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Hi,

first of all i want to thank the FVDW - Team for the Firmware and all the afford!!

I decided to replace my 1TB Harddisk on my Lacie Network Space 2 with a 2 TB Hard Disk. And i thought when i have to disassemble the NAS anyway why not
install the FVDW-Firmware. With help of the FVDW-SL-Console i was able to install the new firmware on the emtpy Harddisk.
But after some speed tests i noticed that Write and Read Speeds are way lower then before.
The NAS in on a Gigabit LAN and with the new firmwarer 16.0 i just reach
Writing about 15 MB/s
Reading about 30 MB/s.

With the original Lacie Firmware i reach
Writing about 30 MB/s
Reading about 48 MB/s

For testing i use a 1.7 GB MKV-File.

I thought well maybe it's the new Harddisk. So i was able to clone the 1TB to the 2TB Harddisk and running with orginal Firmware again. And again i had the better speeds.

I thought with the new firmware i will even have better speeds. some here at the board reported way better speeds then mine with the fdvw firmware.
Did i something wrong maybe? i tried to deactivate all services i used, like twonky,webdav,cron & usb spindown service. but no changes at the speeds.

My Installation:
Delete all Partitions on the 2 TB Harddisk.
Run the fdvdw-sl console. Chose Action/Standalone Kernel and Load
Chose the UImage-nwsp2
Choose that my nas not support more then 2 tb and that i have i harddisk not bigger then 2 TB so i didnt change uboot or something(to gpt).
then i updated to 15.3 and then 16.0 via web interface.

I would really appreciate help, because i love the fvdw firmware and all the possibilities that comes with it, and i can't believe that the speeds with the terrible lacie firmware are better then with fvdw.

greetings

I read that because of kernel 3-series overhead on the CPU, transfer speed was actually lower using fvdw with default settings. As I was told, try an FTP connection as this has less overhead than Samba or AFP.

Thank you very much for your answer.

i managed to root the original lacie firmware, to get at least some basic additonal stuff.
it's a pity. the firmware has really some nice features, but lacks the most important feature. speed.
when transfering some 3d mkv's for example, difference of 15 or 30 mb's matters actually. at least for me.
have to mention. when i installed twonky 7 on original firmware instead of twonky 6, i suffered immediatly a speed loss around 5mb/s.
so even "small" changes seemes to have an pretty much huge impact on the speed.

I could release a version based on the old 2.6 kernel. That will be faster but some newer applications might not work.