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Now let's answer the SMB versus FTP question. The previous tests used SMB.

Here are FTP transfers, both to and from, and both a 4100 and a 4000 using the same test files.

Both the 4000 and 4100 are using the same brand and model hard disks in a 4 disk RAID 5.

The 4100 has 128MB SDRAM and the 4000 only has 64MB SDRAM.

The 4100 is using OS v4.0.860 (no JVM) and the 4000 is using OS v3.4.805 (no JVM).

The same test conditions as before except as listed above and transfers being done in FTP with SmartFTP 2.0.

As you will clearly see, FTP READ transfers are significantly faster than with SMB.


SNAP 4000 RAID 5, 4 drives: Write = 4.1MB/sec, Read = 11MB/sec

SNAP 4100 RAID 5, 4 drives: Write = 4.3MB/sec, Read = 10.5MB/sec