I’d need a windows system to put it in. The Drobo isn’t upgradable beyond stuffing more drives in it, and the laptop is an old hp craptop…
I’ve got a second desktop that’s got usb3 (drobo is usb3), so that’d probably improve things, just not by a lot (pretty sure the slowdown is in the samba share, but I need to do more testing and see where exactly the issue is), and I kinda want to keep that system free for other experiments.
Ah, if the thing has USB 3.0, then the NIC in the laptop is probably 100Mbit (lower end models had 100Mbit even if they were newer), that’s your main issue, not SMB. SMB is a TCP/IP protocol, has nothing to do with hardware implementation and has no speed limits (at least none that I’m aware of). It goes as fast as the slowest part in the chain.
I’d need a windows system to put it in. The Drobo isn’t upgradable beyond stuffing more drives in it, and the laptop is an old hp craptop…
I’ve got a second desktop that’s got usb3 (drobo is usb3), so that’d probably improve things, just not by a lot (pretty sure the slowdown is in the samba share, but I need to do more testing and see where exactly the issue is), and I kinda want to keep that system free for other experiments.
Idk, still thinking on it.
Ah, if the thing has USB 3.0, then the NIC in the laptop is probably 100Mbit (lower end models had 100Mbit even if they were newer), that’s your main issue, not SMB. SMB is a TCP/IP protocol, has nothing to do with hardware implementation and has no speed limits (at least none that I’m aware of). It goes as fast as the slowest part in the chain.