On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 21:55:17 -0700 [email protected] dijo: >If I read this and your previous posts correctly - it seems to me that >your problem is not the speed of your discs or speed of the connection >to them - but the fact that your disks or disc array go to the power >saving mode or are unmounted by external usb storage timeout.
Not true. Even when the drives are spinning (I see the lights dancing on the front of the enclosure, and I can hear them clucking and clattering), if I use the file manager to move files around I have lengthy wait times. I don't know if they ever go into power saving mode, and I've never noticed that they were not mounted. Second point: The DAS (two WD red drives) is backed up to a Synology NAS (also two WD red drives). But I can and sometimes do access the Synology with the GUI file manager. And it's not the fault of the file manager - I have five different ones installed and they act the same. If I drag a file from the Synology to put it in a different place on the Synology I still have a wait time. Now, I don't care so much about the slow speed of the Synology because I don't access it directly much; it's function is to back up the DAS which it does at night while I'm asleep, so I don't care how long it takes. I definitely intend to go with DAS using NVMe drives over Thunderbolt 3. It's probably going to cost me over $3K, but I'm tired of waiting for drives to finish writing. _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
