Samba failures

[ricostuart]

Hi all,

I have the rt-ac68u running, and I have had a 250gb usb2 drive plugged in for a while and working well. Kept running out of space, so I bought a 2tb usb3 desktop drive. Unfortunately it now runs ridiculously slow. So i moved the cable to the usb2 slot and it runs much better.

I have disabled usb3 interference already, and it is formatted to ntfs (have tried ext3 and ext4).

I also get a lot of disconnection problems, where the router just stops responding when lots of data is being transfered (eg when putting all the data onto the new drive from my old nas, or when doing a timemachine). The only way to get it working is to turn off the router and turn it on again. Samba seems to panic or something with large data transfers.

Can anyone suggest why this might be happening? I did purchase a different usb3 external drive, and had the exact same experience. Could it be a fault with the router itself?

I have installed the latest merlin firmware 374.43_2.

 

[RMerlin]

Quite often, disconnections occurring under load are caused by either the router not having enough power (make sure your HD is the type that draws power from an AC adaptor and not through the USB port), or a bad/cheap USB cable (seen at least one USB 3.0 user who resolved his issue by using a different USB cable).

 

[ricostuart]

Quite often, disconnections occurring under load are caused by either the router not having enough power (make sure your HD is the type that draws power from an AC adaptor and not through the USB port), or a bad/cheap USB cable (seen at least one USB 3.0 user who resolved his issue by using a different USB cable).

The 250Gb was self powered and worked well, but the 2TB external drive is externally powered via a brick. The current one in use is a WD unit with a fairly chunky USB3 cable. The other drive i bought to try was a seagate unit with the same style of proprietory usb cable. Neither worked right.

I have decided to give DD-WRT ago, and now thats fully installed, the drive is working extremly well via the USB3 port. Everything works well now, except the ability to do a time machine backup. But cant have everything. Love to go back to merlin firmware, but not until it actually works as a nas unit too.