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RN 104 poor performance -> unusable
Hi, I have a RN 104 with 3 2TB disks in RAID5. The performance I'm talking about is simply FOLDER ACCESS!! some folders can be accessed normaly, and others are just unbearable slow, like 7 minu...
I am having similar problems with a ReadyNAS 104. running 6.2.2 frimware.
From windows 7, and from windows 8.1 machines, over wired or wireless connections (from the computer) it can take 15-30 seconds (or way longer) to display the contents of a folder in windows explorer. Sometimes there is a full time-out with no response. In this case I have mapped the NAS to a drive. I have also tried this using network paths such as \\192.168.1.my_IP\my_folder\ with the same kind of response times.
This makes the NAS almost unusable for my intended purposes. After reading this thread, I tried disabling Antivirus and that seems to have fixed the problem. So, now a security question. I have all of my computers running antivirus software - what is the risk of running the NAS without its AntiVirus? Is computer antiVirus good enough? If Antivirus is that much of a burden on the NAS 100 series, why is it there - I agree this makes it unusable?
Services running on the NAS: SMB, AFP, HTTPS, FTP, AntiVirus
Network: LinkSys E3400 GBit wired and N wireless network.
Disk configuration: 3 x WD Red 4TB, in RAID 5, using the "X-RAID" configuration
I have a Gigabit 8 port switch hooked up to the LinkSys to connect printers, computers and the ReadyNAS.
I have tried the ReadyNAS hooked up with one or two hard-wire connections - no effect on directory display speed.
Using NAS performance tester 1.7 I have the following transfer speeds over a wireless connection -
NAS performance tester 1.7 http://www.808.dk/?nastester
Running warmup...
Running a 400MB file write on Z: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 9.00 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 5.57 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 5.22 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 5.26 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 7.25 MB/sec
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Average (W): 6.46 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on Z: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 9.14 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 9.69 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 9.38 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 9.25 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 10.28 MB/sec
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Average (R): 9.55 MB/sec
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From windows 7, and from windows 8.1 machines, over wired or wireless connections (from the computer) it can take 15-30 seconds (or way longer) to display the contents of a folder in windows explorer. Sometimes there is a full time-out with no response. In this case I have mapped the NAS to a drive. I have also tried this using network paths such as \\192.168.1.my_IP\my_folder\ with the same kind of response times.
This makes the NAS almost unusable for my intended purposes. After reading this thread, I tried disabling Antivirus and that seems to have fixed the problem. So, now a security question. I have all of my computers running antivirus software - what is the risk of running the NAS without its AntiVirus? Is computer antiVirus good enough? If Antivirus is that much of a burden on the NAS 100 series, why is it there - I agree this makes it unusable?
Services running on the NAS: SMB, AFP, HTTPS, FTP, AntiVirus
Network: LinkSys E3400 GBit wired and N wireless network.
Disk configuration: 3 x WD Red 4TB, in RAID 5, using the "X-RAID" configuration
I have a Gigabit 8 port switch hooked up to the LinkSys to connect printers, computers and the ReadyNAS.
I have tried the ReadyNAS hooked up with one or two hard-wire connections - no effect on directory display speed.
Using NAS performance tester 1.7 I have the following transfer speeds over a wireless connection -
NAS performance tester 1.7 http://www.808.dk/?nastester
Running warmup...
Running a 400MB file write on Z: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 9.00 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 5.57 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 5.22 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 5.26 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 7.25 MB/sec
-----------------------------
Average (W): 6.46 MB/sec
-----------------------------
Running a 400MB file read on Z: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 9.14 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 9.69 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 9.38 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 9.25 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 10.28 MB/sec
-----------------------------
Average (R): 9.55 MB/sec
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