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Title: Why deleting file is so slow?
Post by: energyweapon on December 02, 2009, 07:55:48 PM

It seems the deleting process is not only to add a flag to the file table (common practice in Windows). The larger the file is, the longer it takes. I deleted hundreds of files totally ~500GB. It tooks more than a hour. Is this normal?

Title: Re: Why deleting file is so slow?
Post by: fordem on December 02, 2009, 09:07:49 PM

This might sound strange - but - were you using Vista?

Title: Re: Why deleting file is so slow?
Post by: Tank_Killer on December 03, 2009, 10:46:10 AM

I also notice similar behavior in slow deletion of files. The larger the file, the longer it takes.

I am on vista x64sp2 and firmware 1.06 final

Thankfully I dont have to delete large amounts of data at a givin time.

Title: Re: Why deleting file is so slow?
Post by: energyweapon on December 03, 2009, 12:08:12 PM

I am using XP pro SP3.

Title: Re: Why deleting file is so slow?
Post by: fordem on December 03, 2009, 12:17:22 PM

I've seen the problem on Vista, but not on XP.

Title: Re: Why deleting file is so slow?
Post by: Rodent on December 03, 2009, 04:17:35 PM

I am having the same problem with deleting of large files, can take several minutes to delete an 11 gig file but seconds for a 11 meg file, I am using firmware 1.04 and Windows XP Pro SP3

Title: Re: Why deleting file is so slow?
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on December 03, 2009, 06:12:10 PM

I know larger files take longer to delete, I'm guessing it's something about updating the file directories for the multiple file segments.

Title: Re: Why deleting file is so slow?
Post by: MikeyL039 on March 09, 2010, 07:03:40 PM

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I didn't see a solution, and I have the same problem from a Windows XP SP3 machine. I'm using the -323 with two 1-TB WD Green drives for external backup storage, and currently the backup files are around 100 MB, one for each of four backed-up drives. Deleting each file takes about an hour, if I remember correctly, which is way too long. Other than the deletion problem, this backup system works well.

The file system on the -323 is EXT2. Would reformatting to EXT3 solve this problem.

Thanks for any help.

     -Mike

Title: Re: Why deleting file is so slow?
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on March 10, 2010, 05:21:14 AM

Well, that's WAY too long, I've never seen anything like that! 

Title: Re: Why deleting file is so slow?
Post by: spartans on March 10, 2010, 07:32:31 AM

try using filezilla, delete by using ftp, max 2000files/command, better than nothing. hope it helps...