OT - network speed problem

[Shlomo Solomon]

Replying to my own post with a partial solution.

I reformatted the disk from NTFS to FAT32 and both read and write speeds
are now about 6 minutes for 1 GB - a big improvement, but still not
great (3 times as fast as the NTFS write speed but still only about 1/10
the speed of connecting to a USB port on my computer).

On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:49:22 +0200
Shlomo Solomon <shlomo at the-solomons.net> wrote:

> I forgot to mention that the connection to the NAS disk is via SAMBA.
> 
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:43:16 +0200
> Shlomo Solomon <shlomo at the-solomons.net> wrote:
> 
> > This is OT, but I'm out of my depth here so I hope someone can help,
> > or at least explain my problem.
> > 
> > I have a D-Link DSL-2760U router provided by Bezeq. It has 2 USB
> > ports so I decided to setup a sort of home-made NAS to provide disk
> > space for my home network.
> > 
> > I connected a WD USB disk (1 TB) and tried copying files to and from
> > the disk. I didn't expect lightning speed, but was surprised by how
> > slow everything is. 
> > 
> > Here are some numbers:
> > 
> > I tested the disk connected to a USB port on my computer and was
> > able to read or write a 1 GB file in about 40 seconds.
> > 
> > After connecting the disk to the router, the speeds are:
> > 
> > reading 1 GB - 9 minutes
> > writing 1 GB - 18 minutes 
> > 
> > I can understand some loss of speed, but this doesn't seem logical.
> > 
> > I should probably mention that the disk is formated NTFS because the
> > router only supports NTFS and FAT32. The test were all done on my
> > Mandriva 2011.0 system.
> > 
> > What am I missing and/or doing wrong?
> > 
> 
> 
> 



-- 
Shlomo Solomon
http://the-solomons.net
Sent by Claws Mail 3.7.9 - KDE 4.6.5 - LINUX Mandriva 2011.0