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Readynas 102 connection problem with Apple Macs
I have a client in a design studio where we installed a 2 disk (2x3TB) Readynas 102 about a year ago. The PC's on the network see the folders really quickly but the two Macs seem to have a proble...
brosnahan1114 wrote:
I have not reported to netgear support. I'm a new user and have been getting used the device. I experienced the performance lag and decided to do a little research, which led me to this thread.
I will report to netgear support while I investigate this further.
Thanks
Probably best you start your own new thread rather than hijack this one. However my thread here may help you as I had exactly the same problem. https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/Readynas-102-connection-problem-with-Apple-Macs/td-p/1034635 Your issue is a Finder problem. Its a bug introduced to the Apple OS which Apple have so far refused to acknowledge or fix. There is a fix that can be implemented to the firmware called vfs_fruit which fixes the problem somewhat.
brosnahan1114
Please accept my apoligies. I got my threads mixed up. Your input here is relevant. Sorry.
barryd,
No need to appologize. I really didn't want to hijack your thread, which seems really important for you to address for your client, but I figured my problem was the same thing you/your client was experiencing.
Hopefully I will be able to get this resolved shortly.
I figured I would check back in here and give an update.
I opened a case with Netgear support. It got elevated to L2 Support. Supports resolution was to get a faster hard drive and create smaller directories so the Mac OSX Finder doesn't have to work so hard to display the results.
Now I will say that this tech kept saying that this is a workaround. I did bring up the contents of this thread in my case, so I can't say I'm really buying this workaround.
The tech closed this case, so I will now have to go another route to solve this with a better workaround.
brosnahan1114 wrote:I figured I would check back in here and give an update.
I opened a case with Netgear support. It got elevated to L2 Support. Supports resolution was to get a faster hard drive and create smaller directories so the Mac OSX Finder doesn't have to work so hard to display the results.
Now I will say that this tech kept saying that this is a workaround. I did bring up the contents of this thread in my case, so I can't say I'm really buying this workaround.
The tech closed this case, so I will now have to go another route to solve this with a better workaround.
This is not really a solution at all. "Create smaller directories"? What does that mean? Store less stuff on your drive? Well yes I think that will work but its not very practical.
Have they applied the vfs_fruit fix that mdgm did for me yet? Thats what you need. To be fair to netgear though its Apple that need to fix this.
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