Melco – copy speed – glacier-like slow / Your experience?

[simoncn]

There are a couple of possible reasons for this.

1) Tthe Ethernet port on the Melco might be running at 100 Mb/s instead of 1 Gb/s. You can check this by looking at the colour of the Ethernet port LED on the back of the Melco (red = 100 MB/s, green = 1 Gb/s).

2) The Melco has a very slow single-core CPU. The other devices that you mentioned have much faster multicore CPUs.

Do you need to copy 500 GB very often? If you are updating the Melco from a master copy somewhere else, it should be possible to copy only what has changed.