2011-10-20, 13:43
abudabi Wrote:In my experience SMB is dog slow. No where close to the gigabit speeds I should be getting. Going to try NFS soon on my new oneiric box.
Whatever.
I have a Lucid box set up as a fileserver as well as full-blown NAS appliance and get upwards of 300-400Mbps throughput to each. This is with smb and FTP. BTW, FTP would be as fast, if not faster than NFS. And as has been pointed out, embed is more than fast enough for streaming video content.
At Gigabit speeds, your HDD is more likely to be thebottleneck, unless SSDs or some form of striped RAID is used. SSDs are not cheap on a per gigabyte basis, and RAIDed drives should always be backed up, because RAID is not backup.