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carl666
Sep 29, 2011Aspirant
downloading torrent to nas at work. controll it at home?
hi. :) when reading on NAS homepages i came to this: "Best of all, queuing of the torrents can be done over the web from a slower wireless laptop, but the actual downloading is done on the Read...
dbott67
Oct 01, 2011Guide
carl666 wrote: what am i doing wrong..?
Not sure why it's so slow. As noted above, you should see anywhere from 45 GB per hour transfer speeds and up when backing up to USB. What's the make & model of the USB drive?
carl666 wrote: maybe i could put another sata drive in the slot 2 in the NAS an copy the files from slot 1 to slot 2? :roll:
No... it doesn't work that way. The drive will be added to the existing array.
carl666 wrote: is that the fastest option?because this usb tranfering is taking ages!!!
ill be old and grey before that transfer is done. :(
If you're computer is wired to the network (as opposed to wireless) you could hook up the USB drive to the computer and then drag & drop the files. What kind of network connection do you have (wired 10/100/gigabit, wireless A/B/G/N)?
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