Why is deleting so slow?

[RzB]

I have a DS211J - two 2T drives set up in a mirrored configuration with one volume. The drives are Western Digital WD20EARS-60MVWB0. OS is DSM 4.0-2228. I'm using Win7 64bit.

The volume is not quite half full.

I want to delete all files and folders from the drives. Doing a delete from Windows is taking 40+ minutes - there must be a better way - yes/no?

Thanks,
RzB

[duffykins]

Have you tried logging on to the DS as admin and deleting files from there? Is it any quicker?

[@lex]

better way: log in through telnet or ssh and delete using rm -rf (careful here: you could loose everything, make sure you are in the right directory !).

It will be MUCH faster than from Windows.

Good luck !

[duffykins]

better way: log in through telnet or ssh and delete using rm -rf (careful here: you could loose everything, make sure you are in the right directory !)....

If you have any experience of Unix this command is similar in operation to DLT. If you use it and you are in the wrong directory...use it at your peril.

As I wrote, using the 'delete' function within DSM should be fast enough.