Replying to my own post with a partial solution. I reformatted the disk from NTFS to FAT32 and both read and write speeds are now about 6 minutes for 1 GB - a big improvement, but still not great (3 times as fast as the NTFS write speed but still only about 1/10 the speed of connecting to a USB port on my computer).
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:49:22 +0200 Shlomo Solomon <shl...@the-solomons.net> wrote: > I forgot to mention that the connection to the NAS disk is via SAMBA. > > On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:43:16 +0200 > Shlomo Solomon <shl...@the-solomons.net> wrote: > > > This is OT, but I'm out of my depth here so I hope someone can help, > > or at least explain my problem. > > > > I have a D-Link DSL-2760U router provided by Bezeq. It has 2 USB > > ports so I decided to setup a sort of home-made NAS to provide disk > > space for my home network. > > > > I connected a WD USB disk (1 TB) and tried copying files to and from > > the disk. I didn't expect lightning speed, but was surprised by how > > slow everything is. > > > > Here are some numbers: > > > > I tested the disk connected to a USB port on my computer and was > > able to read or write a 1 GB file in about 40 seconds. > > > > After connecting the disk to the router, the speeds are: > > > > reading 1 GB - 9 minutes > > writing 1 GB - 18 minutes > > > > I can understand some loss of speed, but this doesn't seem logical. > > > > I should probably mention that the disk is formated NTFS because the > > router only supports NTFS and FAT32. The test were all done on my > > Mandriva 2011.0 system. > > > > What am I missing and/or doing wrong? > > > > > -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by Claws Mail 3.7.9 - KDE 4.6.5 - LINUX Mandriva 2011.0 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
