BT Smart Hub 2 USB port

[naylor2006]

Yeah I was agreeing with you.

[Earthling]

It wouldn't seem to be  a cable issue guys as I can plug this new drive into ports on an old Win 10 PC or on a 2yr old Lafite laptop without any issues at all.   However it clearly isn't going to work with the SH2 so I'll find other uses for it.

Really appreciate all the efforts to help guys, shame no one was able to resolve it.

[Earthling]

For the benefit of anyone else having trouble attaching an SSD to the Smart Hub 2 the solution in this case was simply to reformat the drive as NTFS.  Seems the USB port on the SH2 can't cope with exFAT.

[WSH]

That is unusual.  Useful info.

The reason drives default to exFAT is because it is pretty universal.  It’s usually NTFS that’s the problem, as it is specific to Windows systems.  A strange one indeed.

Glad you got it sorted.  What's the transfer speed like?

[Earthling]

As expected, transfer speed is pretty dismal, writing about 50+ Mbps in, reading about 220Mbps out.  It would be better if I could improve on that but the best thing is that the SSD is always available to any system on the LAN.

[WSH]

So, at 50Mb/s write speed, that's about 80 minutes for a 30 GB file then.  Look on the bright-side, it's a significant improvement on the 2 hours you quoted at the start.

Edit:  That is assuming it's writing continuously, of course.

[naylor2006]

@Earthling said:

For the benefit of anyone else having trouble attaching an SSD to the Smart Hub 2 the solution in this case was simply to reformat the drive as NTFS.  Seems the USB port on the SH2 can't cope with exFAT.

I'm annoyed at myself, I have a draft saying,  "I assume you've tried different formatting types".....I must have got distracted and actually as @WSH said, you'd be forgiven for thing that EXFAT would be the one that worked and not NTFS, on the other hand given that SMB is native to Windows and the hubs supports this, maybe it does make sense.

Thanks for following up though, im sure someone else will come across this post at some point.

[Earthling]

I'm annoyed at myself too.  I got that 50Mbps from File  Explorer just copying  a large file from the PC, but I'm now partway through a more meaningful test - writing a system image of my laptop to the SSD and it's writing at about 120Mbps over a wifi connection.  That's more like it!

and now up to 160Mbps, probably not much over half an hour to complete 🙂

[WSH]

Excellent!  That's better.