I've had a ReadyNAS 214 for several months now, with 4 x 1gb drives installed. It's been working perfectly, I've been really happy with it, great performance etc etc.
However, this week, performance has dropped off a cliff. I have a PS3 which has been streaming via DLNA quite happily, that stopped working. Then I noticed that when I connect via FTP to the box, I can only reach transfer speeds of around 50kb/s - very far from the 50-60MB/s I was getting before! I can do transfers between other computers fine, so I don't think the computers or network are the root cause (my desktop is running Win10 and works fine with everything else).
My Readynas is running 6.5.1 (i upgraded firmware a few days ago to check if that was the problem, but still happens), and I've also disabled the builtin antivirus just in case (although it was working fine before).
Any ideas/thoughts? I'm getting quite annoyed with this box. My old ReadyNAS NV worked perfectly until the power board starting blowing semi-regularly which forced my upgrade 😞
Model: RN21400|ReadyNAS 214 Series 4- Bay (Diskless)
Where is this ReadyNAS 214 connected directly? To a switch or a router? Also. the computer you use to access the files stored to the NAS volume, is that connecting wireless? Can you try on a computer that is connected via LAN cable?
If the NAS is connected to a switch and the computer is connected wireless, connect the computer to the same switch where the NAS using a LAN cable, disable the wireless then test again the performance. If you get the same problem, connect the NAS straight to the router as well as the computer.
Do you have any backup job running at the same time? Also, can you disable IPv6 in the admin page > Network settings of the Ethernet that is being used?
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