Performance halved at a stroke (ReadyNAS Duo, 4.1.8) ...

simath wrote:

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).

Hi Simath,

I don't think anyone's cursing Netgear yet and I'm glad you're happy to rollback to 4.1.7 to restore performance ... good for you.

It's worth keeping in mind that this isn't an option for many in the thread though, who rely on 4.1.8 for compatibility with Mac OS X. Stuff happens and no one's demanding an immediate fix ... just some feedback on how investigation is progressing and some confidence that this confirmed issue will be addressed in good time.

Even given Wednesday's announcement (new ARM based Duo's and NV+'s on the way) it's too early to call time on Sparc support. These units are still shipping, readily available, actively used and under warranty. While that's the case, it's not unreasonable for anyone to expect them to be fully supported.

Thanks,

Justin