Guess it may have been something to do with my Mac mini because I rebooted it and all of a sudden everything started moving and I am getting about 56 MB/sec transfers to the NAS from it. Thank you all for your help with this.

So I am still having an issue with this, but I am not sure what is going on now as I have eliminated the network, and the pi as being the issue... maybe it now has to do with the source drive which makes no sense to me. Results of commands on the Pi $ sudo lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOI...

Nope. That's the limit of my knowledge I'm afraid. Any joy with the quirks? I think the 'u' parameter is to turn off UAS access, which may get it to work better for some unsupported drives. Some drives are automatically blacklisted for UAS, so the 't' parameter marks them as ok to use UAS, AIUI. Th...

A little Google suggested that LVM logical volumes can also be found at /dev/mapper/XXXX where XXXX related to your volume group. That might also be worth a try with hdparm. But I'm only suggesting using hdparm -t to get a local read performance of your HDD without the network affecting it. I have ...

That makes more sense. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with LVM to say how to use hdparm with it, or whether hdparm does work with it (some google fu required). If you've tried adding: usb-storage.quirks=0bc2:3322:u to cmdline.txt and rebooting, another option would be to try: usb-storage.qu...

I took /dev/sda from your second post "sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda". I assumed it would be partitioned and formatted so that /dev/sda1 would exist. If /dev/sda1 is not correct, please substitute for the device name of a suitable partition on your 5TB HDD. Edit: It appears to be a SEAGATE HDD. So I assu...

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Edit: It appears to be a SEAGATE HDD. So I assume it was just a simple mistake to describe it as a Western Digital HDD?

All I know is that the enclosure it's in is branded as a WD.

I took /dev/sda from your second post "sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda". I assumed it would be partitioned and formatted so that /dev/sda1 would exist. If /dev/sda1 is not correct, please substitute for the device name of a suitable partition on your 5TB HDD. Maybe this might help... Looks like the partiti...

Those are subtly different commands to the ones I asked for. Sorry about that, here is what I get when I run the commands you asked for, I was just thinking I may give you a little more info to see if maybe that would help. This is for an instance of OMV I have installed on the Raspian Lite OS, if ...

What is the output of lsusb and sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda1 So I put a powered USB3 hub on it, thinking maybe it it was just under powered, that stoped the Pi from booting completely so I removed the power and it boots. After it boots I plug the power back in and it operates normally. But I am still g...

Have you tried plugging it in to one of the USB2 ports to see if it's faster? Yes and no it’s not faster at all... I ran iperf -s on the computer I am transferring data from and iperf -c on the pi got 851 Mbits/sec so obviously the Gbit speeds are there. I even ran a few tests on the pi to the Hard...

So, I am running into a bit of an issue... maybe someone can help me out. I decided to use my Raspberry Pi 4m, with 4 GB of ram running the latest Raspian Lite image as of (4/22/2020), as a NAS for my Media server. I wasn't expecting it to be super fast but right now I have a 5TB Western Digital USB...