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Constant Disk activity RN104 w/6.1.8
My "activity" light NEVER stops unless I turn off the power. NEVER. I usually run MYSQL server (for the XBMC database) and the NAS holds my video files. The XBMC accesses the NAS via NFS. Respo...
I would begin to disable all the add ons, the antivirus, the backup jobs and the snapshots.
If things improve, I would re-enable them one by one to get a culprit.
If things don't improve, I would to a defrag.
You could do a write speed test with a 2gb file to see if the NAS under performs (should be around 90-95Mbytes/s in read and 40-50Mbytes/s in write for the 104 over gigabit ethernet)
Come back here with the results of that. Depending on those we might have some other tests to do.
My 104 writes something every 3 to 5 seconds but that's not what you seem to describe.
If things improve, I would re-enable them one by one to get a culprit.
If things don't improve, I would to a defrag.
You could do a write speed test with a 2gb file to see if the NAS under performs (should be around 90-95Mbytes/s in read and 40-50Mbytes/s in write for the 104 over gigabit ethernet)
Come back here with the results of that. Depending on those we might have some other tests to do.
My 104 writes something every 3 to 5 seconds but that's not what you seem to describe.
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