WD ShareSpace 8TB -slowest ever transfer?

[Jason Cole]

Hey All,

As a professional photographer one of the things I am always working against is lack of disk space on my RAID drives. I seem to clear up 200GB then three days later its full again...

It happens for several reasons, like we shoot raw, we shoot two photographers for weddings, we have a very busy business....

Anyways I thought I would take the plunge and invest in a WD Sharespace 8TB RAID ($2200 AUD). A good size RAID with about 6TB of usable space (1 drive is used for the parity algorithm) but still 6TB is great.

It all seemed great.. until i tried copying files to it...

I am getting a maximum of 12.3mb/sec transfer to the raid.. when I have like 2TB of data i want to put onto it that equates to 2+ days of copying time... a VERY slow device indeed..

Has anyone else got one of these or know any tricks to speed it up... as with its current speed its almost unusable....

Our network is gigabit Ethernet.

[swampler]

If you have wireless and hardwired on the same system, try disabling the wireless as it may be using the wireless without you realizing it. This would give you such a slow speed.

[brian.austin]

Too many variables to make a clear diagnosis.

Some things to look at:

1. Is speed/duplex set to auto and is the unit actually GETTING gigabit Ethernet speeds with full duplex?

2. Do transfers between other network devices also take as long?

3. Are there diagnostics on the new storage system?

4. Have you talked to Western Digital or your reseller?

Steve's suggestion is a good one as well. When connecting to a hardline, always turn off the wireless or the computer will make the decision on which way to go. You don't want that.