As you may know last week, we added HFS+ support to make our drives more Apple friendly. What we didn’t tell you is that we’ve also been working to increase our transfer speeds for NTFS drives. These upgrades make remote uploads so fast, you may not notice that your drive isn’t attached to your computer.
How fast is fast?
To answer this, we conducted tests in the Pogoplug lab, pitting the old drivers against our swift, new make. Using the Pogoplug drive application and we measured the difference in speeds for a large file and multiple small files. Here’s what we’ve found:
Test 1: Uploading a large file (4.77 GB) to an NTFS drive with the upgrade is 600% faster than before!
Test 2: Uploading 10,000 small files (ranging from 1 kb to 977 kb) is 25% faster than it was for multiple small file uploads.
So whether you’re on the go or just too lazy to move that external hard drive to where you’re sitting right now (cough, guilty), you’re all set. With the recent upgrade, writing to your NTFS drive is now more like uploading to your local drive than ever before. If you’d like to add your comments or test results in the comments below, we’d love to hear what you think!
Do you have any stats on how NTFS compares to EXT3 performance-wise on the pogoplug? I want to make sure I’m making the most of performance! Thanks.
Can you publish the times that you tested? Saying that it is xx faster, doesn’t help, if we don’t know what you are comparing it to and what the actually time transfer speed is.
Thanks,
Rich
I definitely did notice faster upload speeds, thanks for the improvement! But I’m getting download speeds (off the pogoplug) of about 190KB per second (it takes 1 hour to download a 700MB file in my tests). That’s with the pogoplug and my computer connected to the same local network, being routed by an N router. It’s too painfully slow to do any meaningful file transfer with the pogoplug.
Samba transfer speeds between two computers on my network are fast (as expected), but download speeds off the pogoplug are slow for some reason. Is it possible that the pogoplug is mistakenly uploading the files through the internet and then back into my network rather than keeping it all in my local network? Anyone else have the same problems?
Update to that first comment above:
I’m now getting transfer speeds of up to 1.2MB/sec (problem fixed). The problem *may* have been that the pogoplug was mistakenly routing through the internet, and using the web interface for the first time (after a de-register/register cycle on the pogoplug) fixed the problem for me. After registering the pogoplug and setting it up, I had used the desktop software exclusively without ever trying any transfers over the web interface…but it may be the case that you must use the web interface at least once to bonk the pogoplug in the head so that it’ll treat local-to-local file transfers appropriately.
See this thread for details:
http://www.pogoplugged.com/forum/thread/11706/Pogoplug-seems-very-very-slow-to-me.-What-transfer-speeds-are-you-guys-getting/