On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:58 PM, James <jucziz6 at gmail.com> wrote: > Over the years I have purchase a couple of the low cost USB NAS solutions > that Linksys has come out with. These units use an ARM processor and a mini > linux kernel. For the most part they work but, they are slow and if I try > to un-tar a file on the unit back to itself it will lock up. I thought I'd > move the drives to OpenFiler and away from the ARM processor. I setup > OpenFiler, configured it with a multiport USB card and connected a new drive > to it. Then I started moving files to it, the performance was below the > charts. The ARM units were typically twice as fast as OpenFiler. The > OpenFiler system was practically idle from what I could see in top, > accessing the drive from the system had some issues as well. > > Does anyone have any experience with OpenFiler and USB drives or performance > tuning it? > > Thank > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > USB is going to be a bottleneck no matter what; why not crack those drives open and hook them up to a SATA/IDE interface instead? If you need to stick with USB I would check to make sure that they are operating at the full 2.0 speed. Maybe run hdparm -t on each disk and see that you're getting somewhere around 20MB/s. -- Donovan Niesen