September 19, 201213 yr ive got a raspberry pi running xbmc. to make streaming HD from my unraid box easier i decided to try NFS instead of samba. i enabled it and decided to test it in windows (windows 8 actually). however when i transfer a file via NFS i get ~50MB/s as apposed to ~80MB/s on samba. now ive read that NFS has been not so good in unraid historically so im wonder if this is the fault of unraid or windows. i'll try it on xbmc but i dont really know how to test the transfer rates with it.
September 26, 201213 yr HAHA I just searched this topic, after ignoring it for the last year, because I just got my hands on a Raspberry Pi myself. So what did you find? I'm on RC8a right now but haven't turned on NFS yet.
September 26, 201213 yr ive got a raspberry pi running xbmc. to make streaming HD from my unraid box easier i decided to try NFS instead of samba. i enabled it and decided to test it in windows (windows 8 actually). however when i transfer a file via NFS i get ~50MB/s as apposed to ~80MB/s on samba. now ive read that NFS has been not so good in unraid historically so im wonder if this is the fault of unraid or windows. i'll try it on xbmc but i dont really know how to test the transfer rates with it. You'll not get much above 10 - 12 MB/s, as rasberry-pi only has a 10/100Mb/s Ethernet port. However, that is sufficient for streaming HD.
September 26, 201213 yr Joe, the real issue with the RPi is not so much the bandwidth but the cpu overhead of streaming. SMB has been shown to use ~8-10% more cpu for the same saturated link. On such a low pwoered CPU that can make the difference when streaming 1080p content. I just read the article today but for the life of my now I can't find it. But anyway that is the point of my trying to move to NFS.
September 27, 201213 yr ive got a raspberry pi running xbmc. to make streaming HD from my unraid box easier i decided to try NFS instead of samba. i enabled it and decided to test it in windows (windows 8 actually). however when i transfer a file via NFS i get ~50MB/s as apposed to ~80MB/s on samba. now ive read that NFS has been not so good in unraid historically so im wonder if this is the fault of unraid or windows. i'll try it on xbmc but i dont really know how to test the transfer rates with it. Windows has has poor NFS performance. unRAID NFS issues were not performance as such, they were disconnects and failures. AFAIK the unRAID NSF issues have been fixed.
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