USB speed OK only with EXT3 and supported hdd or stick.

[synthelectric]

Hello!!!
It is official from me!
I tested both a sandisk cruzer 8GB stick and a WD 500GB, with ntfs, fat32 and... EXT3!!!
Guess what...
NTFS, Fat32 ---> max 1MB/s for the stick, max 3 MB/s for the hdd.

EXT3----> average(!!!) ----> 11MB/s stick, 22MB/s hdd.
EXT3----> lowest(!) ---> 9MB/s stick, 10MB/s hdd.

I think i can see why this is happening.. Since a version of linux is behind the firmware and since ntfs is implemented by reverse engineering (see ntfs-3g), either the ntfs module is not that great OR the overall overhead for the processor is too much.


So EXT3 and old bread (an ancient Greek saying)!

And for you who use windows (i do too but have some linux and Mac boxes sitting around) you CAN read and write with no problem with NO additional drivers. Since you access the shares through ftp | http | samba (windows networking that is) you don't see EXT3, it's transparent.

So EXT3!