Insanely slow copying 106GB from Mac Mini to NV+

anurick wrote:
Agreed about the iPhoto issues - That's an Apple problem, not a NetGear one. But the fact that I can't copy files reliably from the SMB share IS a NetGear problem. A NAS is for file storage and retrieval. If it doesn't do that reliably, it's broken.

Well update to the beta firmware then and give that a try.

anurick wrote:
My ReadyNAS is running the latest released version of the firmware. Lion was in developer hands for months before the release - it's rather inexcusable that NetGear didn't have the compatibility issues worked out the day Lion shipped. (The beta version of the ReadyNAS software has all sorts of dire warnings about data loss, so I'm not comfortable trusting my data to it.)

NetGear is a customer of the 3rd party company NetAFP that develops the Netatalk project which provides AFP and Time Machine for Linux machines e.g. the ReadyNAS. Backporting Netatalk 2.2 to run on Sparc ReadyNAS would've been a lot of work. They didn't just start doing this once Lion was released. NetGear doesn't support beta releases of 3rd party software/hardware. Considering that Apple could still change things before a production release NetGear understandably waited till after the production release of Lion before releasing a public beta for the community to test. Considering the large amount of backporting required, a fair amount of testing is needed. I don't see how NetGear could have done more than they have.

I've used many betas and never had data loss. It's a standard warning they give for every beta. If you're not comfortable to run the beta then wait.

anurick wrote:
And I'm not expecting tremendous speed from the NV+. But I am not tolerant of speeds 1/100th of what it used to provide.

If you remain on firmware released months before a new OS and have issues it's understandable that you're experiencing problems. Most Snow Leopard users shouldn't need to be updating to Lion yet.

anurick wrote:
For what it's worth, I use drives that are on the HCL. And the fact that later products are "far less picky" demonstrates to me that there is a serious problem with the ReadyNAS NV+, one that has not been fixed.

Firmware updates can address some hardware compatibility up to a point. Sparc ReadyNAS (e.g. NV+) are compatible with a decent range of hardware, just not as big a range as the newer x86 (Intel) ReadyNAS.