extremely long delete times

[eddy531]

   

Have a 4TB Terastation Live (HS-DH40GL)

Purchased recently, have done no firmware updates.

Home network, computers running XPSP3.

 

Issue:

I have sent a number of data backups to this NAS, some of which stopped midway for reasons related entirely to the backup software (Genie Backup Manager Pro 8). I have gottenthe backup issue resolved and am now trying to delete the partial backups. This is taking an extremely long time, as in a 1TB deletion has been running for six or seven hours with no end in sight. I have disabled the recycling bin feature on this share.

Is this behavior to be expected?

Thanks, 

[Dustrega]

eddy531,

 

   My recommendation would be to abort the deletion of the files and go into the web interface and under Disk Management->RAID Setup there should be a Disk Check option.  I would recommend running that first before continuing on.  If no errors are returned then the only thing that I can think of is that you have a high volume of small files that are being erased which will of course take a long time if it's over 1000 GB of data.  Keep us informed as to what happens.