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Slow write from usb to readynas duo
So I have a lot of music on this external hard drive that I am putting on my readynas duo so I can stream it via firefly. the transfer rate is really slow at 500kb/sec (I was expecting 2 or 3 MB/s). ...
arjoseph wrote: Have you tried using a different USB drive to test the speed of the nas?
No, I haven't yet. Although when I plugged the external iomega drive into my windows 7 machine and copied the songs to the NAS via ethernet, it transfer from 2-3 times faster than connecting it directly (so connected directly to the NAS via USB, transfer rate was about 500mb/sec versus ~1.5kb/sec connected via USB to my windows 7 machine. I would have thought transferring the files directly to the NAS from the NAS USB would have been faster which is why I tried this first.)
Maybe this is expected but I don't understand why.
Related, my NTI shadow seems to require readynas remote application to back up correctly - no matter if I am on my LAN or somewhere else. With this in mind, In the scenario above, am I therefore transferring the files out though the internet via ReadyNas remote and then back to the NAS?
I also bought 1 GB of RAM to improve the NAS performance. (Wish I had waited to get the DUO v2 which has the faster intel chip rather this is dinky sparc chip).
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