Any PC storage gurus?

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I find it strange that I'm able to transfer faster 100>100 than I am from 100>1000 unless the fact that I was transferring within the same subnet on the 100>100 has something to do with it.

I'd love to go direct attached, hence me wanting to turn the NAS into a big eSATA enclosure (I can't find anywhere that really spells out how to do this though.) I wish I had room for a SAN at home lol.

 

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Here's the performance chart of the network on the ESXi box...not very good at all. The transfer I was doing at that time was to local storage on the box.

I don't have a copper NIC that will work with ESXi right now so I'm going to test the NAS with copper when I get home to see if there's an issue with using the fiber connections.

 

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I think I found the problem. I've wired up the NAS device as copper and set the port speed to 100 on my switch. While talking to it from the same VLAN it transfers the 167MB file in roughly 15 seconds. While on a different VLAN it takes around 2 minutes. So I'm going to say that my Cisco 2620 is slowing things down or I don't have it setup properly.

EDIT: I've set the ethernet port on the 2620 to 100 Full. I've set the trunk port on the switch it plugs into as 100 Full. Same result, only transferring at around 2mb/sec out of VLAN, in the same VLAN its around 18-20mb/sec

EDIT 2: The Cisco 3550 is a Layer-3 Capable switch, I'm going to remove the 2620 completely and try it with just the switch.