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Plug it in to your pc, set the pc and ts on the same ip shceme and test some files. See how the terastation does.
A 25 meg file takes to 2.6 min. to write and 30.22 sec. to read. The same file on a linkstation takes 12.45 sec. to write and 31.98 sec. to read
Hmm, ouch. I would try going into the interface, choose maintenance, then initialization and restore the unit. It will not delete the data.
I tried your suggestion. 3.6 min write, 40.45 read.
Did you try a different ethernet cable? Othere than that... You could try formating it. You could be right, something may be going wrong physically with the unit.
Turned out to be a bad cable.
Thats good to hear.