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jcharth
Aspirant
Dec 10, 2012

old ready nas nv running slow

Hello I ve been testing out network configurations on my nas and so far speed has been very slow. It is an old unit but I am not sure if this is why.

I downloaed iperf for sparc the 2005 version on my NV. This is the fastest output

[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 174 MBytes 146 Mbits/sec

With 100mb setting full duplex I get 29Mbits

With 1500 mtu and auto speed I get 109Mbits
with jumbo package enabled I get 149 Mbits

the problems is that boxes get 900+ Mbits on gigabit interfaces. Why is this so slow?

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  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    What version of RAIDiator?
    On which version of RAIDiator did you last do a factory default?
    What brand and model disks are installed?

    The NV was released back in February 2006. As you can see the speeds over gigabit are faster than over a 100 Mbit connection.

    Sparc ReadyNAS have slow Infrant CPUs. They can't go anywhere close to saturating gigabit ethernet. Having said that depending on your answers to questions such as the ones above there may be some changes that can be made to improve the performance a little.
  • This are the specs of the ready nas. I got the feeling it is slow hardware but how can they ship a gigabit product that runs so slow. I believe iperf only tests throughput so the disks wont make a diference.


    Model: ReadyNAS NV

    Firmware: RAIDiator 4.01c1-p1 [1.00a041]
    Memory: 1024 MB [ 2.5-3-3-7 ]
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    You think it would've been better for them to use 100Mbit Ethernet only which would've meant it was even slower?

    Did you last do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) on that firmware? That firmware is very, very old.

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