Slow SMB to Windows 10

[badtrip]

Hello,

 

I'm getting around 40MB/s from a Seagate drive(ST31000528AS) formatted in NTFS (From my old windows server config) using Unassigned plugin.

 

/dev/sdc:
Timing cached reads:   6354 MB in  2.00 seconds = 3182.75 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 366 MB in  3.01 seconds = 121.72 MB/sec

 

Both NICs are connected to a gigabit switch. Windows computer is connected on the same switch.

 

I tried Balanced-rr and active-backup with no improvement. Did a speedtest with the speedtest plugin and got nearly 1Gbps from my gigabit internet.

 

Here's the nas hardware:

 

Q6600 @ 2.4ghz

GA-EP45-DS3R (with dual Realtek 8111C)

4GB RAM

 

I recall having slightly better performance with the same machine on Windows.

 

I'll try with a brand new 4Tb drive when it arrives.

 

Is the hardware too weak? I'm having trouble finding the issue.

 

Thanks

[RobJ]

The NTFS driver in Linux is not known for speed.  If you are running 6.2, it uses a newer version of ntfs-3g which *might* be a little faster.

[badtrip]

It would be great if it's only the NTFS driver. I'm gonna be transferring all the data from the ST31000528AS to the new 4Tb drive which will be part of the array.

 

Then, I'll format the old drive and put it in the array.

 

I'll report back after.

 

I'm not using any parity drive cause I don't mind the data getting lost. Should I still add an SSD cache drive?