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yates
Feb 26, 2016Aspirant
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...
StephenB
Feb 26, 2016Guru - Experienced User
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
Feb 26, 2016Aspirant
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.
- yatesFeb 26, 2016Aspirant
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.
- JennCFeb 26, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello yates,
For the meantime, disable antivirus. Fix is being developed and hopefully next month is its release.
Regards,
- yatesFeb 26, 2016Aspirant
Just so that I am understanding, this is a software issue with this model of NAS and not a hardware issue that the NAS is not finding? I just need to report to the powers that be on the progress of repair.
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