Mine is NTFS, you think that could be the problem?

gkreidl wrote:My HDD transfer speed is 25-27MB/sec with an ext4 formatted HDD (connected to USB).
My Samba transfer speed is about 10 MB/sec.

Thanks for your article, its really helpful to understand how it all works! However, 40KB/s is way to slow even by the standards you've described. I'd be content with ~5MB/s. Do you know why would my setup show such low results? See http://www.mikronauts.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-2-nas-experimen...

Hi all, I've got my pi2 recently to make a seedbox/streambox/whatever out of it. So I hooked up my HDD (Transcend StoreJet 25H3, USB 3.0) to use it as a NAS using samba. Setup is: HDD is connected to pi2 by usb, pi is connected to router (pretty old ASUS WL-500gP V2) by ethernet, and data is accesse...