Thunderbolt --> GbE adaptor - odd behaviour after migration

I received my rMBP last week and I had ordered the TB-->GbE adaptor. I normally would set up the machine from scratch, but I was too lazy and my MBA was perfect so I used Migration Assistant to transfer apps, documents and settings from the MBA to the rMBP. Everything was working fine until I tried the GbE adaptor.

When I first plugged it in, the rMBP took me directly to the network settings page and said it needed to initialise the new network interface. Great. Or so I thought. It correctly listed Thunderbolt Ethernet in the list of interfaces, but it stubbornly refused to accept that a cable was connected. I tried various cables and different ports on my router and nothing helped. I even tried to use the other Thunderbolt port, to no avail. I started thinking that maybe the adaptor is broken so I tried to use my old USB Ethernet adaptor on the rMBP and what do you know? It wasn't working either. Great.

I then tried both the USB and Thunderbolt adaptors on the MBA and they were working perfectly fine. I swore a bit at this stage.

Luckily, I found that you simply have to remove the USB and Thunderbolt interfaces from network settings and add them again on the rMBP. I suspect that something had gone wrong with Migration Assistant in the settings transferral. After I did that both adaptors started to work on the rMBP....

Except that my so called Thunderbolt Gigabit adaptor was only transferring at 11 MB/s to my Synology NAS, which is just over 100 megabit speed.

$%£$!!! &*^ $£^$%!!!

I then realised that it was actually still transferring over wifi , despite the Ethernet connection being on and after I disabled wifi, I got around 96 MB/s. Result.

charlieegan3 said:

and they all lived happily ever after.

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Indeed. Transferring gigabytes of stuff back and forth to my NAS has now become a pleasure.

charlieegan3 said:

i wonder if thunder bolt will become so mainstream that it is on nas boxes...

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Some of the NAS manufacturers have already announced such products. It won't be a NAS by the pure definition of what a NAS is, but we will start seeing more products like the Pegasus.

QNAP, one of the main players in the SOHO NAS market, have announced a BYOD Thunderbolt enclosure. Unfortunately it does not have hardware RAID.

I see Drobo are planning to release some TB boxes as well.

The big advantage of NAS is that it's a separate little computer and can do all sorts of things without a separate computer running. A thunderbolt enclosure cannot do this, since it needs a host computer to connect to.

In theory someone could try to create a NAS box with target disk mode via Thunderbolt.

I've recently got my Pegasus R4 and the performance is

charlieegan3 said:

i've been thinking about getting a synology box for a while. thinking about the DS112+, or 212+

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I have the 1511+ and it's a great thing. I use it to stream full size BR and DVD rips.

charlieegan3 said:

Am i right in saying that you can set up downloads on the disk station and leave them to download, without having to remain connected?

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Yes, that's right. It's a little server so it does not need a client to be connected to continue doing stuff.