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SLOW backing up to USB
Hello all! This is my first post here so forgive me if I'm asking something i did not find in the forums already. We have lots of sites with the NV+ NAS and here is our setup; ESX4 with Vrang...
mdgm wrote: There's not much you can do if you insist on using NTFS. Why do you btw? NTFS performance is terribly slow. EXT3 (used by the ReadyNAS for the internal disks), a native Linux filesystem is much quicker and for those who don't want journaling, EXT2 is quicker again.
I really want to use NTFS for this, because it will be the only storage repository for my data while I do a factory init on my NV+, and if something (else) goes wrong, I want to be able to access the data easily from a PC. I know there are ways to mount an EXT3 volume from win, but I don't see that it's worth it.
I understand you are implicating the format of the USB disk as the reason for the slow performance. How much faster would it be using EXT3? And why can a many-year-old laptop running WinXP do so much better? We're not talking about a minor speed problem here, this is severe.
Thx
-Arthur
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