What's causing this disk io bottleneck on my Nas

[Pa1yn]

[Applefreak]

Can you be more specific on what your problem is? Thx

[Pa1yn]

16 hours ago, Applefreak said:

Can you be more specific on what your problem is? Thx

So i have a old pentium 32bit system (DDR2) and transfer speeds with SMB are really slow while transferring files, would that graph suggest a IO bottleneck?

[jagdtigger]

1 hour ago, GougedKirby522 said:

So i have a old pentium 32bit system (DDR2) and transfer speeds with SMB are really slow while transferring files, would that graph suggest a IO bottleneck?

It shows occasional spikes which means the bottleneck is somewhere else. Check CPU usage first, that ancient pentium is pretty slow.

[heimdali]

What kinds of speeds are you getting and what kind of pentium are you using?

 

The graphic would suggest that you might be getting about 700kB/sec.  A P350 should be able to deliver at least about 30MB/sec, provided that the disk is fast enough.

 

[Pa1yn]

2 hours ago, jagdtigger said:

It shows occasional spikes which means the bottleneck is somewhere else. Check CPU usage first, that ancient pentium is pretty slow.

Could be the network interface actually

 

[jagdtigger]

6 minutes ago, GougedKirby522 said:

Could be the network interface actually

Only if its 100 mbits/s or slower.....

[Pa1yn]

1 hour ago, jagdtigger said:

Only if its 100 mbits/s or slower.....

I think it is lol, crappy tp link usb dongle

[Jarsky]

13 hours ago, GougedKirby522 said:

I think it is lol, crappy tp link usb dongle

 

Well thats probably your issue right there. 

Either upgrade the system to something from this decade, or get a proper gigabit nic that will utilise the pcie bandwidth instead of hammering your USB controller which is hosted on the south bridge on those old platforms. You want a system with integrated controllers, so basically Intel Sandy, or AMD Fusion generation CPU's, basically 2011 or later.