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12:01 AM

@SaschaP I'm awake but not that awake....

could you link the question please? I can take a look and make some suggestions

@JourneymanGeek thanks for your answer. here is the link:
https://superuser.com/questions/1382795/
in the meantime there have been some helpully comments

Journeyman Geek

@SaschaP few things.

1) Its super broad

its 3 questions

2) quite literally any modern system can do this without breaking a sweat

and well

you have the software and the hardware....

so why not test it?

windows has enough telemetry without even additional software to tell what the bottleneck is from task manager for this

SaschaP

i don't have the SSD so far...

but i will buy one if it would be sufficient

Journeyman Geek

the USB 3.0 could be the bottleneck

SaschaP

really?

Journeyman Geek

12:05 AM

but I doubt

So two things, and I'm sure folks in the main room will politely call me an idiot if I'm wrong....

1) USB does use CPU

2) USB often sucks.

but USB in theory should handle it with no problems - you do have USB 2.0 fast ethernet adaptors

So if you would probably rescope the questions to where the bottlenecks would be, and how to locate them...

It stops being a hardware rec, and its a single question "I have this system - how do I locate and fix the bottlenecks in it?"

There's a few other things worth considering

Its unlikely to be a problem but the quality and reliability of NICs varies a lot

I've happily pushed gigabit speeds over WAN with intel NICs

and I've had really fun problems (tm) with realtek cards

SaschaP

ok, thanks. i just thought asking one question (instead of 3) based on my project offers a better overview about the problem...

referring to your proposed question title: it seems that i'm asking questions before the problem may occur and not after i observed the problem

Journeyman Geek

chances are, honestly, even with a spinning rust external drive, it should be no issue

SaschaP

what exactly is a NIC? do you mean a network information center?

is there any comparable thing in a local network?

Journeyman Geek

an NIC is a network interface card

SaschaP

aaaah, okay, now i see

Journeyman Geek

12:16 AM

now, this may seem a little odd - but one thing you need to keep in mind is, if you're passing it through a router - the router might be a bottleneck

considering these are devices you might be able to get away with just static IPs on everything and a switch

SaschaP

okay, i'll check if the built in NIC is an intel
if so, networking to/from my laptop should not be a problem, right?

static IPs are not a problem, the devices do have static IPs already

Journeyman Geek

naw

Intels are pretty much the gold standard IMO

SaschaP

okay that's fine!

so how about USB... I also noticed different behaviour of different external drives. I'm not a hardware specialist but in my mind this can only have to reasons:

1) hard drive writing speed

2) the controller

Journeyman Geek

all of the above

SaschaP

haha, ok

Journeyman Geek

12:20 AM

USB can be finicky

SaschaP

so it would be better to find an external hard drive (SSD) with manufacturer-independent benchmarks to assure that the hard drive fits my performance requiremens, than using any case with a brand new high-speed SSD, right?

and to the last thing, CPU/USB-bottleneck: are there any portable NAS-like devices which can receive UDP-packets out of the box?

or is the only way to modify the built-in hard drive to a bigger one so that i don't have to send data to the USB device?

Journeyman Geek

1:01 AM

@SaschaP depends on your budget.

I half suspect modern raspberry pi or clone might meet your needs

Or a good ol nuc class machine

Orrrrr

If your PC has a CD drive...

Can stick an SSD there

But ya. Try benchmarking first

SaschaP