New Transmission add-on thread

StephenB wrote:

Mr_B wrote: Now, that would depend on where you live, and what hookup is available to your region. I've got a 100/100 Mbit hookup, and for as far as i'm concerned it's never the drives, nor the interfaces that limit performance. The fact is the NAS has crappy throughput & CPU power. I have no idea what is more CPU intensive, USB or SATA, but the interfaces most likely put a load on the CPU, and for that reason only it might be worthwhile to play around a bit. I wish him good luck. B! 100/100 service has a throughput ceiling of 25 MB/s (200 mbs total, half up/half down) I agree that might stress a USB drive. Also, most flash drives are slower than USB hard drives - I missed the flash drive part of the original post. Tinto: -how fast is your internet service (uplink and downlink)? -If you limit the torrent bandwidth, what is the ceiling you use? -Since you only mention seeding, do you actually care about maxing the performance?

Hi!
I haven't been able to test the USB setup yet, one of my drives in the Duo failed so it's been offline since then. The good news is that instead of buying a replacement drive, I bought a new ReadyNAS Ultra. So now I will have some more power to play with, although I really liked my Duo. I'm just waiting for the drives to arrive...

To answer StephenB:
Internet service is 100 down/10 up
Bandwith limit (if I remeber correctly) 2Mbit down and 1Mbit up
Maxing performance is not my main goal, but a steady upstream would be nice. On the Duo it was very flaky, it went from maxing the cap down to 7Kb/s and up again, but that could just be the bittorrent protocol?

Gibxxi:
Can you tell me more about disabling write-cache and the other things? I had my cache-size-mb up pretty high, like 24.

Well I will start experimenting as soon as I get my new gear up running! :D