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hando
May 04, 2013Aspirant
Readynas OS 6 Massive Performance Decrease
Hi, I just updated my Readynas Ultra 4 to OS 6, and am now experiencing a huge performance difference. Previously, I could read at around 110MB/s constantly over a gigabit connection. Now, I barely ...
hando
May 04, 2013Aspirant
Yeah, hopefully 6.0.5 does improve things (raw I/O speed wise). I've tried changing just about every setting short of changing to Flex-raid, nothing seems to provide reliable speeds.
Sometimes I can achieve ~80MB/s, sometimes I can't. CPU usage wise SMB usually uses around 20-30% when doing operations.
Here are some transfer screenshots (using SMB obviously). Connected via direct 3M CAT6 gigabit line/9000 MTU.

I've also tried disabling the WDIDLE3 timeout on the drives, enabling write caching etc... but still have this inconsistent speed.
Sometimes I can achieve ~80MB/s, sometimes I can't. CPU usage wise SMB usually uses around 20-30% when doing operations.
Here are some transfer screenshots (using SMB obviously). Connected via direct 3M CAT6 gigabit line/9000 MTU.

I've also tried disabling the WDIDLE3 timeout on the drives, enabling write caching etc... but still have this inconsistent speed.
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