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I just checked the running processes and found that the antivirus was running and was taking up about 25% of CPU usage. It looks like it has been running for weeks. Thankfully the CPU usage drop has improved performance a little but there is a process called 'smdb' still taking up 40-50% of...

I installed the new Gigabit switch today. It seems to have made a small improvement on tranfer speeds. I tried transferring a 300 MB file to the NAS and am now getting about 16MB/sec transfer speed (up from 10MB/sec). The image below shows resouce monitor over about 5 minute time frame...

They all have gigabit network speed

Thanks. Had a look at my current switch and its only 10/100. I checked my network speed and am only getting 10 MB/80Mbps I have a new TP-Link gigabit switch on order now so Ill see if that makes any significant difference.

Thanks for the advice. Ill go for a switch upgrade first before I look at the NAS. All things being equal, would I see a significant difference in day-to-day performance between say my DS209 and a newer machine?

I'd imagine it's unlikely to be gigabit due to its age. It's a basic unmanaged switch with 16 ports I think. I think I'll try a new unmanaged gigbit switch for now. I presume there are all basically the same or do I need to look out for anything in particular?

I'm not sure about the LAN. The wiring is all relatively new (cat 5e?) however we have a switch that we had in a previous premesis that may be 10-15 years old. Is it possible that this is the weak link? Though I can see the cpu usage being maxed sometimes out on the Synology when moving files...

Hello I have a small office which is currently using a Synology DS209 (2 bay) for hosting all our files (locally). We have it a couple of years but find it slow at times to open/save files. There are typically 4-5 pcs accessing files at any one time, the individual file sizes can be up to 30mb...