My setup is doing the same ■■■■. I just tried to copy a ~801mb avi file from my laptop to the My Book Live and it was clocking at ~2.10mb/sec. Is this the best it’s going to do? I have the drive wired to a 2Wire DSL modem/Wireless Router.
Are there any firewall settings that have to be changed on Windows 7 or at the router?
I’ve been having issues a well. I purchased this from Costco 7 days ago an it’s still doing the initial backup (670GB).
A Few things to note:
I’m running a Mac OS (Leopard).
My router is an Apple Extreme Base Station
My network is running over cat 6.
I’m running my backup using Time Machine (but I’m willing to change that if that’s the problem).
I had a previous WD LIVE (2TB white one) that worked extremely fast but it stopped working altogether, I thought I was safe with another WD but I’m starting to question that.
I’ve got the latest firmware
it works sporadically i.e. 8GB in 5-10min and then 20kb in the following 2hours .
I really don’t want to return the drive but this is getting stupid.
Regarding Time Machine backups - do a google search on issues with it. You will find a number of ways to help with Time Machine - especially if you are trying to do this wirelessly.
I am not sure what people are expecting the My Book to do connecting wirelessly and with a 10/100 connection. It can only move the bits as fast as the wireless speed. Try connecting the My Book Live directly into your computer via the Ethernet port to test the speed. As long as you have Gigabit ethernet, you should see anywhere from 40MBs-90MBs (depending on the size and length of files you transfer. The larger the file size, the better performance you will get).
If you are still having issues connected directly, then you might start investigating your OS. Antivirus software can slow down performance on file writes by up to 40% (depending on the AV vendor).
I also have a My Book Live 2TB (installed in my home for a few days now). It has performed reasonably fast up until today. Now I hear the WD drive reading/writing when no computers are on. How can I tell what the drive is doing?
Copying or deleting files are extremely slow right now. I have both OSX and Windows devices in the home and have tried both wired and wireless, still really slow. Just to be clear, it was fast until today and the HDD is doing some background task which I assume is what is slowing the dirve down. I have no clue to tell what the heck the drive is doing or when it will be doing it.
PS. Not too thrilled with the SmartWare backup software. Backing up files that I didn’t choose…not too sure how I feel about guessing as to whether the software backed up my important files. Some product manager at WD should be questioned on how he/she let engineers slip that one through.
*> Basicly only way to tell is to enable ssh (using hidden menu in webinterface), log in and type ‘ps aux’. If you don’t know nothing about linux you can just type:
ps aux > output.txt
It will save current proccess list in file output.txt , copy/paste content of that file in http://paste2.org , share URL here and I will tell what your drive is doing…>
Have you recently added photos to the Shared pictures folder? If so, that might be the reason it seems like it is accessing the drive even though you are not doing anything. There is a background process that transcodes photos to formats acceptable to Mobile devices for the WD Photos application. This is a low priority process, so can take quite a while.
Other processes that might be happening in the background is the DLNA software indexing the media as you are adding it.
I am experincing very slow speed too. Not just when transferring files to/from the drive, but also when navigating in the dashboard menu.
It takes 10-30 seconds from I click on a menu option until the screen is updated. In the meantime I see the “please wait” wheel turning…watching the content of the WD drive (such as pictures on my TV) is testing my patience as it takes forever to load to image.
Transferring 250 GB from my laptop to the WD MyLiveBook through a cabled connection via my Linksys DIR 655 Gigabit router took 10 hours.
@jazzymood: I am running a killer NIC gaming card and I am sure that supports gigabit ethernet connections. Do you know of any other possibilities to overcome this issue. I have tried all the tricks I have with my limited network knowledege. I have checked a few forums and not one has identified a clear issue and why this is happening.
@cman548: I have tried a few options. I tried the direct connection to my computers LAN; and I received speeds around about 50mb/s. I thought it was my £180 linksys E4200 router that was causing the problem.
Then I checked directly connecting to the Killer card in game mode an I got 300kb/s. In throughput mode 5mb/s. I changed the settings to run at 1000 speed and the speed was unusually slow.
Lastly I connected the router to my computer LAN and checked speed and I am getting between 20 - 30mb/s and I can live with that.
I would like to thank all the contributers on this forum for helping me resolve this problem.