Time will tell, but so far so good. This new router is MUCH cooler than the last under load and doesn’t have my laptop cooler pad under it. I did leave it propped up on the cd though to not mush my luck too far yet. Transfer rates to the usb hdd are down to almost half of what they were before, 24MBps now, but that seems more in line with what others have reported. I will rerun my 200GB copy test again after I update the firmware to the latest.
I did notice that the open source download for the firmware went from 484MB (1.05.12) down to 376MB (1.06.18)? Not that I mind a more well coded source but 20% savings is pretty hefty unless it was all from removing pseudo code. I hope to be able to get some time this weekend to look into the source code.
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=1703&sid=179&lang=en
