01-10-2018, 10:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-10-2018, 10:11 PM by thewonderer.)
(01-10-2018, 06:09 AM)Luke Wrote: Hi, not sure what sort of performance you will get out of that WD drive. I managed to saturate the GbE using a barracuda 2TB drive, with read and write speeds holding stable in the ~90 MB/s region. I wouldn't expect that WD drive to perform quite as well, but then again you should ask yourself if you really need that sort of performance from your NAS on a daily basis. Perhaps the ~65-75MB/s transfer speeds (thats what I get from my regular WB 2.5" drive) will be enough for you and your use-case.
Thanks Luke.
My NAS will be cruising most of the time, just on the odd occasion when I want to copy something to or from it from my QNAP, I just want the performance to be an improvement over my Banana Pi 2 SATA performance of 35MB/s. Having read some posts about JMicron controllers being the best of Armbian, but wanting to buy an off the shelf 2.5 " USB portable drive rather than separate case and drive, I wanted to be sure they perform well.
PS Not sure whether this should have been posted in the Hardware section of the forum. Happy to move it.