New Media Hub NMH405 - Transfer speeds

I have a brand new Media Hub with 2 Seagate 1.5 TB drives in RAID 0 (Linear 2), and the transfer and read speed are horrendous.  The Media Hub has the latest software (2.17.13), and the drives are not the batch of drives that are affected by freezing/throughput issues.  Maximum SMB transfers are aound 3 MB/s bidirectionally.  Playback seems to be okay for the most part as long as I dont start more than one stream.  The main networking device is a brand new Apple Airport Extreme which has 3 GBE and a dual band draft N accesspoint.  Everything else seems to be in order, but the speeds are horribly slow.
I was going to put the device in single drive mode to see if the problem was the RAID, but I wanted to check first to see if anyone else had any ideas.
Message Edited by jedson328 on 01-24-2009 11:04 AM

I would like to get some info on your system that you are testing with - OS version, connection type (are you hardwired or wireless to your router), computer specs..etc.
How are you measuring the performance? Are you using a tool? We would love to make sure the Media hub is running at the best possible performance, and from all our testing internally and externally it is, so your issues are certainly a concern.

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