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

[Lorenz]

Hi Simon,

thanks for your input.

1) LED is green = 1 Gb/s – so that's not the issue.

2) With the introduction of Songkong running on the Melco itself I was able to "benchmark" the performance of the Melco against my MacBook Pro for the very first time. Well, the Melco ist glacier-slow with regards to analysing those 500GB. Did not take any measurements but it will be in the range of 1:10 in favour of the Mac.

This observation is part of my answer to your question...

I keep my Master Files in three folder on my Mac (a: DSF b: FLAC c: AAC (legacy files from the iTunes era) – I do curate these files carefully on the mac – manually. Tag them, ensure that they all have artwork etc – the usual stuff. I do then synchronize these files (via Chronosync) to the corresponding Mac mini, my NAS devices (Synology & QNAP) or my audio devices (Melco or Naim Uniti Core).

Usually I synchronise towards the Mac mini as my MacBook is my business device I carry around most of the time. The Mac mini functions as data hub and syncs to the other devices. I guess this procedure is not too uncommon :-).

With regards to SongKong – still trying to like it. At the moment I don't: too much automatism and not enough control. My approach performance wise is to do all the meta data work on my Mac an then transfer/sync "super-clean" to the other devices...

Best,

Lorenz