December 28, 201312 yr Author Wow it would seem my cache drive could use an upgrade! I'll have to keep my eyes out for a good deal. Thank you both for your help.
December 28, 201312 yr As I noted some time ago (post #4), and dirtysanchez also mentioned above, you'd get far more consistent performance with an SSD cache drive ... especially with torrents. I'd spring for a 240GB SSD (get a Crucial or Intel) ... and you'll notice a VERY large increase in your cached read and write performance !!
December 29, 201312 yr The Samsung SSD's are also top notch. I have a 500GB Samsung EVO SSD in my gaming machine and I'm extremely pleased with it.
December 29, 201312 yr Author Well I broke down today and bought a SSD. 12 MB/s copy speeds are painful to watch! I'll update this thread with the results when the new SSD comes.
December 29, 201312 yr I suspect you'll be pleased with the results Don't forget, however, that the speed at which your source can read the data is also a bottleneck ... the SSD can't write data any faster than you can "feed" it. But I'm sure they'll be both faster and more consistent than you've been seeing. Certainly FAR faster than 12MB/s !!!
January 3, 201412 yr Author OLD RESULTS WITH SPINNING HHD (Plugins Disabled) 52 MB/s Write and 100 MB/s Read with LAN Speed Test 80 MB/s to copy a file from the server to my desktop 52 MB/s to copy a file from my desktop to the server with the cache drive enabled UPDATED RESULTS WITH SSD (Plugins Enabled) 95 MB/s Write and 110 MB/s Read with LAN Speed Test 70 MB/s to copy a file from the server to my desktop (Results are limited by older hard drive on my laptop - I got 100 MB/s with a newer laptop) 54 MB/s to copy a file from my desktop to the server with the cache drive enabled (Results are limited by older hard drive on my laptop - I got 100 MB/s with a newer laptop) UPDATED RESULTS WITH SSD (Plugins Disabled) 93 MB/s Write and 102 MB/s Read with LAN Speed Test 80 MB/s to copy a file from the server to my desktop (Results are limited by older hard drive on my laptop - I didn't test with plugins disabled on newer laptop) 55 MB/s to copy a file from my desktop to the server with the cache drive enabled (Results are limited by older hard drive on my laptop - I didn't test with plugins disabled on newer laptop)
January 3, 201412 yr Author I suspect you'll be pleased with the results Don't forget, however, that the speed at which your source can read the data is also a bottleneck ... the SSD can't write data any faster than you can "feed" it. But I'm sure they'll be both faster and more consistent than you've been seeing. Certainly FAR faster than 12MB/s !!! It would seem that my desktop hard drives are indeed a bottleneck. I tried coping a file from two of my desktops (with older hard drives) to the server with cache enabled and both where about 50ish MB/s. On my newest laptop I saw speeds at 100 MB/s.
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