A week ago I added the following extras to SMB configuration

 

[global]
case sensitive = true
default case = lower
preserve case = true
short preserve case = true

It gave me bigger speed up than installing more RAM, cache disk and replacing slowest drive, all combined. In fact, write speed for small files increased more than 10x times.  I keep big collections of < 1Mb files on it.

 

Dixi.

I may try this when I get home today.  I wonder why that would be?  

Because Windows does not allow files 'vodka' and 'VoDka' in one folder, but Linux does. So, every time a file is sent to NAS, Samba stupidly compares its name to *everything* to make sure there are no collisions. This disables it.

Edited December 30, 20196 yr by Barafu

Set under Samba extra configuration?

Yes.

any downsides of this?

 

Well, if you use Linux or Mac client to put files with identical names on the share, then try to work with them from Windows client, only the moon spirits can tell what would happen.