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downloading torrent to nas at work. controll it at home?
hi. :) when reading on NAS homepages i came to this: "Best of all, queuing of the torrents can be done over the web from a slower wireless laptop, but the actual downloading is done on the Read...
What filesystem is on the USB drive (NTFS, FAT or ext3)? NTFS is painfully slow under linux. Try using FAT or preferably ext3.
In my experience the best performance is obtained by attaching the USB drive to the NAS and doing the following:
1. Enable fast USB writes on the Duo
2. Connect the USB drive to one of the USB ports on the NAS.
3. Format the USB drive with ext3 (offers better performance and supports files > 4 GB where as FAT does not)
4. Create a backup job to transfer the desired files to the NAS.
As noted above there are a number of factors that can affect USB performance, the primary one being the type of filesystem on the USB drive (fat, ntfs, ext3, etc). On the sparc-based units, one of the developers posted this once:
The other thing to consider is that Windows cannot natively read ext3 (linux) filesystems. You'll need to install the free open-source driver from http://www.fs-driver.org/ in order to mount the drive on a Windows-based machine.
In my experience the best performance is obtained by attaching the USB drive to the NAS and doing the following:
1. Enable fast USB writes on the Duo
2. Connect the USB drive to one of the USB ports on the NAS.
3. Format the USB drive with ext3 (offers better performance and supports files > 4 GB where as FAT does not)
4. Create a backup job to transfer the desired files to the NAS.
As noted above there are a number of factors that can affect USB performance, the primary one being the type of filesystem on the USB drive (fat, ntfs, ext3, etc). On the sparc-based units, one of the developers posted this once:
NTFS = 2.5MB/s
FAT32 = 5MB/s
EXT3 = 10MB/s
EXT2 = 14MB/s
The other thing to consider is that Windows cannot natively read ext3 (linux) filesystems. You'll need to install the free open-source driver from http://www.fs-driver.org/ in order to mount the drive on a Windows-based machine.
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