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[energyweapon]

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?

[fordem]

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

[Tank_Killer]

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.

[energyweapon]

I am using XP pro SP3.

[fordem]

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

[Rodent]

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

[gunrunnerjohn]

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

[MikeyL039]

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

[gunrunnerjohn]

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

[spartans]

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