<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">OK, to be 100% accurate, opening the folder wasn't the very first thing I did after restart. I had an error message about afp_mount needing access to my keychain. I Googled afp_mount and dismissed that error message. Then, I tried to open a folder on the SMB share.<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 9, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Neil wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I have a Buffalo Terrastation 2TB NAS RAID connected via SMB.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It always feels slower than a NFS+ device connected via Firewire or USB2, but this has gotten ridiculously slow recently.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Now, it takes several minutes just to open a folder.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It takes several more minutes just to move a group of files to another folder. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I tried restarting.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>That helped for a couple hours once, but not the last time.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I just restarted and the first thing after restart I tried to open a folder on the SMB share and it still hasn't opened in the time it has taken me to launch mail and type this message.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Does anybody have any ideas?</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Neil</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">PowerMac G5/2x2, 1.5gigs RAM, Mac o/s 10.4.9</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">connected to the NAS via a TRENDnet gigabit switch</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>