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Aspirant

Nov 13, 2015

Slow share performance on my RN 104 since upgrading to 6.4.0

I upgraded to 6.4.0 two days ago, obviously now wishing I'd checked the forums first as my ReadyNAS was running fine on 6.2.5, but didn't think they'd send out such a poor release. Anyhow, I've s...

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RobTWo

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Dec 09, 2015

I contacted support after 6 days of trouble. It took about an hour and in the end there wasn't any improvement. It could be, so they suggested, that the new firmware had some trouble resyncing and loading, it just needed a lot of time and I should give it some more time.

Then I just got this brilliant idea. Why not try to reinstall firmware 6.4.1 again, manually, over the installed 6.4.1. So I did and left it overnight. This morning my ReadyNAS performed like there was never any issue!

So to others having trouble: download the firmware found in Support / Downloads and just reinstall it manually. It might help you as it did for me.

JennC

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Dec 09, 2015

Hello RobTwo,

Thank you for sharing.

We appreciate your contribution to the community. Engineering is already aware of the slow performance problem with the 6.4.1 version and they are already working on it.

Regards,

BHGreene
Aspirant
Jan 05, 2016
I was experiencing the slow performance on a client 312, but when I disabled the built-in Anti-Virus scanning, the issue went away. All of the attached machines already have managed anti-virus on them, so I am comfortable turning it off.