Over the years I have purchase a couple of the low cost USB NAS solutions
that Linksys has come out with. These units use an ARM processor and a mini
linux kernel. For the most part they work but, they are slow and if  I try
to un-tar a file on the unit back to itself it will lock up. I thought I'd
move the drives to OpenFiler and away from the ARM processor. I setup
OpenFiler, configured it with a multiport USB card and connected a new drive
to it. Then I started moving files to it, the performance was below the
charts. The ARM units were typically twice as fast as OpenFiler. The
OpenFiler system was practically idle from what I could see in top,
accessing the drive from the system had some issues as well.

Does anyone have any experience with OpenFiler and USB drives or performance
tuning it?

Thanks
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