7. Read Performance

NAS read performance more truly represents what the actual device is capable of, since caching generally doesn't have any effect. Figure 11 shows excellent read performance with a 100Mbps Ethernet connection, running between 8,000 and 10,000 kBytes/sec for a wide range of record and file sizes. Note that the vertical scale in both figures is reduced by more than an order of magnitude from the write plots.

Figure 11: ReadyNAS NV Read performance - 100Mbps
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Figures 12 shows that the NV can make good use of its gigabit Ethernet option. Note the slightly greater than 4X change in the Y axis scale and peak read speeds above 35,000 kBytes/sec.

Figure 12: ReadyNAS NV Read performance - 1 Gbps
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Since the NV doesn't implement jumbo frames for when being read from, I'm not going to bother showing plots for the 4K and 9k Jumbo frame tests.