beuford  Freshman Member

Well, since no one replied I decided to upgraded one of my macs to High Sierra and see if I could get Time Machine to work over a SMB connection. I CANNOT configure a SMB connection for time machine to the NAS540. I CAN configure a SMB connection to a late-model WD MyCloud (and their site claims recent support for this…

Does the NAS540 with 5.21 support Time Machine over SMB? That's kind of what is expected in High Sierra. AFP is being depracated and most are turning to SMB for faster backups. However, support requirements for time machine over SMB are pretty specific. Also, in my informal testing I found that, at least with my Macbook…

UPDATE OK, so something I left out - I'm using a Mac. I pulled out my wife's laptop running Windows and ran the same tests - and got 90-100MB/s for both reads and writes. What the ... ?? So what is different about AFP that causes a 50% performance hit? I tried all three of my Macs and all had similar results. I also tried…

Thank you for the revised info. However, I am still at a loss with respect to the poor write performance of the NAS540. I'm only getting 44MB/s writes (copy from computer to NAS, direct 1Gb link, 10GB file). The My Cloud gen 1 does about the same, and the gen 2 beats it by 50% (~64 to 66 MB/s. Reads are at 115MB/s. Note…

From a web site that records specific information from NAS systems, we have this /proc/cpuinfo output for the same model (NAS540): **********Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)processor : 0BogoMIPS : 2387.14 processor : 1BogoMIPS : 2393.70 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls CPU implementer :…

Short version: /proc/cpuinfo shows a 2-core processor running at ~1200 BogoMIPS per core on the NAS540, but ~1595 BogoMIPS per core on a My Cloud Gen 2 and ~1300 BogoMIPS per core on a MyCloud Gen 1. Seems a little strange that the NAS540 would report a slower speed than an old My Cloud... That explains a lot, though,…

Sorry for the repeated posts - I didn't see the note at the bottom stating that the post had to be approved. I assumed something had gone wrong and tried to repost (again and again...). Sorry! Beuford

OK - So here is something interesting. It seems that the processor in my NAS540 is a bit slower than anticipated. From the /proc/cpuinfo files of my NAS540, MyCloud Gen 2 and a MyCloud Gen 1: NAS540:*****Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)processor : 0BogoMIPS : 1196.85 processor : 1BogoMIPS : 1196.85 Features : swp…

It's usually the web interface.... ;) Funny, though, how Python is always consuming 12 - 20% of the CPU. Memory is nowhere near maxed out, but processor ^ 100% frequently during writes. It's the file system and python competing for CPU resources. I don't have the NAS540 connected to the internet (security); could this be…