ReadyNAS 516 and OS 6.5.0 slow to the point of unusable

Hi ArthurP,

Could you tell us if you did the manual or automatic update? Was this the case on another PC or computer on the network? Lastly, send us the complete device logs so we can check what's wrong with your system.

Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

Manual or automatic update would make no difference unless of course you weren't prompted to do an automatic update when you opened the web admin interface (which would suggest internet connectivity problems).

The logs would be helpful to see what's going on on your system.

The anti-virus performance issue was fixed in 6.5.0, so one would expect that something else is the cause this time.

Out of interest what addon's are you running (if any) and have you made any changes or mods via SSH or other means?

How many drives are you running?

Is the speed issue there for both reading and writing?

I'm sure one or both of the netgear people above will help get it sorted but was just interested as I have a 516 and it is working fine with 6.5.0

I have a 316 NAS unit, and the 6.5.0 upgrade hammered it. I have it as the primary file server for folks in a small office. Small tho it may be, access to files is critical. Business critical. If you are still having these issues, have you tried disabling the 'ReadyCLOUD' service? If not give that as shot. I've gone through a week of this erratic connectivity to shares and slow transfer speeds and seem to have found relief/resolution when I turned off 'ReadyCLOUD' and 'ReadyNAS Replicate'. 

Because things started working 'normally', I have not tinkered with anything else. The folks on the network need to access their files on the shares so when the NAS started to behave, I just stopped poking sharp sticks at it, but I think I maybe didnt need to disable the 'Replicate' service, but I'll experiment with that later, perhaps over the weekend when nobody is about.

try turning off 'ReadyCLOUD', see what that does.