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Hi all hi have linux box with some USB disks attached One of those disk is a RAID box which doesn't support stand by, so I have to switch it off from time to time and that fits my need. Multiples smbd shares are set up pointing to this disk, the problem is that when I switch back on the disk...

IMHO it's not specifically a single board issue, most a file system related issue, is there a more adapted sub-forum for this ?

hdparm shows completely different informations (ext4) : sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: Timing cached reads: 1162 MB in 2.00 seconds = 581.22 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 612 MB in 3.01 seconds = 203.41 MB/sec But both iotop or copying with rsync show real world performance...

Hello I'm trying to have a performant network storage, attached to my RapsberryPI 4, in order to quickly store / retrieve my footage from my PC. I have Icy Box RD-IB3640 RAID unit which was ntfs formatted, read performance was lower compared to a simple 2.5 HDD ext4 formatted, so I decided to...

Hi all, I am setting up and H/W Raid based on Icy Box RD3640. I found over the Internet that fsck.ext4 has some specific parameters for RAID units (stripe and stride essentially), my question is : are those parameters to be specified even for HW RAID unit or just for software RAIDs ? Thank you