I have a TS-253A which I use purely as a file server [video, photos and music] for my home network. It is getting on for 6 years old and has 2*Western Digital 2TB hard disks configured as Raid 1. All firmware and apps are up to date.
Whilst the performance as a server seems to be OK [e.g. it connects to various devices and streams content without any noticeable problems] it has become very slow when I access it via a Windows 10 PC on the network. For example, when backing up to the PC, accessing content via the PC. Typically, when I first connect via the PC, the discs start chattering noisily and this can go on for 10 minutes or more. Logging on [direct from browser, not using Qmanager] it can a minute to display the initial top menu screen, and apps such as Video Station can take several minutes to load, and then run very sluggishly.
I wouldn’t say it was unusable, but it’s taking a lot of my time for tasks which used to be straightforward and [relatively] quick.
Both WD disks are rated as ‘good’. They are configured as Raid 1 thick volume with 1.34Tb usable storage, of which only 0.84Tb is being used for data.
It’s not always been like this, but seems to have developed about 6 months ago and also seems to be getting worse.
Though sometimes it seems OK!
What is the most likely happening here, and what would be a remedy?
Just leave the ssh connection open with TOP running. I have that always for each of my NAS units. That way if they are slow, I can look and see exactly what is going on…
“Oh, it’s still doing an iDrive backup and it’s still doing an HBS backup to the other NAS”
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The NAS discs began chattering to each other earlier today - I wasn’t actually doing anything with the NAS at the time.
I ran ssh with top and the only difference from smooth running was an increase in i/o - well not a surprise - though the activity seemed not excessive to me. I logged into the NAS and performance was normal - so not a problem this time.
I don’t have much knowledge of how the system works, but could it be some aspect of RAID 1 synchronisation which, for some reason or other, occasionally brings the machine to a near standstill?
You have multimedia, qsync, qufirewall, container station / docker, for a starter at a first glance.
Have you gone through and disabled / removed the services you don’t need? Do you need the ones listed?
Container station takes a lot of resources. QuFirewall shouldn’t be necessary in an internal network unless you are exposing your NAS to the internet, which you should not.
Multimedia shouldn’t be required and uses a lot of resources…….
