PRO 6 poor read performance??

StephenB wrote:
forgot to post the logged Bonnie output - DD Result:59.2MB/s.

As indicated in the article ReadyNAS Performance Expectations that's pretty much what you'd expect from a single hard drive. You need multiple hard disks in both the NAS and the client, or multiple disks in the NAS and e.g. a SSD in the client, to get speeds quicker than that. Of course you could also use multiple disks in the NAS and multiple client machines.

Speeds can be highly variable on a number of factors.

StephenB wrote:
Not sure what load that represents, but it happens to be about the read speed I get when directly connected to the PRO. When the same drive is connected to the PC directly, Iometer gets 122 MB/s.

What size file are you testing with? You should test with a file that is at least twice as large as the amount of RAM in your PC.

StephenB wrote:
It would be interesting to hear what other PRO 6 users are seeing with Bonnie.

I don't have a Pro 6, but you should see speeds multiple times what you're getting when you have more disks installed (and a redundant volume i.e. no resync taking place), particularly when all drive bays are full.