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yannis_irvine
Jan 05, 2012Aspirant
Backup to USB: extrememly slow.
I have about 500Gb of data on a share on my ReadyNAS Duo, which I set up to be backed up to an external USB drive. The drive is formatted NTFS, and is USB2, so I was not expecting great performance (...
mdgm-ntgr
Jan 05, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
NTFS performance for USB drives with the Duo v1 (runs RAIDiator 4.1.x) is terrible. Connecting your NTFS drive to a PC and transferring via that would be much faster.
Alternatively you could format the drive to use EXT3 filesystem under Volumes > USB Storage in Frontview.
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Alternatively you could format the drive to use EXT3 filesystem under Volumes > USB Storage in Frontview.
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