Well, after requesting my activation email (msn) a gazillion times and being told that it had been successfully sent I finally registered a new user and used a gmail address. I received the activation immediately and was able to complete the registration.
As a new user of the Buffalo LS421DE I have several questions but will separate them into different posts for clarity sake. Hope that's alright.
The first question...
I have a pretty powerful PC -- quad processor, lots of memory and a Gigabyte Ethernet port -- connected to an Asus WAP/Router that also provides Gigabyte Ethernet ports -- which the LS421DE is also connected to. I easily achieve 50 GB/s -- the maximum of my subscription service -- via the same router and over the cable modem.
When I first set the LinkStation up it set up a RAID 0 configuration. The fasted transfer rate I ever observed -- big files, small files, it didn't matter -- was around 40 MB/s and the average seemed to be approx. 34 MB/s. And that was only after I had disabled DLNA.
Since RAID 0 doesn't provide data redundancy I deleted the RAID 0 array and created a RAID 1 array. Now the maximum transfer rate I'm seeing is just over 24 MB/s.
Neither of these rates is anywhere close to the advertised 80 MB/s rate on the box -- the reason I bought this particular device in the first place.
Can you tell me how I can identify the bottleneck that is throttling the potential rate of 80 MB/s back to 24-34 MB/s?
Thanks in advance,
Howard
Redmond, WA