NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
ReadyNAS Hardware Performance
Hello, Currently have a ReadyNAS 4 bay model 314 is has 2 Western Digital 4T drives and 2 Western Digital 6T drives installed I have been trying to increase the perfromance of this device i.e re...
I took the drives to the retail for testing and they came back good. Though 2 of the wentern digial 4T drives were not rated for NAS they were greens, but they all tested good. The service clerk claims it might be the machine that is causing the error and hence the preformace indicator showing decrease. She Claims this is common with Netgear ReadyNAS and that I might need to replace it. I have a screen shot of read/write stress tests using a Mac app called Blackmagicdesgin Disk Tester. Here is the results
My issue is when I copy transfer data in large sizes i.e. 100Gig's vs say a small file around 800megs the smaller file seems to take forever to copy go figur.
additionally an issue that came to mind was the use of Netgears propriatory X-Raid, though they
state it's the best choice offering reducdancy I cannot retrieve data using any other brad of NAS. Would it not
to switch to Flex Raid and chose Raid 5 so I can access data from a competitors NAS.
The boot percentage indicator is based on the step it has reached in the process, it really can't predict how long each step will take. The larger the drives, the less accurate that is compared to the actual time. Your green drives may be affecting that as well.
That service tech clearly knows little about the ReadyNAS (or NASes in general, probably). There is only one thing I know in the hardware that could slow it down and not kill it completely, and that's an Ethernet tranceiver that cannot properly negotiate a Gigabit connection and falls back to 100M. That would affect all file transfers and should be pretty obvious.
I have seen a couple other posts about slow file transfers on a Mac with OS updates (Mac and/or NAS). Not being a Mac user, I've not paid a lot of attention. But that would not be a reason to replace the NAS -- I'm sure Netgear will work out any issue, if they haven't already. Are you on the latest OS version for the NAS?
Are you getting a lot of retries on the network connection? My thought is that it's not really taking a long time to copy the smaller file, it's taking a long time for your computer to be aware it completed because of network errors, and it's just a noticably larger percent on the smaller files. The ReadyNAS does use RAM for file caching during copies, so you can see a large file start quick and then slow down, but I don't know why a small file would be slow from the beginning.
XRAID is just standard RAID with some "tricks" that let it expand itself instead of you having to give the commands. The partitioning and BTRFS file system of the drives is likely to prevent you from moving them to a non-Netgear NAS no matter what RAID format you choose.
NETGEAR Academy
Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology!
Join Us!
