Hi,
just a short story about NTFS:
I had a 1TB USB drive connected to a Pi and it was using NTFS. When I transferred data via LAN I could get a speed of about 2.5 MB/s as stable top speed.
I then changed to ext4, leaving everything else the same and all of a sudden the transfer speed went up to 8-9 MB/s. As far as I know NTFS puts quite some stress on the CPU, so depending on your hardware you should really think about switching to ext4.
Finally I upgraded to Pi2 and now I have about 11 MB/s transfer rate.
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