NFS or SMB

suku_patel_22 · Feb 23, 2013

I have just ordered my RaspberryPi, and I plan on using it for below.

1. Connect my powered 2TB external HDD to it and make a NAS
2. Use it as a torrent client
3. Play movies on the HDD using XBMC
4. Run lightppd to share my files on the internet.

Coming to my questions
1. Would it be possible to install the distro on a separate partition one the HDD? I plan to format the HDD using ext4.
2. Will the little machine be able to handle the load of all 4 tasks?
3. Should I use NFS over SMB? I plan to access the files of the share on Linux, Windows and Android.

Please let me know your thoughts on this.

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ZachOlauson · Feb 23, 2013

suku_patel_22 said:
I have just ordered my RaspberryPi, and I plan on using it for below.

1. Connect my powered 2TB external HDD to it and make a NAS
2. Use it as a torrent client
3. Play movies on the HDD using XBMC
4. Run lightppd to share my files on the internet.

Coming to my questions
1. Would it be possible to install the distro on a separate partition one the HDD? I plan to format the HDD using ext4.
2. Will the little machine be able to handle the load of all 4 tasks?
3. Should I use NFS over SMB? I plan to access the files of the share on Linux, Windows and Android.

Please let me know your thoughts on this.

Tapatalked from Desire S running Andromadus

1: I would use a bootloader like BerryBoot to install the distro on the hard drive, I think its possible, Ive only installed on a flash drive and SD Card, but I dont see why it wouldnt work.

2. It might be able to handle it but cant say for sure. On mine I am using XBMC and streaming movies from my desktop and I am using nearly 400mb of RAM but I think the CPU load is okay.

3. Not sure on this one, I use SMB but my laptop is broken so I dont have linux running on any of my machines, but Windows and Android works just fine, and I actually use my Nexus 7 as a remote for XBMC.

Endoroid · Feb 23, 2013

ZachOlauson said:
1: I would use a bootloader like BerryBoot to install the distro on the hard drive, I think its possible, Ive only installed on a flash drive and SD Card, but I dont see why it wouldnt work.

2. It might be able to handle it but cant say for sure. On mine I am using XBMC and streaming movies from my desktop and I am using nearly 400mb of RAM but I think the CPU load is okay.

3. Not sure on this one, I use SMB but my laptop is broken so I dont have linux running on any of my machines, but Windows and Android works just fine, and I actually use my Nexus 7 as a remote for XBMC.

SMB is compatible with linux and Windows natively, however if you intend to stream HD video at all NFS would be better. My NAS uses both, NFS to stream to my pi running xbmc, and samba for windows machines/android devices. I also running a upnp server for remote streaming to my phone.

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ratchetnclank · Feb 24, 2013

Samba has slow speeds on the pi typically 7-8Mbps compared to the usual 25-40 i get from my drive.

Endoroid · Feb 24, 2013

ratchetnclank said:
Samba has slow speeds on the pi typically 7-8Mbps compared to the usual 25-40 i get from my drive.

I found samba had lag on HD vids. I still use samba on my windows and android devices, buti never stream HD to them

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stephj · Feb 24, 2013

The Pi's 'ROM/BIOS' boot code attempts to bootstrap from the SD. If there is nothing where it expects it to be it won't start.

You would need some code to transfer startup to the external hard disk.

Imanol Barba · Feb 26, 2013

AFAIK, the raspberry pi can boot partitions from an external USB drive, what it actually boots is the GPU executable which loads a kernel, then it can bootstrap an USB HDD.

For the SMB or NFS matter, NFS usually provides higher throughput than SMB, and Windows can mount NFS based hosts, I'd go for that if you plan to see some performance.

io53 · Feb 26, 2013

As said, NFS have smaller overhead than SMB. So use that if you can.

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sioxz · Mar 2, 2013

i have a Samba server and i can Stream Full HD whit no problems (maybe a littel slow in the Begining nothing more) 1TB 2.0USB HDD NTFS

instantnoodle · Mar 5, 2013

So overall NFS is better than Samba?

suku_patel_22 · Mar 6, 2013

Yes, but samba is easier to setup across platforms

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antivirtel · Mar 11, 2013

I have just a 256 MB model, and I'll use it for torrent+file share+XBMC. Which client for torrenting will you use otherwise? (transmission-daemon or rTorrent?)

suku_patel_22 · Mar 12, 2013

Not sure, whichever gives me ability to push torrents from my pc.

My pi arrives next week.

Tapatalked from Desire S running Andromadus

FBis251 · Mar 12, 2013

You should give transmission-daemon and transmission gui (transgui) a try. You can push files via the Internet if you have your port forwarding set up correctly.

I have a slightly different setup that has Apache providing ssl for transmission-daemon

EDIT

You can also set it up with transdroid on Android. I believe transdroid also works with r Torrent.

redvelociraptor · Mar 19, 2013

NFS is faster than SMB. If you are reasonably Linux-savvy, you should have no issues setting it up. I serve NFS to my Win 7 torrent box from OpenIndiana. Setting up Win7 as an NFS client is a bit more complicated.

=RV=

oribunokiyuusou · Mar 19, 2013

Endoroid said:
I found samba had lag on HD vids. I still use samba on my windows and android devices, buti never stream HD to them

I hope you're talking about megabits per second. You can get 7~8 Megabytes per second with SAMBA and you can get the full 12 megabytes (100megabits) per second with NFS, but never more than that.

In most cases, samba is enough, but I've seen two or three videos with imense video and sound quality that SAMBA simply can't keep up. NFS saves the day. The 100 megabit ethernet can be a real bottleneck though.

redvelociraptor said:
NFS is faster than SMB. If you are reasonably Linux-savvy, you should have no issues setting it up. I serve NFS to my Win 7 torrent box from OpenIndiana. Setting up Win7 as an NFS client is a bit more complicated.

=RV=

Setting up the NFS is really quite a bit of trouble for a first-timer. Windows doesn't play well you don't have the no_root_squash option on the server. After that though, all l you need is a bat script with "mount <NFS_SERVER_IP>://<SHARE>/<FOLDER> <DRIVE>:". Don't forget to enable NFS client first.

Either that or use nekodrive and dokan.

hazysight · Mar 25, 2013

sioxz said:
i have a Samba server and i can Stream Full HD whit no problems (maybe a littel slow in the Begining nothing more) 1TB 2.0USB HDD NTFS

yeah same here samba runs very smooth for my 3D/1080p movie streams.

I recommend changing up the settings(disable firewall etc) increase buffer size and overclock.

sOuLjA4eVeR · Aug 2, 2013

i prefer nfs for hd movies, there is also a windows nfs client :laugh:

rixbeck68 · Aug 19, 2013

As I read I must give a try for NFS.

Nypan sr · Aug 20, 2013

There were bechmarktests done by a user in the OpenELEC forum.
As you can see the difference isn't that great:
FTP was faster than SMB by 1.57%
NFS was faster than FTP by 5.65%
And finally NFS was faster than SMB by 7.22%

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