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ReadyNas NV+ (v1) Upgrade Suggestions
Hello, I am a long time ReadyNAS NV and NV+ User, I upgraded to the NV+ SPARC after my NV died well before NETGEAR was involved, and have been happy with it since, I have upgraded the memory to 1GB,...
Your NV+ should be getting around 20 megabytes per second on large file transfer, not 1-2 megabits. Have you checked the disk health?
Any new NAS (including the entry-level RN104) will outperform your NV+.
If you are interested in transcoding with plex, get the RN214. If not, then perhaps the RN314 - it doesn't do real-time 1080p transcoding, but it does have lifetime chat support. Technical support (phone/CHAT) by the way is for brand new products purchased from authorized resellers.
You can of course repurpose the NV+ for backup.
Your NV+ should be getting around 20 megabytes per second on large file transfer, not 1-2 megabits. Have you checked the disk health?
Any new NAS (including the entry-level RN104) will outperform your NV+.
If you are interested in transcoding with plex, get the RN214. If not, then perhaps the RN314 - it doesn't do real-time 1080p transcoding, but it does have lifetime chat support. Technical support (phone/CHAT) by the way is for brand new products purchased from authorized resellers.
You can of course repurpose the NV+ for backup.
I will have to look into both of those further. AS for my current NV+,
On my Windows 10 and 8.1 machines, I was getting average 4.5 MB/s. On my Windows 7 PE test machine when I was migrating data off, I was getting about 2 MB/s.
I have 3 Seagate ST31000528AS 1TB Drives, and 1 Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH162 1TB Drive in a redundant X-RAID (3 TB Total, 1 Spare).
The SMART status' are OK. I have the following features enabled:
- Disable Full Data Journaling
- Optimize for OS X - My Wife has one Mac OSX pc, the rest are Windows.
- Enable Fast USB Disk Writes
I didn't enable fast CIFS writes though.
Also what might help, is when I run top via SSH without a copy, it looks like:
top - 11:24:03 up 100 days, 10:26, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.15, 0.18
Tasks: 66 total, 2 running, 64 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 0.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 1010656k total, 966544k used, 44112k free, 22240k buffers
Swap: 767904k total, 0k used, 767904k free, 773808k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
30113 root 17 0 2992 1664 1328 R 2.3 0.2 0:06.96 topWhen copying a file the CPU ramps up and smbd consumes MOST of it.
top - 11:26:06 up 100 days, 10:28, 1 user, load average: 0.40, 0.20, 0.19
Tasks: 66 total, 3 running, 63 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 7.8% us, 31.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 10.3% id, 0.0% wa, 8.7% hi, 41.4% si
Mem: 1010656k total, 1003680k used, 6976k free, 24208k buffers
Swap: 767904k total, 0k used, 767904k free, 818496k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
29708 data 16 0 21648 8944 7552 R 82.4 0.9 2:43.39 smbd
42 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 3.6 0.0 37:33.64 pdflush
30113 root 16 0 2992 1664 1328 R 3.6 0.2 0:04.95 topThanks for the help and recommendations.
It's been a while since I tested the NV+ speed, so I tried it with NasTester ( http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance )
On my Win-10 system it reports 16.65 MB/sec write and 26.0 MB/sec read speeds on 400 MB file transfers.
The Win-10 system is using an SSD hard drive. Disable journaling, optimize for OS x, Enable fast CIFS writes are all set on the NAS. Firmware version is 4.1.15-T3.
I Turned off Journaling and enabled CIFS writes and ran the NAS Test for the 400MB file, but for 1 itteration since it takes so long, it stil reports about the same for write speed. Read speeds are higher, but lower than what you are recording:
Running warmup...
Running a 400MB file write on S: once...
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Average (W): 4.96 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on S: once...
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Average (R): 19.24 MB/sec
-----------------------------Although I am only running 4.1.14. I have been waiting for 4.1.15 to be pushed to final before upgrading to it. Was hesitant on upgrading to a test firmware (T3), but if it makes that much of a performance different, I may have to.
StephenB wrote:Your NV+ should be getting around 20 megabytes per second on large file transfer, not 1-2 megabits. Have you checked the disk health?
Any new NAS (including the entry-level RN104) will outperform your NV+.
If you are interested in transcoding with plex, get the RN214. If not, then perhaps the RN314 - it doesn't do real-time 1080p transcoding, but it does have lifetime chat support.
You can of course repurpose the NV+ for backup.
Sorry to bring this back up, but has anyone used Plex Server on the 214 or 314 NAS boxes? I was reading about it and it seems transcoding is locked to 480p on the 214. Most of my media is 720p or 1080p and would like to steam it to my Laptop and Fire TV Stick at full 720p or 1080p. Thanks.
JennC wrote:Hello nitro001,
You might want to see this : PLEX NAS compatibility.Regards,
I had seen this earlier and got a little confused about the wording:
NAS Make NAS Model CPU Type CPU Model Audio SD (480p/576p) HD (720P) HD (1080P) Notes ReadyNAS 214 ARMv7 ARMv7 1.4Ghz Quad Core Yes Yes Yes Yes Real-time transcoding locked to 480p ReadyNAS 314 x86 ATOM D2701 2.1GHz Yes Yes No* No *May transcode some low bitrate 720p media The 214 says yes for transcoding support for 720P and 1080P but says it is locked to 480p... how is that transcoding to 720p or 1080p if it is locked at 480p? At the same time, the 314 says no for 1080p and maybe for 720p (may transcode low bitrate)...
This was much easier way back when there was 2-3 models of ReadyNAS, a 2 bay, a 4 bay and a + model with LCD screen. :smileyindifferent:
nitro001 wrote:
I was reading about it and it seems transcoding is locked to 480p on the 214. Most of my media is 720p or 1080p and would like to steam it to my Laptop and Fire TV Stick at full 720p or 1080p.Does plex need to transcode your video when you are streaming on your local network? Usually it won't, unless there is a codec incompatibility or a low-quality network connection.
Sorry for the late reply.
No on my local network no it doesn't need to transcode, and more than likely it wouldn't need to remote as I try to OpenVPN into my network. If it does on a remote network it would be from another high-speed network, not my phone as I don't want to waste data plan streaming video.
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