Improvement in SMB Performance found

[namtih]

Regarding NTFS:
Try the mount option "big_writes". For me it drops the CPU usage of the NTFS-3G driver from ~35% -> ~5%. So much more CPU left for the Pi and XBMC.
http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#highcpu

Fstab example:

Code:

UUID=DA20B   /mnt/hdd   ntfs-3g   defaults,noatime,nodiratime,async,big_writes  0   0

Another option would be to get this alternative NTFS driver up and running:
http://forum.xbian.org/thread-186.html