Samba share (1gb/s) vs local ntfs-3g transfer speed
hi all, hope this is the best forum to put this question in,
as a noob to such things, i was hoping someone could give me some advice on what should be a simple question for people in the know. I have a computer which has to be dual boot (winxp/ubuntu), and at first used a local ntfs drive for shared files both systems can read, using ntfs-3g driver in ubuntu. however i recently discorered how unbelievably slow the writing speeds are with this driver, saving a 100mb file from a 3d app takes close to 10 minutes.
my question is whether i would get faster write speeds if my shared drive sat on another machine, and my winxp/ubuntu machine mounted the drive through samba. i don't have much knowledge about how cifs/samba works (none at all really) but guess that letting a remote windows machine write to ntfs through samba might be faster. (or alternately the remote machine could be linux/etx3 and my winxp option on my dual boot machine can write to that through smb or something).
any suggestions appreciated
edit: forgot to say the lan that samba would operate on would be through a 1gb/s hub
Last edited by renderdan; 09-17-2009 at 11:35 PM.
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