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Very Slow Read/Write and Time Machine Backup
I know this has been written about for many of the ReadyNAS servers, but I haven't seen it for exactly the same issues I'm having.
It's slllllloooooowwwwww. Get the point. It will take weeks ...
I thought I'd close this discussion with the final outcome.
I did open a ticket with Netgear. They did replace the unit. But it was still dreadfully slow. It must be something in their OS that makes writes of small files dreadfully slow. I even tried it on a high end Windows PC. Same slow speeds.
And I did once again verify that I did not have these slow speeds with an old Buffalo NAS that I still had lying around. I got between 30-45 MB/second with that vs the 1 MB/second with the Netgear NAS.
So I ended up purchasing a 5-bay USB-C drive enclosure to connect to my Mac. Of course, I get blazing speeds with this.
For now, I've put some old 3TB drives into the RN3138 and I've relegated it to be a backup NAS for my small computers.
If/when they ever fix this issue, I might come back. But I don't expect that to ever happen.
VERY DISAPPOINTING!
Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 12 TB's.
The (4) 10 TB's were also Iron Wolf Pros.
BTW, it's been nearly an hour since I started the copy of the 1+ TB folder. As I recall, it has more than 2 million files. After nearly an hour, it has only find 69,000+ files.
I did copy a 180 GB folder down yesterday. It took about 12 hours to copy.
SoundmanArt wrote:
Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 12 TB's.
The (4) 10 TB's were also Iron Wolf Pros.
They shoud perform well of course.
SoundmanArt wrote:
BTW, it's been nearly an hour since I started the copy of the 1+ TB folder. As I recall, it has more than 2 million files. After nearly an hour, it has only find 69,000+ files.
I did copy a 180 GB folder down yesterday. It took about 12 hours to copy.
Lots of small files will be slower, but 12 hours for 180 GB is much slower than it should be.
What sharing protocol are you using? AFP? or SMB?
AFP.
SoundmanArt wrote:
AFP.
Can you try a test with SMB?
Well, it's certainly finding files much faster. I'll let you know how it proceeds.
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