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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...
Before everyone gets TOO pissed at Netgear - a couple of comments:
1) I too am an embedded systems engineer - written lots of firmware over the years. As they say "S**T Happens"! I'm sure they're running regressions now to figure out what broke...
2) Count your blessings that they are STILL even writing UPDATES for the (obsolete) SPARC systems. Ok, I guess NG still officially sells them, but I doubt there's much volume compared to the x86 systems.
3) I just bought an Ultra 4 Plus with 4x2TB Seagate LP Green (new version ST2000DL003). I hope I don't regret it (seem to be some issues with these drives) - but have had good luck with ReadyNAS so far (my original NV+ was an Infrant - too slow now, but still running).
I simply downgraded back to 4.1.7, and got back to 22MB/s writes (was only getting 5MB/s under 4.1.8).
1) I too am an embedded systems engineer - written lots of firmware over the years. As they say "S**T Happens"! I'm sure they're running regressions now to figure out what broke...
2) Count your blessings that they are STILL even writing UPDATES for the (obsolete) SPARC systems. Ok, I guess NG still officially sells them, but I doubt there's much volume compared to the x86 systems.
3) I just bought an Ultra 4 Plus with 4x2TB Seagate LP Green (new version ST2000DL003). I hope I don't regret it (seem to be some issues with these drives) - but have had good luck with ReadyNAS so far (my original NV+ was an Infrant - too slow now, but still running).
I simply downgraded back to 4.1.7, and got back to 22MB/s writes (was only getting 5MB/s under 4.1.8).
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