Px6-300d really slow... is it capable of serving files?

Hi, trying to wrap my head around what my IT guy did... i WAS running OS XServe w/ XRaid connected thru fiberoptic. the Raid drives died (it was about 10yrs old w/ daily usage) ... so we decided to replace. My IT guy replaced that configuration with JUST px6-300d, the i/o speed are horrible. IT guy is MIA, so i'm trying to figure this out.
My first question is:
Is this NAS capable of serving files at a good speed like my previous config?
does the NAS need to be connected to the XServe? it currently isn't.....
example... just a copy of an 81meg file TO another mac on the network takes 1 minute 14 seconds.
the same file to the NAS takes 1minute 42 seconds.
any suggestions appreciated

dianneszm,what made your IT guy think the PX6 would be the equivalent a 4Gb FC connection? This is a 1GbE connnection.
If this is to MACs what protocol are you using? You may need to experiment as AFP can be poor with some NAS, have you tried NFS?

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See #C3 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Its a pretty generic message, and gives me no help in trying to figure out what the problem is. I've been trying again for almost 3 days now, and nothing is working. Is there an error log file that I can go find that would help me a little more?
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