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Old 09-17-2009, 11:04 PM   #1
renderdan
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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.
 
Old 10-01-2009, 06:17 AM   #2
w_r_cromwell
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something else is going on...

Hi,

I have used the ntfs tools in Linux to read/write ntfs formatted drives during "rescue" operations. Something is amiss if it takes ten minutes to write that file on a locally mounted drive. Until you dig out the bottleneck... yes using the samba share over the network will be much faster in my experience. I routinely moved files between linux and Windows boxes over 10/100 ethernet and they were much faster than your experience.

Maybe you have a troublesome version of one of your software packages there. I have been personally disappointed with Ubuntu. See if there is an update for some of your software, especially for the ntfs tools.

Bill
 
  


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