Speed Issue

[Finnman]

I just got this NAS and threw two WD Green 2tb drives in it. I did Raid Linear and Ext 2 formatting. I plugged a USB external harddrive into the NAS and am copying files by using a computer on the network to do so. I'm only getting speeds up 5kbps, and I see you mention here that you get speeds up to 20 - 25kbps. Is there some way I can better configure this to attain better speeds? Or perhaps the fact that a computer on the network is performing the copy command is making it slower? Any suggestions appreciated!

-Finn

[Finnman]

As a test I also tried cancelling my copy, and using the backup button on the NAS so I could shut down my computer and let it copy over night. It's still going, presumably at a very slow speed. Also when I navigate to the NAS from my computer I don't see any new files in any of the folders, so I wonder if it won't display them until the backup is complete?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the purpose of a NAS, I don't wanna use it for backing up (making a copy of already existing files on my PC) but rather as an external drive accessable on the network where all my original media files are stored.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

-Finn

[BadIntentions]

As a test I also tried cancelling my copy, and using the backup button on the NAS so I could shut down my computer and let it copy over night. It's still going, presumably at a very slow speed. Also when I navigate to the NAS from my computer I don't see any new files in any of the folders, so I wonder if it won't display them until the backup is complete?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the purpose of a NAS, I don't wanna use it for backing up (making a copy of already existing files on my PC) but rather as an external drive accessable on the network where all my original media files are stored.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

-Finn

External USB drives are painfully slow on this NAS. They will not perform well on any embedded device.

CIFS/Windows File Sharing/SAMBA are CPU intensive. Try enabling FTP and use an FTP client or FTP folders if you want maximum speed. I get 22 - 35MB/s with FTP.

[Finnman]

Thanks for the tip, I'll try connecting via FTP. Unfortunately I dont' have a gigabit router but I'm going to pick one up.

One other issue I've been having is with the user control. When I log into the NAS from windows 7 64, I can't change or move/delete any files that were backed up from an external drive. I've given my user account admin permissions from the web utility, but when I look at users on the NAS from windows explorer, the user I'm logged in with doesn't even appear. There's only "everyone" and "guest".

Any idea how I can resolve this? I'm currently reformatting the NAS with Raid Linear in Ext2.

Cheers!

-Finn