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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 ...
janforman
May 24, 2013Aspirant
StephenB wrote: I guess I'm not surprised that the reds didn't improve performance.
hando wrote: Replaced the green's with new 3TB reds.
Performance still terrible - the device is capable of much faster speeds...
Hopefully Netgear will spend some cycles on optimizing.
WD RED are great hardware, but may be slower than WD Green
WD RED are optimized for long life and lowest power (amazing aprox. 4WATT per unit than Green 6WATT)
If you need some speed you must buy WD Black Series, but we have a lot systems with WD RED and perfomance is aprox 100MB/s READ/WRITE in RAID5.
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