I have an AC86U with an external drive attached. It's an old 1 TB 5400rpm laptop drive in a USB3 enclosure and it's attached to the USB3 port on the router. I use it for simple storage, file transfers, and occasional media streaming. I mostly interact with it using my Windows laptops (using Explorer or FTP) or Android phones (FTP). This setup fits my simple needs very well, and I've been very happy with the AC86U. Of particular note, large file transfers are very fast, so I've been really happy about that.
But as always, transferring a large number of small files is much slower. I know that I'll never get small file speeds as high as large ones, but are there any optimizations that can be made to improve small file transfer speed? For example, should I try ext4 instead of NTFS?
Thanks for any suggestions!
But as always, transferring a large number of small files is much slower. I know that I'll never get small file speeds as high as large ones, but are there any optimizations that can be made to improve small file transfer speed? For example, should I try ext4 instead of NTFS?
Thanks for any suggestions!