ReadyNAS 104 and macOS Mojave 10.14.4 very slow access

Hi phantomwcs, as the RN104 is pretty short on resources with the more recent OS releases, you might want to check options to increase performance and stability of that nas in general. Behind the following link are some recommendations based on my own experiences with this type of ReadyNas throughout the last few years. Feel free to apply whatever might suit your needs.

Kind regards

https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-Idea-Exchange/Improving-performance-and-stability-of-RN104/idi-p/1253865

Roger,

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phantomwcs wrote:

I am seeing very slow access via mac's Finder. It will time to display the contents of a directory. I often also get a "verifying file" popup. In searching I found many threads on disabling SMB and using AFP, but now it seems SMB is the only option for mac

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For a while, Apple had the (not so) brilliant idea to force enable SMB signing on the (up to 10.13.3) - this is what made up the idea changing to AFP does creatre a faster connection aain in the past - starting from 10.13.4 this default was chaned again (hey Netgear, it is possible to change specs and implementation when they are causing bad user impression!). Worth checking that SMB signing is disabled anyway ->  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205926 

MacOS does still support AFP - for legacy connections only - but it does not give the option if there are Bonjour annoucements forthe same host (NAS) with both SMB and AFP, making SMB the default.