Ok so I have setup an ext4 drive and attached, via ftp I am getting around 3.7 mb/s but only about 2 mb/s with samba. Any ideas on why samba would be so much slower?

Thanks for the feedback, i get that ext3/4 is ok when using Samba but if I want to plug the drive into my mac - say to copy the data from the exfat drive to the new ext4 then I have a problem. I will take a look athttp://osxfuse.github.io. I did read something about this being a bit unstable and pot...

Hi All, Thanks for the feedback, I no longer believe the wireless is an issue as I just tried transferring directly to the SD card rather than USB drives and I get 4mb/s which I am happy with. So it would seem that maybe the file system is the issue, I see ext4 is recommended but how can I read this...

Hi, I have read a few forums on this but wondering if I can get a definitive answer. I have 2 x external hard drives connected to the pi (USB2.0) via a powered external hub, the pi is connected to the network via a wireless N adaptor. The drives are ex-fat so I can read them on mac, pi, windows. I g...