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Performance halved at a stroke (ReadyNAS Duo, 4.1.8) ...
In a busy few weeks, my little ReadyNAS Duo's performance seems to have halved at a stroke. The problem seems to be a consequence of upgrading to RAIDiator 4.1.8 (release) and performing a full facto...
I know this thread is about ReadyNAS DUO, and I don't want to derail the thread, but I also wanted to share my identical experience with my NV+.
I recently purchased a NV+ myself. . and upon setting it up, I immediately upgraded to 4.1.8 . . After taking a couple days to get data moved etc. . . it was quit painful as to how slow it was. . after some digging and testing, I saw I was only getting around 8-9 MB/s write and 10Mb/s read. . After reading this thread I downgraded back to 4.1.7 and BAM. It was like my NV+ got unleashed. I am now getting 30+MB/s read and 20+ MB/s write.
I definitely believe 4.1.8 has a SERIOUS performance bug in it. If anyone on this board has an engineer's ear at Netgear they may want to whisper in it. . Any firmware that involves a 50-60% performance hit has major problems and probably should be pulled from distribution ASAP.
As for me I will not be moving from 4.1.7 until this is confirmed fixed even though a large portion of my machine base is OSX Lion.
Hope the info from this experience helps.
TLDR - If you have performance issues and are running 4.1.8 . . try downgrading to 4.1.7.
I recently purchased a NV+ myself. . and upon setting it up, I immediately upgraded to 4.1.8 . . After taking a couple days to get data moved etc. . . it was quit painful as to how slow it was. . after some digging and testing, I saw I was only getting around 8-9 MB/s write and 10Mb/s read. . After reading this thread I downgraded back to 4.1.7 and BAM. It was like my NV+ got unleashed. I am now getting 30+MB/s read and 20+ MB/s write.
I definitely believe 4.1.8 has a SERIOUS performance bug in it. If anyone on this board has an engineer's ear at Netgear they may want to whisper in it. . Any firmware that involves a 50-60% performance hit has major problems and probably should be pulled from distribution ASAP.
As for me I will not be moving from 4.1.7 until this is confirmed fixed even though a large portion of my machine base is OSX Lion.
Hope the info from this experience helps.
TLDR - If you have performance issues and are running 4.1.8 . . try downgrading to 4.1.7.
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