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tlyczko
Jan 06, 2012Tutor
best disk format for USB backup attached to ReadyNAS Pro 2??
Have an Imation RDX USB disk enclosure attached to a ReadyNAS Pro 2, 2011 model. Presently running a backup, many thousands of small files, running very very slow...almost 20 hours to backup 120 GB...
mdgm-ntgr
Jan 12, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
EXT3 would be much quicker, but you'd need to install 3rd party drivers on your PC if you wanted to read it on that (assuming of course that your PC is running Windows not Linux).
Under System > Performance have you enable fast USB writes?
Just interested to know what firmware you're running.
Under System > Performance have you enable fast USB writes?
Just interested to know what firmware you're running.
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