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Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites?

From ray carter <ray@zianet.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites?
Date 2015-08-02 18:53 +0000
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On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 12:06:17 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 09:48:30 +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
> 
>>Here are some results I have for data transfer speeds across a network
>>with a variety of hardware.  I'm afraid its in Dokuwiki internal text
>>format but it's fairly understandable I think (an advantage of
>>Dokuwiki):-
>>
>>
>>======Speed Tests======
>>
>>These were done when I got a new 3Tb disk for backups to investigate the
>>relative speeds of copying files across the network.  All the tests were
>>done __from__ //chris// to the named destination.
>>
>>The //cp// column is for copying to an nfs mount, or in the case of
>>//chris// to a local filesystem.  Similarly for the //rsync to nfs//
>>column for destination //chris// the copy is to a local filesystem.
>>
>>The USB 2.0 disk was in all cases my 750Gb eSata/USB drive with ext3
>>filesystem except for one set of tests to raspberrypi with NTFS
>>filesystem.
>>
>>
>>^  Destination  ^  Hardware    ^  Disk drive   ^  Connection   ^ 
>>Bandwidth  ^  cp         ^ rsync to nfs  ^ rsync direct  ^ rsync daemon 
>>^ comments                            ^ |  acer-aspire  | Intel Atom   |
>> Internal     |  100Mbs       |     94 Mb/s |   11.4 MB/s |     10.8
>>MB/s |     11.3 Mb/s |               | Limited wholly by connection
>>speed  | | :::           | :::          | :::           |  WiFi        
>>|     22 Mb/s |    2.7 MB/s |      2.6 MB/s |      2.8 Mb/s |           
>>   | :::                                 | | :::           | :::        
>> |  USB 2.0      |  100Mbs       |     94 Mb/s |   11.6 MB/s |     10.4
>>MB/s |     11.1 Mb/s |               | :::                              
>>  | | :::           | :::          | :::           |  WiFi         |    
>>22 Mb/s |    2.6 MB/s |      2.6 MB/s |      2.8 Mb/s |               |
>>:::                                 | |  chris        | Intel I3     | 
>>Sata II      |  Same drive   |   3000 Mb/s |  108.1 MB/s |     63.9 MB/s
>>|     71.4 MB/s |               |                                     |
>>| :::           | :::          | :::           |  Other drive  | :::    
>>    |  357.1 MB/s |     61.0 MB/s |    121.6 MB/s |               | ::: 
>>                               | |  backup       | WD My Cloud  | 
>>Internal     |  1000Mb/s     |    346 Mb/s |   10.4 MB/s |      9.6 MB/s
>>|      1.4 MB/s |               | Mostly limited by processor speed   |
>>| :::           | :::          |  USB 2.0      | :::           | :::    
>>    |    8.7 MB/s |      8.3 MB/s |      1.4 MB/s |               | ::: 
>>                               | |  beaglebone   | Arm          |  SD
>>Memory    |  100Mb/s      |  94Mb/s     |    7.6 MB/s |      7.3 MB/s | 
>>    8.0 MB/s |               | Mostly limited by connection speed  | |
>>:::           | :::          |  USB 2.0 ext3 | :::           | :::      
>>  |   10.8 MB/s |     10.7 MB/s |      4.2 MB/s |               | :::   
>>                             | |  D-Link NAS   | Arm          |  Sata II
>>     |  1000Mb/s     |             |    37.9MB/s |     37.0 MB/s |     
>>4.6 MB/s |      21.2MB/s |                                     | | 
>>raspberrypi  | Arm          |  USB 2.0 NTFS |  100Mb/s      |     92
>>Mb/s |    2.4 MB/s |      2.5 MB/s |      1.8 MB/s |               |    
>>                                | | :::           | :::          |  USB
>>2.0 ext3 | :::           | :::         |    7.9 MB/s |      5.4 MB/s |  
>>   3.6 MB/s |               | :::                                 | | 
>>revo         | Intel Atom   |  Internal     |  1000Mb/s     |    911
>>Mb/s |   50.7 MB/s |     38.7 MB/s |     10.6 MB/s |               |
>>Processor limited but quite good    | | :::           | :::          | 
>>USB 2.0      | :::           | :::         |   28.9 MB/s |     25.0 MB/s
>>|     10.8 MB/s |               | :::                                 |
>>| :::           | :::          |  eSata        | :::           | :::    
>>    |   51.9 MB/s |     45.8 MB/s |     10.7 MB/s |               | ::: 
>>                               | |  test         | Intel quad   | 
>>Internal     |  1000Mb/s     |    850 Mb/s |   80.3 MB/s |     56.3 MB/s
>>|     66.4 MB/s |               |                                     |
>>| :::           | :::          |  USB 2.0 ††   | :::           
| :::    
>>    |   84.6 MB/s |     46.5 MB/s |     44.2 MB/s |               | ::: 
>>                               |
>>| :::           | :::          |  eSata        | :::           | :::    
>>    |   79.6 MB/s |     52.8 MB/s |     69.7 MB/s |               |     
>>                               | |  vigor        | Router USB   |  USB
>>2.0      |  1000Mb/s     |             |             |               |  
>>            |               |                                     |
>>
>>
>>†† Results for the USB 2.0 drive on the //test// machine were **very**
>>variable, by a factor of up to 3:1 between best and worst cases, I've
>>listed about the best speeds obtained.
> 
> I assume I could use my current computer and change the download drive
> to a USB drive and see how the speeds would change.
> At times I do have 2 connections transferring at 400 K Bytes/s.

The built in network connector on the PIs also runs off the USB, so you 
might want to try it with a USB network interface and check they're on 
the same controller.

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Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-08-01 16:46 -0400
  Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? "A. Dumas" <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2015-08-02 02:26 +0200
    Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-08-03 22:21 +0100
      Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-04 07:40 +0100
      Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-08-04 07:49 +0100
        Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-08-04 20:29 +0100
        Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-08-04 20:30 +0100
          Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-08-05 08:16 +0100
  Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-02 01:40 +0100
    Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? cl@isbd.net - 2015-08-02 09:48 +0100
      Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-08-02 12:06 -0400
        Re: Would a Raspberry Pi work for file sharing web sites? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-08-02 18:53 +0000

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