Link Station Quad 4TB
Firmware: 1.11
Mac OS X 10.3.9 to 10.4.11
Connected to a 10/100/1000 base ethernet network via a Netgear 8 port Gigabit switch
Hi all,
I recently purchased and installed a 4TB LinkStation Quad, but I am finding it slow to the point of being unusable, I am afraid. The device is connected to a gigabit port on our Netgear Gigabit switch, with just me copying/reading files on a G5 Mac on the same network - also connected to a gigabit port. It takes an age to even preview what is in a folder, let alone actually open any of the contents.
A folder which took just a few minutes to copy to our existing server Mac (just a standard G3 on a 100 base network), is taking over an hour, and just previewing images that reside on the LinkStation within an application such as Quark or Photoshop is painful. Folders contain a mixture of just 3 or 4 100Mb images, or several hundred individual small files, which I know take longer to copy.
Hopefully there is a setting somewhere I have got wrong, but I believe I have configured it all correctly. I left the install more or less as it was (Raid 5), and didn't reformat the drives, and only gave it a manual IP address to match the rest of my network.
In the office it will only ever have Macs accessing it, over a mixture of OS X 10.3.9 up to 10.4.11, and either 100 or 1000 base ethernet, but we had hoped to allow certain clients ftp access, but if it is this slow over the ethernet network, I daren't even think about suggesting that yet.
Is there anything I can do?
The only thing that I am using that didn't come packaged with the drive is our own, admittedly old Cat 5 ethernet cable. Could that be the problem?
Thanks in advance.
Jonathan
You wont get gigabit speeds over the network. This is a NAS device, not a file server. What kind of transfer rates are you getting?
I understand I won't achieve gigabit speeds, but I do expect the device to be quicker at copying, opening and moving files around than my 6 year old G3. I am not at work at the moment, but will take a look at the transfer rates when I get into the office later. Thanks for responding.
It's a concern because the idea was to make this drive accesible to several people on the network.
I am getting between 10-12 MB/sec to the Link Station, and about 14-17 MB/sec from Mac to Mac on the network. So maybe not so bad then?
Thats about the usual. Have you tried to take the switch out of the equation? Try that and see what rates you are getting.
Yes, I tried with it connected directly to my G5 Mac, using the ethernet cable that came with the Link Station, and then again back on the network via the switch - copying the exact same files gave near identical timings - although I didn't check MB/s rates.
Seems in order and maybe not quite the nippy device I expected, but I have it now and need to use it.
Thanks for the input on this.
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