Slow Browsing Folders on NAS from iMac Only

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For some reason its pretty slow to view files and folders in finder on my Mac.

Im connected directly to the NAS on a gigabit connection (switch and cat 5e cables). I've tested the speed of the NAS from my Mac at roughly 30mb/s write and 80-90mb/s read so its not the NAS thats slow. Ive also connected wirelessly to the NAS via a windows laptop and it displays the files and folders perfectly.

Any ideas what i can do?

Its a Seagate Central 3tb NAS btw.

Thanks in advance.

Phil.
 
Im not sure what it connects to straight out of the box as it just appears as a shared drive no matter if i eject it.

Ive connected to it via AFP, SMB and CIFS, but all three seem sluggish. Does it take a while to index or something or should it be quick straight away?
 
a quick google suggests the device isnt the fastest (especially for writes), in fact it gets quite a lot of slating.

going back to your OP, are you saying that wireless it works fine. but with gigait cable (and wireless switched off) its an issue?
 
Yeah ive read the reviews on speed, but the test above doesnt appear *that* bad. Certainly not as slow as im seeing.

Correct, slow on 100 and 1000mbit connections, I've not tried wireless from my mac or wired from my windows PC to the mac yet. All brand new 1 meter cables, brand new gigabit switch. Swapped all the cables out for the older ones, tried it without the gigabit switch using my sky router as the switch too. Same slow listing of files/folders. Really seems like a mac/yosemite issue so far. My mac reports the network as a gigabit network too.

Thanks for the help tho. :)
 
Make sure Finder isn't indexing it, seen this multiple times :(
 
We've seen the shares being indexed Neil and had to exclude them. It shouldn't, but it was :p
 
Seems to be slightly quicker at the moment, i entered this into terminal and added the drive as an smb not afp.

sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0

I'll stop finder from indexing it tonight as well. Its still not as quick as accessing it on the wifi on my windows machine tho.
 
neil_g said:
good old apple, they never really get networking right do they.
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Nope. Never.

This is the main thing that's making me delay Yosemite. My network works ATM (though the QNAP drive is slower than it should be) but all of the major fubars of recent OS upgrades have been in networking. It's like they want you to use local drives or something.
 
I would like to connect using AFP but its slow as hell. My server address is afp://SeagateNAS._afpovertcp._tcp.local which takes ages, but if i map smb://MYIPADDRESS then its much quicker.
 
Poor Mac support on that drive then perhaps. Like I say drive appears to get poor reviews for speed and/or Mac.

I wouldn't rely on smb on mac personally seeing what damage it can cause.
 
Yeah I might send Seagate an email, probably won't get anything but its better than nothing. I don't think its to do with drive speed when testing it from a mac is showing the read write speeds as more than adequate and its fast from my windows laptop, just as fast as browsing the HDD contents.
 
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