HD-LB2.0TU3 runs very slowly on iMac with OS X 10.8.2

[txsmiths]

I just bought an HD-LB2.0TU3 DriveStation Axis 3TB to do backups on an iMac running Mac OS X 10.8.2.  I plugged the drive directly into the iMac using the supplied USB3.0 cable.  Time Machine began the backup of my 130GB of files but said it would take 9 days (!).  I used Disk Utility and reformatted the drive, thinking it was a format compatibility problem.  No change.  I left the backup running all week and it still hasn't completed a single backup.  Apparently it wasn't kidding about 9 days (actually it'll take way longer than that).  Clearly, something is horribly wrong.

 

Looking through these forums, I see firmware updates on LinkStations or CloudStor drives but this is a DriveStation.  I've also seen mentions of incompatibilities between specific Mac OS versions and SMB.  What I'm trying to do is incredibly simple: plug in a USB drive and copy files to it.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks!

 

[rireland]

I don't have a solution for you, just commiseration...   I'm seeing something very similar with my Drivestation Quad on Windows 7.

 

For me at least, a USB2 connection is actually faster than  USB3.

[txsmiths]

For my setup, using USB2 didn't help.  Same incredibly slow transfer rate.

 

[davo]

And is the same happening on a different MAC / PC?