Hi,

I own a Asus wl 500g deluxe that I want to use for mp3 and dvd storage.
I want to use my XBOX as media center.

I aim to use Samba to read the files from the XBOX.
I will use FTP to copy the files to the HDD from my PC.

I have used the disk (32 GB FAT32 / 120 GB Ext3) but the read speed (from Asus-HDD to Xbox) is about 1 MByte/sec, while the FTP speed from PC to Asus-HDD is about 10 MByte/sec.

I have toe following questions:

  1. What is the best way to partition the HDD (Using Samba from PC is not required)?
  2. Does the speed from FAT32 differ from Ext3 (or Ext2)?
  3. Does mounting to /opt give better performance (instead of default /tmp/hardisk)?


Please help me?

JB