ReadyNAS OS 6.1.5 RN104 Performance

If your volume gets full you will likely see performance issues. The changes in 6.1.5 are designed to alleviate these issues somewhat but a factory default is needed if you want to take advantage of the changes.

Oh okay, I knew it changes the block size from 4096 to 32,768, and am going to do it just so its done and taken care of sooner rather than later. Just awaiting it to backup my Media to a borrowed external drive. :)

Thanks for your response!

I just spent the last couple of days moving all of my data off of my RN104 to an old NV+ in order to perform this FW upgrade. What a pain in the *ss. I cant say I've seen a performance increase with the new firmware (6.1.5). In fact my old NV+ seems to be performing better. It also appears to have much more stable read/write speeds...take a look at the numbers below from NAS Tester 1.5. Any advice on how to increase performance on the RN104? Currently the anti virus is turned off, also turned off is continuous protection. Only using SMB & AFP right now. After the FW upgrade I started to copy files back to the RN104 from the NV+, windows explorer was reporting anywhere from 14-27 MB/sec. Not sure how accurate that is...it seemed to be with the number of files and how long it took to complete the copy. But according to the NAS tester I'm seeing numbers way below that.

Current Setup
gigabit router
gigabit switch
Laptop (win7 pro) hard wired directly to router, also gigabit

Both NAS systems are hard wired directly to the switch. The laptop is plugged directly into the router.

RN104
Running a 400MB file write on X: 5 times
Iteration 1: 13.50 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 6.99 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 8.37 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 16.04 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 6.95 MB/sec
AVG: 10.37 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on X: 5 times
Iteration 1: 24.63 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 21.91 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 4.87 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 9.79 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 21.44 MB/sec
AVG: 16.52 MB/sec


NV+
Running a 400MB file write on X: 5 times
Iteration 1: 25.92 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 28.45 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 27.03 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 25.90 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 27.41 MB/sec
AVG: 26.94 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on X: 5 times
Iteration 1: 15.99 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 16.22 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 16.54 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 16.73 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 16.21 MB/sec
AVG: 16.34 MB/sec

Do you get faster speeds if you connect the laptop to the switch?

Test with my RN104 and FW 6.1.5 (4x2TB)

Write (1500MB File):

Totalcommander: 40.000 - 41.000 KBs : ~ 39MB/sec


Read (1500MB File):

Totalcommander: 77.000 - 79.000 KBs : ~ 76MB/sec

Connection:

PC > 16x GB-Switch > 5x GB-Switch > RN104

Yes, Yeahh should seeing faster speeds (likely why he posted).

Yeahh - if you'd like more help on isolating this, it might be best if you start a new thread.

I'll try moving the laptop directly to the switch. But I dont think that will do anything. If that was the problem, you would think I'd get similar results with the NV+ and the RN104. But the two are completely different...not even close. I'll continue to tinker with it and maybe start a new post. Thanks!

I tried connecting the laptop directly to the switch instead of the router...no change. Performance actually went down a little if anything.

If 802.3x flow control enabled on the PC NIC? Also, are jumbo frames disabled?

Yes & Yes