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
