I’d love to know how you are all getting speeds that fast with Syncthing… I have it running on a Dell PowerEdge R720 with an Xeon E5-2600 and 64GB DDR4 ECC on a 1Gbit port and never gone over 25Mb/s
I’m still waiting for my Raspberry Pi 2 to arrive but I think the best way to test the Raspberry or a Computer is to eliminate the hard dive and create a ram disk on both devices so that you can fully see what other limitations there are.
I would also test the speed with compression on and off because I have a feeling that with high speed connections the compression use too much CPU power but I will see when I am running my tests
I am very happily using syncthing with the new Rp2. It runs smoothly.
Has anyone tried syncthing on the raspberry pi 3? Does it run well?
I run it on Raspberry Pi 3. It works quite good.
The top CPU utilization peak I saw was ~18% for a moment or too. Usually, it tops to ~0.7-1%.
What is the average Transfer-Rate with an RPI3?
~2.5 Mib/s on local WLAN. External connections are limited by my ISP (I have ADSL connection, which has quite slow upload speed).
2.5Mib/s seems quite slow (around 320kB/s)… Was expect higher transfer speeds.
I’m sure he means 2.5 MB/s, because even the Raspberry Pi B+ gets 600 - 700 KB/s.
Sure I meant MiBytes/s, sorry for misspelling. Just measured by syncing a big movie file, download/upload speed is around 2.5–3 MiB/s on WLAN.
@kstep, as you’re probably aware, the Rpi3 suffers from over-heating problems. I wonder what kind of temperatures do you get with Syncthing? Do you’ve a case? Active cooling?
Thx in advance for all the info 
My RPi3 is usually ~44°C, ~50°C max. I use DIY «active cooling» with an old CPU cooler fan, which just lies on top of RPi’s case (which has a lot of holes). I thought about adding a heatsink to make it cooler, but for now, it’s good enough for me.
@Kstep, do you use an external HDD for syncthing?
Some folders are on external HDD (like photos and movies), and some folders are on SD-card (smaller files for quick exchange).
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