ReadyNas NV+ 1.0 always has been very slow

apara wrote:
Dear ReadyNAS Community, Ever since I purchased this device (ReadyNas NV+ 1.0) it has been extremely slow.

What do you expect? The ReadyNAS NV+ (v1) is pretty much the NV (released February 2006) with a few improvements (unrelated to performance) such as a LCD display.

Newer ReadyNAS models such as the Ultra/Pro are much faster than the NV+.

apara wrote:
I updated memory to 1gb Turned on all the check boxes in the performance tab Enabled Jumbo frames Ensured that my network card in my PC and switch support Jumbo frames Ensured that the network is running 1 gigabit connection My network tab in ReadyNas says: Online / 1000 Mbit / Full-Duplex

Looks like you've done all you can to maximise performance. Disable any unnecessary services (e.g. if you don't use AFP, disable it, but leave HTTP/S enabled as that's needed for Frontview).

apara wrote:
For example, a full backup used to take just over 5.5 hours on the ReadyNas NV+. With Synology it took about 3.5 hours. So, I am going to setup ReadyNas NV+ as a backup to Synology, however, I would still like to know what, if anything can I do to speed this system?

You can hardly expect to get the speeds of newer hardware with older hardware.

apara wrote:

Here is another example. I am currently running rsync to transfer files over to the Synology box, here are the times I am seeing: 25673567 100% 3.86MB/s 0:00:06 (xfer#10605, to-check=1136/28179) 25094390 100% 4.03MB/s 0:00:05 (xfer#10606, to-check=1135/28179) 27924214 100% 3.76MB/s 0:00:07 (xfer#10607, to-check=1134/28179) 26022772 100% 2.86MB/s 0:00:08 (xfer#10608, to-check=1133/28179) 32477033 100% 3.97MB/s 0:00:07 (xfer#10609, to-check=1132/28179) 30287531 100% 3.85MB/s 0:00:07 (xfer#10610, to-check=1131/28179) 29613346 100% 3.95MB/s 0:00:07 (xfer#10611, to-check=1130/28179) 30531130 100% 4.20MB/s 0:00:06 (xfer#10612, to-check=1129/28179) 33606931 100% 3.70MB/s 0:00:08 (xfer#10613, to-check=1128/28179) 2588612 100% 2.35MB/s 0:00:01 (xfer#10614, to-check=1127/28179)

Those are reasonable speeds. Rsync is very CPU intensive and the Sparc CPU in the NV+ (v1) is very slow so getting slow speeds is expected. Also note that with Rsync only the changes to files are copied across so it does appear to be a slower form of backup than what it actually is especially if using it for backups over the internet.

apara wrote:
Also, the WEB interface of the device is DOG slow. It takes about 5 to 15 seconds to switch to a new menu option.

Frontview (web-admin interface) is a low priority process. Due to the slow CPU it'll run slow all the time but it will run particularly slow when the NAS is under heavy use (e.g. running Rsync)

apara wrote:
Are there any logs that I can look at? Mind you, I am not even writing, just reading data at this point. The volume is 60% used. Please let me know if there is anything else I can try to get this box to run a bit faster.

If you did a backup using NFS not Rsync you'd notice speeds that are much faster but if a file is changed using NFS the full file would need to be transferred across not just the changes.