Well, I transferred some MKV's over last night. Had to say that it was painfully slow. For 42GB, Windows was quoting around 7 hours, it was shifting at approx 1.9 MB/s. This was from my Windows 7 laptop, wireless to the router, wired thereafter. I got a marginal improvement going completely wired, but even that was only 2 MB/s. I have set the NAS as RAID 1, ext3, using 2 brand new Samsung F4 2TB HDD's.
I'll try some detective work and see if there is a problem elsewhere.
I guess you allready know this but just to be sure - valid for 1.08 at least.
If you have created a share directory (=anything but Volume_1 or Volume_2 - root of drives) lets say
SHARE1 = volume_1/Share
and
SHARE2 = Volume_2/share.
If you copy between the share folders like SHARE1 to SHARE2 in windows explorer it will be EXTREMELY SLOW.
If you instead navigate via explorer to voume_1/share. Ctrl+c, navigate to Volume_2/share, Ctrl+v
it is A LOT quicker.
This becomes even more apparent if you copy things inside ie SHARE_1.
Lets say you want to move a directory from SHARE_1/Movies -> SHARE_1/MusicVids it will be VERY SLOW
Cut&paste a 10Gb dir this way
will take hours if on wireless - I guess it sends the data to your PC and then back to NAS unless it is some quirk in the FW)
BUT if you navigate via file explorer to Volume_1/SHARE/Movies, ctrl+x, navigate to Volume_1/SHARE/MusicVids, Ctrl+V
it will be INSTANT (cut and paste a 10Gb dir
takes about 5secs this way)
So are you copying the files by navigating via volume1 or do you try to cope directly to a share?
REgards
Boogeiman