Slow transfer speeds to network drive.

[berrence]

I have a 1TB USB 3 drive attached to the Almond+ for network storage. Transfer speeds over wireless hover around 800KB/s, never breaking 1.2MB/s. Transfer speeds over a wired connection top out at 1.5MB/s. Is this expected behavior?

All my systems are either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. I've tried on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz WiFi with full signal, and with a direct wired connection. The external is a Western Digital 'My Passport Essential SE', which seems to have no issues when directly plugged in to a computer.

[LGNilsson]

No, not at all, you should be seeing read speeds of at least 35MB/s over wired if you're using Samba.
Which firmware are you on?

[berrence]

Using Samba, freshly updated to R065.

My most recent attempt on wired started at 8MB/s before dropping back down to a steady 1.3MB/s.

I wouldn't rule out user error since I barely know what I'm doing, but I can't think of anything else that could be the problem.

[j8048188]

Can you plug the usb device directly into your computer and see what speed the transfer happens at? It could be a slow drive or a bottleneck on your computer.

[Oendaril]

There isn't too much to do "wrong" for a usb drive, as you technically just plug it in after the samba server is enabled.

Did you try ftp transfers to see what the speed is there?  Enable Ftp on the router and set your username/password into it. Then, in windows explorer enter ftp://routerip/  into the address bar and type in the username and password.  try copying a file and see what the speed is.

My USB 3.0 drive is getting 35-40mb over LAN, but only about 18mb over WLAN to a pce-ac68 so there may be some strangeness in the samba drivers still.  If i copy the file over to  my LAN box and then transfer it over WLAN I get 45mb.

[RobLewis]

What file systems are supported on attached USB drives? Are there performance differences between them?

[LGNilsson]

NTFS, FAT32, EXT3, that's it for now.
Not much that I've seen during my testing.