Has any one else had issues with VERY slow backups? I only get 12% network activity unless I use windows backup and point to the WD then I get 75%.
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Hello Wayne. Noup, I've never had that problem.There are a lot of reasons for this: Maybe one of the two mirrored HD is damaged.Check your wires and network switch, it could be some problem there. Despite what the manufacturers say, the network switchs must be powered off from time to time, I do it monthly.Another thing is a firewall blocking the connection to the client computer or limiting its speed, you need to check the connection policies.Finally, I strongly recommend you to use both ethernet connections of the WD Sentinel and to use CAT-6 cabling. It has the same cost as the CAT-5 or CAT-5e and ten times the connection capacity (1GB instead of 100MB).I hope this helps. Hello Wayne. Noup, I've never had that problem.There are a lot of reasons for this: Maybe one of the two mirrored HD is damaged.Check your wires and network switch, it could be some problem there. Despite what the manufacturers say, the network switchs must be powered off from time to time, I do it monthly.Another thing is a firewall blocking the connection to the client computer or limiting its speed, you need to check the connection policies.Finally, I strongly recommend you to use both ethernet connections of the WD Sentinel and to use CAT-6 cabling. It has the... » Read More Hello Wayne. Noup, I've never had that problem.There are a lot of reasons for this: Maybe one of the two mirrored HD is damaged.Check your wires and network switch, it could be some problem there. Despite what the manufacturers say, the network switchs must be powered off from time to time, I do it monthly.Another thing is a firewall blocking the connection to the client computer or limiting its speed, you need to check the connection policies.Finally, I strongly recommend you to use both ethernet connections of the WD Sentinel and to use CAT-6 cabling. It has the same cost as the CAT-5 or CAT-5e and ten times the connection capacity (1GB instead of 100MB).I hope this helps. « Show Less
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Hello Wayne. Noup, I've never had that problem. There are a lot of reasons for this: Maybe one of the two mirrored HD is damaged. Check your wires and network switch, it could be some problem there. Despite what the manufacturers say, the network switchs must be powered off from time to time, I do it monthly. Another thing is a firewall blocking the connection to the client computer or limiting its speed, you need to check the connection policies. Finally, I strongly recommend you to use both ethernet connections of the WD Sentinel and to use CAT-6 cabling. It has the same cost as the CAT-5 or CAT-5e and ten times the connection capacity (1GB instead of 100MB). I hope this helps.
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WD comes with Windows backup software. It's somewhat rudimentary but it works.
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absolutely not.....you'll enjoy it....first backup took about 45 minutes..all the rest approx. 12-15 minutes
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Just as KrellSteel said, works fine once you use Disk Manager on it. I have a 4TB drive, a WD40EURX, and gave it a GUID partition with NTFS, and drive letter for convenience, and it's copying files like a champ as I type. Copying 200GB of data (5% of it's capacity) takes about 40 minutes.
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I get ~30-40 MB/s via iSCSI (NAS' CPU is maxed...) with all other services disabled, can't comment on SMB performance since I dont use it. These are definitely not the fastest units. (for anyone else reading this, that is megaBYTES per second, not megaBITS)
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Mine is dead quiet? I read comments about the noisy fan also but I have never heard any noise at all.I installed a 3 tb red WD hard drive and formatted with no trouble. And I have no expertise at all.
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I have been transferring upto 15 Gb on the NAS. Frankly, the speed is slow compared to the USB interface. However, considering that it is connecting over the Wi-fi network to the NAS connection might make the transfer longer. However, so far I am not thrilled with the speed of the device. However, since I have the unit only for a few days, more testing is required.
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I successfully use the 2TB My Book Live for backups until upgrading to Lion. Now it is painful. It takes 7-10 days for a fresh backup of 300GB using Time Machine over a wired network. And TM demands a fresh backup every few weeks. I've scoured the internet for answers, with no success. I regret I ever bought this drive.
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WD is a newcomer to the router business. They are known for Hard drives. I bought their new router and paired it with the matching extender. I recently bought a new router. Their devices are not mature items yet and I struggled with them. Look elsewhere.
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I don't think there's a reliable answer because I think WD puts in whatever drive is available. I haven't heard WD give any answer to this question. It's really slow, so it may be a 5400 drive.
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I am using MyPCBackup which works fine and I have also used a Toshiba external drive for backup. The backup up and down loads very easily.
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I installed the Seagate Dashboard. I then scheduled it to backup all my stuff every night. You can see what is going on by opening it via "Computer" from your Start Menu on a PC, there it is along with your C drive....good luck. It works like a charm for me...
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Call them. Always have 2 backups! I lost a lot of data with that hard drive, mine failed after a short time
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New 1.06 FW was just released this morning... with support for 1.5TB drives.I'd watch for problem reports on D-Link's forum for a little while before trusting it with important data, just in case there is a bug.
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I have been running mine with a Western Digital WD30EFRX NAS 3tb just fine for a few months now. Runs quick and hasn't presented any strange playback issues or lag, it has actually decreased load times but probably due to NAS spec. Though, weird behavior with file transfer, when I copied over the old 1tb drive in my Micca to the new 3tb, it somehow ballooned my files by about 200gb. Hidden files show nothing and quite a few folders read different in size between the two drives. Not sure if files are being decompressed on the copy over or something, no ZIPs just ghost data that has taken decent bite out of the drive, I don't think there is a 200gb reserve or system partition on a 3tb...
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I have 4 external hard drives hooked up to my wndr3700v2 via a USB hub and the performance is very good. There seems to be a problem and about once a week I lose access to one of the hard drives, but rebooting the router fixes that. Hopefully that problem will get fixed in a future firmware release. *** Update *** I had Netgear replace my router with a new one to address some buggy behavior. The new one has the same issues. This router is just a little rough around a few edges. Regarging the USB HDD performance, I am quite happy with it with the exception that is seems to lose the connection to one of the hard drives on Sundays (SERIOUSLY). *** Update 2 *** I discovered that there is a sleep feature in my Seagate external USB hard drives. I disabled that using the Seagate/Iomega utility and my NAS performance has been great with no disconnects. Currently I have 3 USB hard drives connected via a powered USB hub and am happy with it.
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File transfer is a bit slow. You may want to look into a Thunderbolt drive instead.