New ReadyNAS 214 -- Horrible Performance #26139897

Hello,

 

TLDR:  Brand new 214 has terrible performance of 3.5MB/sec over gigabit network, 15MB/sec local USB3 copy performance.  Older Ultra 4 Plus provided ~70MB/sec over gigabit ethernet with the same recently purchased drives.

 

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I just recently purchased and setup a new Readynas 214, coming from an older Ultra 4 Plus.  Both local USB copy performance and rsync over the network is drastically and disappointingly slower compared to the Ultra 4 Plus.  Here's some relevant info on my setup:

 

• Brand new Readynas 214 with 3 recently purchased HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB drives (#HDN724040ALE640) used in the former Ultra 4 Plus
• Readynas 214 --> GS108 Gigabit Switch  <---  Mac Mini (2013, El Capitan).  CAT6 all the way around, Gigabit.
• Readynas 214 is running OS 6.4.1, with the anti-virus turned off.   I have no additional ReadyNAS apps running or installed.   Copy-on-write is disabled, as well as checksums for the shares.
• Old Readynas Ultra 4 Plus user data was selectively backed up to a USB3 disk connected to the mac over rsync, HFS+ format

 

The original plan was to copy data back from the USB3 device to the new Readynas 214 using the 214's USB3 ports.   Doing it this way, either via front-view or manually with the terminal, I can only achieve write speeds of 15MB/sec.     

 

I was thinking surely this must be an odd issue with the HFS+ support on the ReadyNas 214, so I hooked up the USB3 device to the Mac, ready to Rsync over gigabit ethernet.  The write performance was even worse, at 3.5MB/sec.

 

With the external USB3 drive connected to the mac mini directly, I can rsync files from the USB3 device at over 110MB/s sustained.     Previously with the Ultra 4 Plus, I was able to rsync over the network and get somewhere arond ~70MB/sec, depending upon the size of the file.

 

I'm hoping that I just overlooked something in the setup of the 214 that allows one to configure things to expected performance.     If so, what?