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How long should it take to backup 4.2 TB of data to a external USB attached Disk
I am running firmware 6.5.0-T338. I attached a Toshiba external 5TB hard drive to my NAS 516 rear USB 3.0 Port. The drive is formated using NTFS. Created a incremental backup job on the NAS. I st...
The external drive is a Toshiba 5TB Canvio Desktop External Hard Drive P/N hdwc250xk3j1.
According the the specs it is a USB 3.0 drive that is also USB 2.0 compable.
Here is a link to the Toshiba web site.
http://us.toshiba.com/computers/storage/desktop/canvio-desk/hdwc250xk3j1
If you download the logs, what is the date in bios_ver.log ?
/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_date
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04/16/2013
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/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_version
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4.6.5Did you see similar performance back when you were running e.g. 6.2.4?
Are you able to try a different filesystem e.g. EXT4?I don't remember the performance being this bad when using 6.2.4.
I just reformatted the drive using the NAS as NTFS.
Should I try formatting using the NAS with EXT4?
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