WL-HDD disk transfer speed

[gerardwr]

In another thread STYNO asked:
>Any results on the speed tests yet? I'm curious about the r/w speeds when
>using Samba or FTP. Ethernet allows for a maximum of 12 MB/s, but will the >WL-HDD match this?
<snip>
>The WL-500g reaches only about 600 KB/s which is not enough to stream
>DIVX video for example.

Please find below my experience.

Using the program Filesync (www.fileware.com) to synchronise the 2.5"disk in my WL-HDD with the IDE connected 3.5"disk in my Athlon 3200+ desktop, Filesync reports the following:
- with an 11Mbs wireless connection : appr. 475MBs
- with an 100Mbs wired connection : appr. 1.1MBs

When connecting my desktop to an external USB2.0 2.5" disk Filesync reports appr. 5MBs.

[Styno]

- with an 11Mbs wireless connection : appr. 475MBs
- with an 100Mbs wired connection : appr. 1.1MBs

When connecting my desktop to an external USB2.0 2.5" disk Filesync reports appr. 5MBs.

I guess you mean 475 KiloByte/second over 11 Mega bit/second wireless connection and 1.1 MegaByte/second over wired connection. Thanks for the info.

1.1 MB/s is not much

[Oleg]

1.1 MB/s is not much

It's terrible. JockyW also reported something like this.

[petgun]

Hi,
..with the new firmware 1.1.2.8 I get a nearly constant r/w speed from the Windows Desktop ~1,6MB with the wired Network....not that much, but enough to stream. I think there is something fixed with the Samba-Server...give it a try!

cu,
peter

[pepe]

..with the new firmware 1.1.2.8 I get a nearly constant r/w speed... ...not that much, but enough to stream.

Hi petgun,

could you pls. post some more details about your setup?
I.e. mount command/options, config of the wl-hdd, image on the dbox, etc.

I just put 1.1.2.8 on my wl-hdd but as soon as I want to write somthing onto the hdd (i.e. cat > /mnt/movie/test) I'll get '-sh: cannot create /mnt/movie/test: Permission denied'.

The funny thing is that dbox->'win2k'-pc works as well as 'linux'-pc->wl-hdd.
I just can't find why the box won't play with my wl-hdd.

Cheers,
pepe

[petgun]

hi,
I get the same message if I try to write/read to the WL-HDD Share. From the Box I can mount the share, show the directory even delete a file, but no r/w operations. Please go to the Tuxbox-Forum and search for 'WL-HDD' and 'permission' and give a comment...maybe we'll get an answer. With WindowsXP everything works fine.

cu,
peter