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Aspirant

Feb 26, 2016

ReadyNAS RN2120 painfully slow.

I apologize if this has been covered but could not find an answer that helps me. I work for a manufacturing company and we use an RN2120 to save normal PDFs, Microsoft office files, pictures, and...

Performance

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Feb 26, 2016

Is the antivirus service enabled? If it is, then disable it and see if the speed improves.

There is a major performance impact with AV with OS 6.4.2. Netgear is testing a fix, and if disabling AV solves your problem then you could PM @mdgm and try it.

yates
Aspirant
Feb 26, 2016
I have tried disabling the antivirus with no impact either way. I will give it a shot again today though just to make sure. I am currently running the 6.4.0 firmware rather than the knewer firmware.
- yates
  Aspirant
  Feb 26, 2016
  Small update; disabling the antivirus did have a small improvement (maybe 50% faster load times) on pictures, I have not heard back on the solidworks files.
  - JennC
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Feb 26, 2016
    Hello yates,
    
    For the meantime, disable antivirus. Fix is being developed and hopefully next month is its release.
    
    Regards,