3TB My Book live horribly slow when trying to upload to it

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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My wd my book live 3TB is pretty much unsable out of the box because the upload is 3mb/sec even when connected directly to my laptop.

Anyone have similiar issues with this drive?  Would have purchased usb if I had known these things were so slow. 

David

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Is your PC mounting the MBL as WEBDAV instead of Samba?

Easist way to tell is to open the drive listing and see if says the filesystem is NTFS or FAT.

If it says FAT, your PC mounted it with WebDAV which is much slower.

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it is mounting via NTFS…  do you have any other suggestions?

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Check for network problems.    3 megabits per seocnd is deadly slow.

I average 200-240 megabits per second read/write to my MBL… 

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I don’t mean to sound too basic, but how fast is the network card on your laptop? 10/100?

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It depends on the file sizes. If you are copying lots of small files you will be lucky to get 1 MByte/s. If you are copying a single large file you will easily get the 40MBytes/s (I can). This seems to be a generic problem with this sorry excuse for a NAS. I logged it with them weeks ago but they deny all knowledge. There are many, many other problems with this product. If you can, return it and buy another product.

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Hi morridm, I have the same problem of 3mb/sec which is not acceptable. I just got the 3TB MBL and installed it… Then I found your posting. Have you ever resolved it? If you do, would appreciate your sharing the solution. I am about to return it and get a wired one instead. thanks.

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Zenmaster wrote:
…I am about to return it and get a wired one instead. thanks.

Wired one?  The MBL isn’t “Wireless.”

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The MBL is wireless. But the upload is so slow that I’d rather get one using a wired connection instead. Have you resolved your upload speed problem?

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Zen, I think you’re confused.

The MBL is *NOT* a wireless device!

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@Zenmaster: the MBL has an Ethernet port, definitively is not wireless.

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Ah! I must be confused. I thought it was the abbr. for My Book Live which I was referring to. Anyhow, this is what I recorded since I posted. When uploading to My Book Live, different connections made different transfer speeds. Wireless to wireless is 2.7- 3.4 M, the slowest . LAN to wireless is 11 M. After reading other posts, I unplugged the My Book Live’s network cable from my router and plugged it directly to my laptop (Win 7, core i7) and I get 24- 25 M. Fastest so far. Are these the normal for My Book Live? Thanks.

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Depends…  if you’re saying 24 megaBYTES, yes, that is typical performance.  I’ve recorded as high as 30.

If you’re saying 24 megaBITS, no, that’s still very slow.

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It is Mega byte for sure. Not bits. If 24-30 MB is about the norm of physical LAN connection directly from laptop to my book live, then, does 2.5- 3.0 MB upload speed from laptop to my book live, wireless to wireless connection, sound normal? Thanks.

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Still quite slow IMO. I use macs, and an airport extreme wireless router - over wireless I manage 5-6MB/s usually, I manage a lot of media, so use a gigabit wired connection for any big transfers - writing to the MBL is usually 35MB/s, reading from it is faster - more like 50-60MB/s I think (can’t recall exactly)…

The slowness you are seeing I think is due to your network rather than the drive…

edit - just read a 4.15GB file from the MBL - 56s - 70MB/s read speed…

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Your speed sounds good. You have agood point. My router is over a year old so it’s kind of slow in today’s standard. That could be the reason why my wireless transfer speed is at snail pace. Time to get another one. The GB wired connection you mentioned sounds interesting. I’ll probably try too. But I connected the MBL directly to my laptop already, without going through the router or any in between jacks or adapters. I would have thought that it would be the most direct connection it can get, thus it should be the fastest. No? Just now, I uploaded different files from another external HDD using the direct plug in connection . It was 40 MB for one second, then quickly dropped to 27 and went steady at 24 MB. Uploading from my laptop’s C drive is even slower at 12 MB. Now I am copying files from my other external HDD to the MBL and the speed is 19 MB… I can’t figure it out.