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    Slow transfer/backup speeds to external USB Hard Disk (<2MB/s)

    Any suggestions what might cause this slow transfers behaviour and solutions are more than welcome! Would a fresh install of Proxmox VE be a valid solution?
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    Slow transfer/backup speeds to external USB Hard Disk (<2MB/s)

    Hi Wolfgang, I still struggle to run fio directly on to the unmounted/unpartitioned drive. Maybe something wrong in using the command. However, I have been able to do another test. I made a USB Stick with an Debian Live AMD64 GNOME ISO and started the computer running from the USB Disk (so no...
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    Slow transfer/backup speeds to external USB Hard Disk (<2MB/s)

    Hi, I have removed the partitions from the hard disk and tried the suggested change to the fio command but do not seem to get it working. Will give it another try by tommorow.
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    Slow transfer/backup speeds to external USB Hard Disk (<2MB/s)

    Hi Wolfgang, I have installed fio and run three tests arguments I found on arstechnica. The results are as follows: fio --name=random-write --ioengine=posixaio --rw=randwrite --bs=4k --size=4g --numjobs=1 --iodepth=1 --runtime=60 --time_based --end_fsync=1 which results in: Run status group...
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    Slow transfer/backup speeds to external USB Hard Disk (<2MB/s)

    Hi Wolfgang, Thanks for your reply! Tomorrow evening when I have a iittke more time, I will give fio a try. Maybe I have a misunderstanding how Proxmox operates. But it is not only rsync. For example, I tried to upload a iso file (730mb) via the gui to the attached USB Drive and it took the...
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    Slow transfer/backup speeds to external USB Hard Disk (<2MB/s)

    Hi All, I have build an energy friendly server with Proxmox VE (6.2) as virtualisation platform for our home setup (Home Automatisation, Nextcloud etc). Although, I am not a Linux specialist I have managed setting up everything so-far by following a lot of tutorials (both written en video)...