October 30, 201015 yr Hi everyone I have a rig whose specs you can see in mys signature recently i thought that i maybe could preclear an HD on my laptop. so i put the same usb stick into the laptop and i noticed that unraid loads at least 5 times faster on the laptop (probably even faster than that). and this is not a state of the art laptop. it is a $300 netbook (CPU:Intel Atom @ 1.60Ghz, ram: 1Gb DDR2@266Mhz). Up to now i thought that unraid is just slow to load, but this is the case only in my unraid rig. I dont really mind the statup time (although it is quite annoying when i am testing stuff and need to restar) but i think it might be slow in other aspects too. Does anyone have a possible explanation why there is such big difference?
October 31, 201015 yr Hi everyone I have a rig whose specs you can see in mys signature recently i thought that i maybe could preclear an HD on my laptop. so i put the same usb stick into the laptop and i noticed that unraid loads at least 5 times faster on the laptop (probably even faster than that). and this is not a state of the art laptop. it is a $300 netbook (CPU:Intel Atom @ 1.60Ghz, ram: 1Gb DDR2@266Mhz). Up to now i thought that unraid is just slow to load, but this is the case only in my unraid rig. I dont really mind the statup time (although it is quite annoying when i am testing stuff and need to restar) but i think it might be slow in other aspects too. Does anyone have a possible explanation why there is such big difference? Yes, your BIOs on your unRAID server might be set to have the USB port at 1.0 speeds (they call it high speed) rather than full speed (USB 2.0) Other than that, it is entirely a motherboard BIOS thing. See it there is an update for your motherboard. Joe L.
October 31, 201015 yr Author Joe, you answered faster than some people do when i speak to them Well my mobo is supposed to have usb 2.0. i just checked and couldn't find anything in the bios regarding usb (except for enabling usb controller and legacy support). is there a bash command i can issue to check usb mode?
October 31, 201015 yr Joe, you answered faster than some people do when i speak to them Well my mobo is supposed to have usb 2.0. i just checked and couldn't find anything in the bios regarding usb (except for enabling usb controller and legacy support). is there a bash command i can issue to check usb mode? I'm not familiar with what to even look for... As I said, it is a BIOS issue. Did you enable legacy support? (They might translate that into using the slower speed to handle legacy devices)
October 31, 201015 yr Author I'm not familiar with what to even look for... As I said, it is a BIOS issue. Did you enable legacy support? (They might translate that into using the slower speed to handle legacy devices) it was enabled, when i disabled it it wouldnt even see the usb stick (although it is a fairly new usb 2 stick) I will trying to find the command that shows if i have usb 1 or 2 to verify if this is my problem (although if it is, it is a bios thing, as you said, and i cant do much since i have the last available version).
October 31, 201015 yr Some older motherboards have a mix of USB 2.0 and USB 1.0 ports. Check the specs on your mobo, and make sure you're plugged into a 2.0 port.
October 31, 201015 yr Author Some older motherboards have a mix of USB 2.0 and USB 1.0 ports. Check the specs on your mobo, and make sure you're plugged into a 2.0 port. i checked that and it seems that all ports are supposedly usb 2.0...
October 31, 201015 yr I don't have any advice that I can offer, but I was astounded at the increased loading speed when I moved unRAID from my old A8N-E mobo to my new Intel DH55TC/i3-530 system.
October 31, 201015 yr Even on USB2 ports, there's a wide variety of speeds. I think the fastest boot I've seen was on a Vostro 230. Every other USB2 system I've booted on has taken 2-3x as long using the same thumb drive. I do preclears on a system with USB1. THAT is a loooooooong boot.
October 31, 201015 yr what exact part is slow to boot. Is it near the start when all the dots come on the screen? If so that is a usb issue and like Joe siad in the Bios under USB controllers you should see something like high speed or full speed. Josh
October 31, 201015 yr Author what exact part is slow to boot. Is it near the start when all the dots come on the screen? If so that is a usb issue and like Joe siad in the Bios under USB controllers you should see something like high speed or full speed. Josh Exactly. The part with the dots lasts about 95 seconds and the whole thing (from power on to functional unraid) lasts about 3min. And I understand that the dots part is the part it reads from the USB, so it indicates slower read speeds. Joe is probably right, unfortunately, there is no choice in the bios about usb speed. Theoretically it should be usb 2.0. I even reset the bios and tried all possible settings but it did not help. Maybe there is something with my mobo...
October 31, 201015 yr what exact part is slow to boot. Is it near the start when all the dots come on the screen? If so that is a usb issue and like Joe siad in the Bios under USB controllers you should see something like high speed or full speed. Josh Exactly. The part with the dots lasts about 95 seconds and the whole thing (from power on to functional unraid) lasts about 3min. And I understand that the dots part is the part it reads from the USB, so it indicates slower read speeds. Joe is probably right, unfortunately, there is no choice in the bios about usb speed. Theoretically it should be usb 2.0. I even reset the bios and tried all possible settings but it did not help. Maybe there is something with my mobo... If it was usb 1.0 it would take over 5 minutes just for the "dots" (Trust me, I know... because on one MB I tried, all it had is usb 1.0. and it took a LOT longer to boot than 90 seconds.) You just have a slow USB port implementation on that MB/BIOS.
October 31, 201015 yr Author what exact part is slow to boot. Is it near the start when all the dots come on the screen? If so that is a usb issue and like Joe siad in the Bios under USB controllers you should see something like high speed or full speed. Josh Exactly. The part with the dots lasts about 95 seconds and the whole thing (from power on to functional unraid) lasts about 3min. And I understand that the dots part is the part it reads from the USB, so it indicates slower read speeds. Joe is probably right, unfortunately, there is no choice in the bios about usb speed. Theoretically it should be usb 2.0. I even reset the bios and tried all possible settings but it did not help. Maybe there is something with my mobo... If it was usb 1.0 it would take over 5 minutes just for the "dots" (Trust me, I know... because on one MB I tried, all it had is usb 1.0. and it took a LOT longer to boot than 90 seconds.) You just have a slow USB port implementation on that MB/BIOS. Well thanx everybody, at least we have an explanation. Thanx everyone for the help. PS: even though i know how fast technology progreses, it is impressive that a cheap, low-end but modern netbook (not very modern actually, i've had it for almost 2 years) is fairing better than a top-shelf mobo (at its time of course, about 4 years ago). And by the way, not that it is significant, but both mobo and netbook happen to be msi...
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