, I've only been doing this for over 30 years.
But if you're going to be an arse about it when being offered free advice then you can fix it yourself. I'm out.
Yes, but it wasn’t a proposed solution, it was a troubleshooting step
However, the trouble shooting has been achieved by using a different router.
But if you’re going to be an arse about it
To quote Basil Fawlty......
However, the trouble shooting has been achieved by using a different router
Hard-wired into a different router? If not how is that ruling out Wi-Fi as the issue?
Last time I used a cheap 2-bay Synology NAS (15TB data migration from one dev environment to another) I got about 70Mb/s average (connected via Ethernet cable) but a lot of small files were involved which kills the transfer rate - 2Mb/s (with video files) is def an issue somewhere and ruling out the WiFi is a logical first step.
Some clarity on mb/s and Mb/s from the OP would help here too.
are the file transfers rooted over the internet, rather than direct on the same lan? that will impact speed, also if you are watching streaming services at the same time...