I got a last generation Airport Extreme about a week ago, and I connected a Freecom 640 GB 2,5" (w/o its own power supply) after having formatted it. It worked like a charm until yesterday when all of a sudden the transfer speed dropped and has been low ever since. The first thing I did was to disconnect the drive and try it connected to the computer - it's just as fast as ever so clearly it's not the disk that's the problem.
What happened was that I was going to move all of the music folders from the different computers into the external drive to facilitate and clear up space on some of the older ones. I started with transferring a 12 GB large music folder into the drive and started consolidating the files via iTunes, because I like its folder-arranging. Almost done, and all of a sudden some albums took longer than others to add, and the consolidation took longer and longer. I stopped it there, but today - a day later - I realized that the slower speed has persisted.
Copying a movie file takes much longer, and it lags quite a bit with VLC in the beginning, even after having taken almost 30 seconds to even start. But the funny thing is that I experience almost no difference if I access the disk via XBMC. But there is still a difference.
I've tried:
-disconnecting all users, removing the disk and re-inserting it
-rebooting the Airport with the disk connected
-rebooting the Airport without the disk connected
-used Time Machine to restore the iTunes library files
-rebooted the computer
...
Huh... I've been googling for answers for hours, trying to see if any setting would fix anything - and nothing. Now, as I was writing this, I was just going to try to transfer a video file - and it's back. How weird.
I'll leave this here anyway though, because maybe someone knows how to avoid this happening again, or if it's a common problem. And also because I could find any info about this happening to anyone else, so maybe at least the thread can serve to calm someone else down should they experience the same thing
What happened was that I was going to move all of the music folders from the different computers into the external drive to facilitate and clear up space on some of the older ones. I started with transferring a 12 GB large music folder into the drive and started consolidating the files via iTunes, because I like its folder-arranging. Almost done, and all of a sudden some albums took longer than others to add, and the consolidation took longer and longer. I stopped it there, but today - a day later - I realized that the slower speed has persisted.
Copying a movie file takes much longer, and it lags quite a bit with VLC in the beginning, even after having taken almost 30 seconds to even start. But the funny thing is that I experience almost no difference if I access the disk via XBMC. But there is still a difference.
I've tried:
-disconnecting all users, removing the disk and re-inserting it
-rebooting the Airport with the disk connected
-rebooting the Airport without the disk connected
-used Time Machine to restore the iTunes library files
-rebooted the computer
...
Huh... I've been googling for answers for hours, trying to see if any setting would fix anything - and nothing. Now, as I was writing this, I was just going to try to transfer a video file - and it's back. How weird.
I'll leave this here anyway though, because maybe someone knows how to avoid this happening again, or if it's a common problem. And also because I could find any info about this happening to anyone else, so maybe at least the thread can serve to calm someone else down should they experience the same thing