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Title: LinkStation Pro - poor write performance
Post by: fre1621 on July 11, 2009, 08:22:57 PM

I recently pruchased a LS-XH1.0TL 1TB, LinkStation Pro. I am a bit puzzled by the performance.

I have it connected to a 1Gb switch and if I download/read a file (2GB) down from it, I get around 45Mbs, which is just blazing fast. About twice of what my older LinkStation, LS-GL320.

But the upload/write speed is about 5Mbs. That is about 1/2 the speed of my LS. And when I watch the traffic is starting and stopping, while download/read is a nice steady rate.

I am on the latest FW 1.10

I have also played with the frame size but did not see a noticable difference.

Did I get a bad unit and need to RMA?

Thanks Fred

Title: Re: LinkStation Pro - poor write performance
Post by: kevin on July 13, 2009, 02:16:15 AM

Have you tried Initializing the unit (Web interface> Maintenance> Initialization> Restore to Defaults)?

You should also try to Force Update FW, if you do this you will want to Init it using steps above after updating!

Title: Re: LinkStation Pro - poor write performance
Post by: fre1621 on July 13, 2009, 03:44:33 PM

I had already tried restoring to defaults, but did again for good measure.

Although I am running the most current FW, I flashed again but still seems the same.

I am running VISTA, but disabled my FW and AV. I will try from another PC and see if my results are the same.

Title: Re: LinkStation Pro - poor write performance
Post by: Dustrega on July 15, 2009, 08:08:03 AM

Are these multiple files or a few files totalling to 2 GB?

Title: Re: LinkStation Pro - poor write performance
Post by: fre1621 on July 15, 2009, 08:55:46 AM

This is one big file rather than a bunch of smaller ones. Although it does act like a bunch of smaller ones. When you watch the network activity you will see a lot of starting and stopping.

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