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[Tom_Mann]

I purchased a dir-8868L a couple of weeks ago and had absolutely no problems setting it up, incorporating it into our home FIOS network, etc.  The router seems to be performing at the stated speeds, except for the problem described below.

The problem is that a couple of days ago, I connected a 3TB USB3 drive that contained our family archive of about 2 TB of photos, and am using it as a cheap NAS box (I have the networked 3TB drive mapped as drive Y on my photoshop machine).  However, the drive is *always* active, even when no one is attempting to access it, no one else is logged in to the WiFi, etc.

I access the USB drive from our WiFi connected computers (including a new, heavy duty photoshop machine with a fast 8.02.11n card), but there is always a long delay (5-10 seconds) between when I request a file and it begins to download to the machine I'm using.   If I'm browsing through an album of pix, that sort of delay is just intolerable.

Although I haven't measured the actual data rate once the transfer gets going, that rate seems fairly reasonable, the problem is the delay before each file transfer.

So, a couple of questions:

1) Why is the drive always active?  What can I do to turn this off?  Will this activity ever stop?

2)  Can I do anything to speed up the beginning of each file transfer from the 3TB drive?

3) What is with all the hidden files that have been placed in every single directory of my attached USB drive.  A system should NEVER EVER scribble over my data without first warning me.

Thanks,

Tom

[FurryNutz]

Maybe due to the fact that with all that data on the drive and being that large of a drive. The router is probably attempting to process what is on the drive into its catalog. Officially D-Link only supports 500Gb drives and for probably this reason. Any thing more then this, would cause this kind of behavior having this kind of large data storage capacity. I recommend that you install a USB to LAN network adapter for the USB drive of this size for accessing via IP address or connect the USB drive to a dedicated PC and share it out. I presume that you tested a smaller size drive, less activity would be seen. The cataloging of the drive can't be disabled or turned off.

[Tom_Mann]

Thank u for the quick reply.  I was afraid that cataloging couldn't be disabled.  Your suggestion abt the LAN to USB adapter is great. All I really want is just a plane Jane networked drive, not a media server or anything else.

Tnx again.

Tom

[FurryNutz]

Good Luck.