Moving Data from QNAP to 4x 4TB USB 3.0 My Passport in Pool is too Slow

[mouzzampk]

Hi, yesterday I moved 460GB data and took 8-10 hours over 1Gbps and last night I started moving 6TB of data and still less than 40% completed. Is there anything I'm doing wrong must be as I'm really new user. If you guys can provide some solution. I'm planning to move data weekly from QNAP to DrivePool and don't want to spend hours and also keep external drives healthy. Data is only movies so I don't need any encryption if that's why making the whole move slow. Thank you

[Christopher (Drashna)]

That's a complicated question, to be honest.  Lots of moving parts. 

First, under ideal circumstances, and since gigabit networking is going to get max of 125MB/s (that's not counting protocol overhead, other communication, packet loss, signal interference/degradation, etc),  then it's going to take roughly 4-6 hours per TB of data.  More, if you have a lot of small files. Or if you have other things accessing the drives (on either system) 

 

Most likely, this is networking issue.  And if it is:

 

For the Network Adapter (in device management or "Configure" on the properties page):
Flow control: on (client and server)
"checksum" or "Offload": Off (client and server)
jumbo frames: off or default (client or server)
Green Ethernet: off (this decreases the power used, and for me seems to cause issues, Client and Server)
Interrupt Moderation: off (client and server)

run "netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=highlyrestricted" in an elevated console on Windows machine. 

 

As for the rest:
Are you using duplication? 
Are any of the drives slower than others? 

have you checked the drives for issues recently? 

 

 

6 hours ago, mouzzampk said:

yesterday I moved 460GB data and took 8-10 hours over 1Gbps

That sounds like it's taking way too long.

6 hours ago, mouzzampk said:

last night I started moving 6TB of data and still less than 40% completed

That sounds about right.  8 hours to move ~2TB of data (33%).