I use owncloud and plex to host my own file server. I’m thinking of moving my work files and photos etc from Google cloud, to my own hosted server now. However, whenever I transfer files to the pi via owncloud, it is incredibly slow on my pi 3b.

I wanted to ask, will the data transfer speed be noticeably faster if I upgrade to a pi 4?

  • bobbarker4444@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I transfer files to the pi via owncloud, it is incredibly slow on my pi 3b

    Just guessing, are you using ethernet and does the Pi 3b have drives plugged in to USB?

    A big issue with the Pi 3b is that the ethernet and USB share a single channel, so if you’re writing to a USB drive then you’re bottlenecking your ethernet and vice versa.

    You could try using wifi instead of ethernet. I’ve squeezed out some extra performance in the past doing so.

    To answer your question though, the Pi 4 does remove this limitation so you should see much higher throughput than the 3b

  • jws_shadotakEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Possibly

    The bus on the pi 3 is shared between USB and ethernet, so it may be bogged down by that if you’re using an external HDD or something as storage because the USB and ethernet would fight for bandwidth.

    The pi 4 has dedicated buses for ethernet and USB separately from each other.