Link Station Live Very, Very Slow Copying Files

[pachy]

   

Link Station Live LS-CH1.0TL

Firmware 1.06

 

MacBook Pro 10.6.2

Time Capsule

 

500 gig USB Drive Connected to Time Capsule

 

Link Station Live has a Wired Ethernet Connection to Time Capsule

 

Copying Files from 500 Gig USB Drive to Link Station Live

 

It takes forever and a day:

 

To copy a DVD Image takes over four (4) Hours

To copy a dual sided DVD Image takes over eight (8) hours.

Even copying a folder of say 200 Meg takes 20-25 minutes.

 

I have a total of approximately 300 Gig that I want to copy to the Link Station.

At these speeds it would take over two (2) weeks to finish.

 

Please note that I have not tried connecting the 500 gig USB drive directly to the Link Station Live USB port. This is because the 500 gig USB drive is formatted for a Mac and I do not want to copy it to another drive prior to trying to copy it to the Link Station Live.

 

Obviously I could use some suggestions.

 

Thank you.

[Unhappy09]

   

Unfortunately even thought they advertise gigabit speeds, the actual speeds are not even close to regular ethernet let alone gigabit speeds. I had the same issue. I had 800gb of items I needed to transfer from a usb to my LS live and then back in order to format the USB drive. I had the usb drive attached to the LS live and even that was slower than than molasses. What I did since I had the some of the same file system issues as you I burned me a copy of Linux Mint to use as a start up disk. I connected the usb drive to my laptop and hardwired the LS live to laptop as well. I started my laptop with the Linux boot up disc and since linux can see almost all file types I was able to use my laptop as the "copier" It was much faster. Took about 17 hrs still but more less than the original estimated 13 days that is said when I did it the standard way through the network. Keep in mind that my network speeds have nothing to do with the original slowness because I was going LS live to attached usb. What I was told is just that the LS live's processors are not that great. It does what is supposed to do but at a very slow speed. You will get used to it.

[PCPiranha]

How many/how large are the files that you are transferring?  What kind of transfer rates are you getting with a single large file?  How full is the unit to capacity?  Also do you have a PC that you can update the linkstations firmware from?

[pachy]

   

A little more information -

 

All of these speeds were done copying from the Link Station Live (1/2 full) to a 500 gig USB drive. (less than 1/2 full)

 

Number of Files     Total Size     Time(Seconds)        MB/sec

 

1                                   2.5 MB                    16                        0.16

1                                   4.2 MB                    20                        0.21

1                                 30.0 MB                  166                       0.18

1                               215.0 MB               1,120                      0.19

2                               364.0 MB               3,120                      0.12

100                               3.2 MB                    32                       0.10

8,180                            7.0 GB             45,000                      0.16

 

When I copied the 30 MB file FROM the USB drive TO the Link station Live, it took only 53 seconds, about 1/3 the time going the other way.

 

Also another fact - the file sizes on the Link Station Live are huge - likely due to a blocking factor/feature that I am not aware of.

 

For example, a pdf that is 10,864 bytes takes up 1MB - see the Get Info below.

 

 

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I haven't checked all of my files but it seems like they are all taking up 1MB minimum. So no wonder the copy from the Link Station Live is taking so long.

 

I would appreciate it if you could verify te fie sizes on your computer. Do a Get Info on a small text or rtf file or anything under say 100K and let me know.

 

 

You ask "Also do you have a PC that you can update the linkstations firmware from?

 

Firmware is version 1.06. I am not aware of any more recent version.

 

 

Thanks for your help.

[JoshC]

Please update your Firmware and reinit the unit.  What kind of ISP service do you have and what kind of router.  Are you doing through a Switch or Hub?  If your not using the Media server  disable that also.

[pachy]

   

Mac Book Pro 10.6.2

Time Capsule Router connected with Cat 6 cable to a DLink Gigabit  Switch

Comcast ISP

 

Media server disabled 

 

LinkStation Live connected with Cat 6 cable to a DLink Gigabit  Switch

 

Firmware Version 1.06 as reported by NASNavigator

Note: the Buffalo Tech www site lists Version 1.02 2009-09-10 as the firmware

 

As I mentioned, the problem seems to be the "file sizes" - on the Link Station everything is 1 MB.

 

 

Not sure what you mean by "reinit" - I a reluctant to lose the data that I have already copied to the Link Station - it has taken days.

[JoshC]

You can only update the firmware on the unit with a PC.  You looking at the Mac Updater which isnt what your looking for, you need the 1.07 version for windows.  When you reinit the unit you restore it back to factory defaults but it does not mess with your data.  It should be in the Maintence tab in the Web UI.