NASLite Network Attached Storage

While I know this topic has been covered before (see the 'Copying data between 2 drives on nas' started by Skidoo32 on 9 Oct 2006) I feel that it is still largly unresolved. If I want to copy data between two drives on the NASLite server unless these files are under around 3-4MB in size they have to go over the network (if the meet the size criteria you can move them through the 'Shares' network share). My issue is that I use my NASLite-2 server as a media server and to move a 350MB TV show file or a 7GB DVD backup over the network takes a lot longer than a straight drive to drive transfer would take (even if I was using FTP instead of doing a 'windows copy' - I use the Servant Salamander file manager which uses it's own code to copy/move files). Any suggestions (mounting the drives into a Windows machine with an ext2 file system driver and doing the move/copy there is not an option). Might we get terminal access to the NASlite server one day and be able to manipulate files locally that way?

Have you tested using the "Shares" share and it 3-4 Mb for sure. I routinely use it to copy 3-4GB files without problems.

The problem appears on much larger files, like 10Gb. I haven't tested to see which size is the cutoff. In any case, the limit is not directly related to the size of a file but rather to the time it takes to move/copy the file from on disk to another. The speed of the disks and interfaces is just as important.

I also can not copy without the copy going through the network. I can, however; MOVE files ( between different drives ) and this is handled locally on the server. And yes I use the Shares and access the files through them.