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nitro001
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Apr 18, 2016
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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,...
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    StephenB
    Apr 18, 2016

    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.

     

     

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 20, 2016

I don't think the speed difference is related to the beta firmware - all it has is a couple of security patches over 4.1.14.

 

You might want to do a backup and a factory reset - then rebuild the NAS and reload the data.

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nitro001
Aspirant
Apr 24, 2016

Sorry for the delayed reply, I had upgraded to 4.1.15-T3 without any changes; however, I got an idea.

I mounted the nas again on my machine using the Windows NFS Client and saw some slight improvement on write and DRASTIC improvement on read:

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Average (W):      6.01 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on T: once...
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Average (R):     51.83 MB/sec
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Since I can use NFS, for now I will do this.  I don't want to reset my NAS as I have a small percentage of stuff that isn't backed up.  My NAS is 3TB, my backup drive for it is 2TB...  so some of my media collection was excluded.

 

I will have to look at a new box to replace this and relegate this one as the backup.

 

Thanks again for all your help.

 

 

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