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Author Topic: External USB Drive  (Read 3227 times)

bohemus

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External USB Drive
« on: April 10, 2012, 10:18:12 AM »
Currently I have a 1TB external USB drive connected to the DNS-320. Its formatted in NTFS and I can read/write to it with no problems. Would I get better performance if I formatted that drive to EXT2 or EXT3 instead?
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hoppo1

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Re: External USB Drive
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2012, 12:41:12 AM »
Possibly not much though. The speed is down to hardware limitations and the spec of the device.
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bohemus

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Re: External USB Drive
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2012, 11:21:43 AM »
I used Gparted last night and formatted the external drive to EXT3 and the performance went from 9 MB/s to 20 MB/s, similar to the speed I get with the internal drives in the DNS-320. Pretty happy so far.
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