So I found in a closet an old
$ head -5 /proc/cpuinfo
system type : Atheros AR9341 rev 1
machine : TP-LINK TL-MR3420 v2
processor : 0
cpu model : MIPS 74Kc V4.12
BogoMIPS : 266.64
and flashed
$ grep REL /etc/os-release
OPENWRT_RELEASE="OpenWrt 19.07.7 r11306-c4a6851c72"
on it, hoping to transform it a poor man's NAS, but the result is disappointing: the speed is lacking. With a plugged external hdd (ext4 fs) I get (via ethernet):
upload method | MB/s |
---|---|
scp, sftp or rsync (ssh) | 1.3 |
to rsyncd (no encryption) | 5 |
samba 3.6 | 6.7 |
One 9.4G directory that I was going to sync regularly has 326,410 files. After copying the directory to the "NAS", it now takes 22 (twenty two) minutes for rsync -a -n my_dir_on_laptop rsync://nas...
for a dry run (when no actual data is being sent). Horrified, I tried the same op between 2 laptops, each of which has the same directory, & the dry run took ~5 seconds.
Here's my question:
What device are you guys using as a NAS that
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can eat at least 10 MB/s via ssh
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doesn't contain a potato CPU & able to operate reasonably fast on directories with up to 1M small files.
I don't care about wireless.
Thanks.