1807 OpenMediaVault seems to be going ok, apart from one minor issue: the speed; it's slow.
Yesterday I started copying over about 110GB of data (out of 2.1TB that needs moving onto PavNAS) from one of the desktops, and it still isn't finished, well over 24 hours later. The speed hovers around 1.5MB\s, with occasional bursts at up to 10MB\s. I'm not sure exactly what the bottleneck is: network or laptop or USB. When this transfer is over (I don't want to interrupt it and slow it further) I've got a couple of experiments to do:
Firstly, try copying data onto the harddrive that's mounted internally to the laptop in a CD drive bay adaptor; this will eliminate the USB part of the transfer.
The second part of this experiment is then transferring data from that internal drive to one of the USB-connected drives. This should eliminate the network portion of the transfer… but since I am controlling all this from another computer on the network via the browser interface, does the data have to go via that machine…?
I've also done a bit more digging and found that I can actually attach an external harddrive with existing data on it and mount that in OMV (though the instructions have filled another page…)
So, the other experiment will be to transfer from that mounted external drive onto the laptop. Again, this will be via USB, so we'll see what data transfer rate we get.
During this research, I've stumbled upon people talking about transferring data using the command line, but I've kinda glossed over that as I don't really want to go there. I remember well the days of copying files & directories around in MS-DOS… and how much easier it was to do in Windows 3.1. I'll see how the experiments go, and then decide if I need to learn some terminal commands…
…but maybe Midnight Commander is the way to go?
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Trying the first experiment: copying data across the network to one of the laptop's internal harddrive.
Same speed: ~1 and a bit MB\s. Although this is lots of much smaller files, which probably affects things; I really ought to be doing these tests with the same data, but I can't be arsed to copy the same stuff more than once.
