to ensure that the test covered areas where there were no caching effects from my test computer's 512 MB of memory. (Caching is what causes the "mountain" rising out of the plot's plateau.) You can see in Figure 17 that non-cached write performance kicked in...

sizes are closer to the front. Figure 4: Write performance - NDAS mode (click on the image for a larger view) This time I know that the "mountain" rising out of the plot's plateau is due to cacheing in the Win XP test system and Office's hard drive 8 MB buffer....

with file sizes up to 1 GByte in order to ensure that the test covered areas where there were no caching effects from my test computer's 512 MB of memory. (Caching is what causes the "mountain" rising out of the plot's plateau.) But as you can see in Figure...

are smaller changes in those same areas between using 4k (Figure 9) and 9k (Figure 10) jumbo frames. But you can also see a slight rise in the light blue plateau at the right front of the Figure 10. This area is beyond the cached effect area, so indicates that...

is 12500 kBytes/sec and 125000 kBytes/sec for gigabit Figure 18 shows a 3D surface plot of the ReadyNAS 600 write performance using file sizes from 64 kBytes to 128 MBytes and record sizes from 4 kBytes to 16 MBytes. Note that the plot is oriented so that...