Slow copying speeds

I've just tried hooking up a disk using USB to the ports in the back of the NV+ and used ssh to copy a file to the NV+

rsync --progress -ah /USB/file.iso /c/Share/file.iso

The file is a 700MB ISO and had an average write speed of 2,40MB/s.
Also a pretty slow write speed in my opinion.

Would be interesting to know what number you get if you just copy it with cp instead of rsync. What format is the USB drive?

Because I have to time it I can't really make it specific, but I guess it's around 5 to 8MB/s, still pretty low no?
USB Drive is NTFS formatted.

I agree it is pretty slow. 4.1.9 beta is supposed to be faster.

ext3 is the fastest format, though it is harder to read on Window's PCs. Not sure about Mac though.

Congrats on your new NV+ v1 purchase!

I can see that your WD disk is not on the Hard Disk HCL. It could well be the problem and NetGear would deny support to help you troubleshoot performance unless this disk is replaced.

Can you download your logs and check partition.log? If your disks are not 4k sector partition aligned that could be a problem. See http://www.rnasguide.com/2011/06/22/why-you-might-want-to-factory-reset-a-sparc-readynas/

EXT3 drivers are need for Windows and Mac to read EXT3 formatted disks. Neither supports them natively.

If I read it right, the discs should be 4k aligned, no?
Also I guess sda is my connected USB disk (because it was gone in the logs when i removed it).

Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/hdc: 1500.2 GB, 1500291424256 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182400 cylinders, total 2930256688 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1              32     4096031     2048000   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdc2         4096032     4608031      256000   82  Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdc3         4608032  2930240335  1462816152    5  Extended
/dev/hdc5         4608040  2930240335  1462816148   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hde: 2000.3 GB, 2000388448256 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243200 cylinders, total 3907008688 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/sda: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
224 heads, 19 sectors/track, 918004 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe30c5291

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2          206848  1965320191   982556672    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3      1965320192  3907024895   970852352    7  HPFS/NTFS

Anyone?

There are known issues with the speed of 4.1.8. Try 4.1.9 T2 beta if you feel comfortable running it or even downgrade to 4.1.7.