The data is definitely being flung around the network, I can’t figure out what the USB port on the M圜loud actually does, other than allowing you a convenient way to turn another USB drive into a really slow share. Better, but still not anything near what I expect. Second method, tried today was both drives connected via USB 3.0 as they were before, but this time, the copy commanded with a hardwired machine. The laptop is quite far away from the router, and transmit rates from it to the router are slow. And based upon my discovery that the transfer is happening via the network, this makes sense. So absolute max thoughput on one port would be maybe, what, 12 MB a second?įrom the last post, where the two drives were connected via the USB ports and I was commanding the transfer wirelessly, I got the awful results already described. I don’t have a Gigabit ethernet router, I run an old WRT54G router modded with Tomato. I’ve looked at transfer speeds with two more ways of doing it. What’s the point of USB 3.0 when USB 1.0 will do? And why is anything other than pointers moving over the network when the drives are wired directly to each other? In an age where files are large and there’s a lot of them, this isn’t what I expected. Ports are forwarded, UPnP is on (ugh), etc., etc., etc. Am I in the bell curve? I could spend a lifetime doing this. Huh? How can this be? The current write speed is… wait for it… About 800 KB/sec. However, a look at firewall traffic indicates that a LOT of data is moving via the network. EDIT: I thought data would not be moving via the network with this setup. Setup is FreeFileSync, running on a wirelessly connected laptop, directing the transfer between the two drives. I’ve haven’t seen such pokey speeds since Windows/386. I think a wired USB 2.0 connection between the MyBook, a host computer and the router to the M圜loud is actually faster. Since writing via the network is slow, I thought it would be better to load the MyBook up with the data I want and then move it to the M圜loud with the USB 3.0 connection. I now have a 4TB M圜loud with a 4TB MyBook attached, and I am trying to move data from the MyBook to the M圜loud. I am astounded at how slow these drives are. Leaving the drive formatted as NTFS should get you 38-43 MB/s. at the rate of 1GB/minute… (all that copying/reading/verifying I guess).Īctully my enclosure is just a USB 3.0 docking station (I know I am cheap) with 3TB SATA 3 drive. I used the usual, mycloud app to do copying. usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci-hcd usb drive), this is consistent. So I went inside mycloud to make sure that I am connected via usb 3.0 and yep it is: The resutls were disappointing and I get like 38-42 MB/s. I can achieve usb3 drivemycloudpc 62MB/s R, 42MBs W.īut ultimately the usb drive is for backup and so did a test mycloudusb drive.
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