RT-N66U slow transfer between networked hard drives

[brente1982]

So i have 2 hard drives connected to the USB ports on my router, and when i move a file from one of them to the other the speed seems incredibly slow. Maxing out at around 6MBs. Should it be much faster than this???

 

[Nullity]

Those speeds mirror my experiences. I was also disappointed.
It's still a great router/WAP.

If you require faster speeds, setup an old computer with a gigabit ethernet card and connect those drives to the networked computer. FreeNAS may be something you should look into. I'm not sure what drives you have, but I think you could even remove them from their housing and connect the drives to the faster IDE/ATA/PATA, SATA, SCSI, etc internal hookups.

 

[infamous_pb]

I have the same exact problem also. It'll go as slow as 5-6MBs or as high as 13MBs (rare, though it usually goes around 8-10MBs). It might have something to do with USB2.0 (but it should still go faster that these speeds). I've read that if the drives are formatted as ext2/ext3, they would have faster rates, but I need to use NTFS.



I hope the newer models that have USB3.0 have faster data transfer rates (because my HDD to my router is a USB3.0 HDD). Anyone with the newer AC routers with USB3.0 confirm this?

 

[RMerlin]

I have the same exact problem also. It'll go as slow as 5-6MBs or as high as 13MBs (rare, though it usually goes around 8-10MBs). It might have something to do with USB2.0 (but it should still go faster that these speeds). I've read that if the drives are formatted as ext2/ext3, they would have faster rates, but I need to use NTFS.



I hope the newer models that have USB3.0 have faster data transfer rates (because my HDD to my router is a USB3.0 HDD). Anyone with the newer AC routers with USB3.0 confirm this?

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