January 23, 200719 yr I'm using a standard 100Mb switch and transferring 50GB at a time is slow... I was curious if it would be possible to rip movies to a drive on my PC, then plug that drive into my unRAID server via a USB 2.0 external drive interface, and transfer the data from a mounted USB 2.0 interface to the drives on the unRAID server? 480Mbps should be significantly faster than the 100Mbps switched method, shouldn't it? My only concern is that I've heard that the network isn't necessarily the bottleneck... Oz
January 24, 200719 yr Transferring via external USB hard drive is much master than the network. A bit tricky to set up if you are using a SATA system. Another alternative is to not assign the Parity disk until you have your data transfered - that way writes will not be encumbered with parity updates. Though you won't see much improvement unless you use GigE.
January 26, 200719 yr Author I'm old school and like my PATA drives very much, thank you If you could point me to a tutorial on mounting a USB 2.0 external drive to the server and then copying those files to one of the unRAID drives, that would be very cool. On a side note: Is it possible to take the parity drive offline with a command line or something? Or were you suggesting that the power be pulled from that drive during those transfers? All the best, Oz
January 26, 200719 yr I have found the NTFS driver to be PAINFULLY slow though so for NTFS stuff the network is faster.
January 26, 200719 yr Author I have found the NTFS driver to be PAINFULLY slow though so for NTFS stuff the network is faster. He he... yeah, on the way home I was actually thinking about the file sys the external drive would use. Ideally I suppose it would be better to use the reiserFS and get a win driver for reiser
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