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RN202 extremely slow on small files
Coming from Synology I was hoping for a better OS (I really don't need all the functions Synology offers) and a faster NAS I purchased a ReadyNAS RN202. It did very well in tests, but now I'm trying to set back a back-up of my email folders, a lot (!) of small files.
I've been transferring them through Windows 7 to the SMB share. It has taken 27 hours (!!) to transfer 200.000 files (most of them very small, total 8GB). That's over a day and it still has to do another 100.000 files. This is so silly slow, what is happening?
I've got everything pretty standard, just a different copy handler on Windows 7. Latest ReadyNAS OS (6.4.2), no Antivirus, standard settings for MTU, single gigabit line (my whole network is gigabit, everything is cabled with CAT6), IPv6 disabled, both drives JBOD separate (I like it that way) with their own shared folders.
Why on earth is it so slow? I expected the small files to take a couple of hours, but even the old Synoloy is waaaay faster than this, although the ReadyNAS is waaaay faster on large files.
I don't want to go mess about with iscsi, I don't mind it taking an hour, but in total over 36 hours is rediculous. Any thoughts on this?
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Did you turn off the antivirus service? There is a performance-crippling issue with it (with both 6.4.1 and 6.4.2) that Netgear is working on.
As I said in my topic it was never turned on. So I have to wait for a next version (or probably reflash to an earlier version?)
Sorry, I missed the AV comment in the first post.
It shouldn't be that slow. Small-file copies are always slower, but it should have completed in well under an hour.
Perhaps benchmark large-file performance with NAStester (http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance)
How are the files dispersed? Are all 200,000 files in a single folder?
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