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Readynas 104, Avast AV, Malewarebytes. Yikes!
I have 4 drives in a Raid 5 config. I have been encountering very slow speeds with smaller files. So, I conducted a test using a directory of 164 small files totalling about 200KB [sic]. The tes...
This is due to access time.
Access time to a network device via SMB is much slower than to a local HDD.
Because we're talking about many small files, it's a lot of access time.
Also, a ReadyNAS 104 is kinda slow, which doesn't help access time.
Then you add AV + MB, which implies more access.
Try with bigger files, I would expect the difference to be much lower than the "300x" you found.
Well, the unavoidable issue is that the small files that are my unvaoidable reality are killing me (time wise).
BTW, I have two I think fast HGST drives, one older 7200 RPM WD drive, and another even slower 5400 RPM WD drive. Do you think that the slower drives could have a very significant impact on this issue? Is it worth trying to replace them with faster HGST drives or is that a second or third order issue that would only have an efffect to small to bother with?
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