Installing FVDW on a Seagate Personal Cloud

[Jocko]

Hi Tony,

That means your nas is also detected like a nwsp2.

There are several known bugs with the version 17.0. I suggest strongly to install the rollup patch available here: https://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2695
but after doing it you need to untar again fvdw-sl-17-0-seagate-cloud-07jun2018.tar.gz (with the rollup patch, your nas will be detected as an unknown platform after rebooting)

[TonyP]

I experienced slow file copying with both Debian and FVDW firmware/software.

Copying a 1Gb test file from NTFS formatted usb --> NAS hard drive = 14.24MB/s
Copying the same file from one location to another on the NAS hard drive = 15.07MB/s

as above, with stock firmware = 22.83MB/s, 23.57MB/s

Would this because of cpu and sata drivers ?

[fvdw]

Ntfs, especially writing is slow on fvdw-sl. This is because we use the free ntfs-3G driver. It is limited in speed by the authors (paragon). To get higher speeds you need to buy their commercial driver. But why use ntfs? That only make sense on a usb disk that you want to connect to a windows PC as well although then fat32 may also be considered uf your files have size smaller then 4 GB. Using ext4 will give much better performance.