Performance after update to Maverick a total disaster.

Apple doesn't write the NAS software.

Nothing to do with the NAS software as its failing on numerous hardware platforms. Apple do write AFP and its since upgrading to Mavericks that everybody is having the problems so ball squarely back in Apple's court.

Exactly flexiboy. If something works fine for years, why not just make Mavericks compatible and improve it going forward for things that can take advantage of it. It is great that Apple moves forward in something but I shouldn't have to get rid of a perfectly fine $2k network storage device that has worked fine for years with both Mac and Windows devices. I want functionality too.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Feedback

Synology updated DSM 4.3 on Jan 9, 2014. Has anyone tried it? I'm waiting to update to Mavericks until the NAS problem is fixed.

Nope problem still remains and seem not to be a Synology issue.

Mavericks caused it for me and from what I see a lot of other people too.

Waiting on Apple but not holding my breath 😟

I am having similar issues as well:

- Spinning wheel of death appearing very often.

I have a mid 2013 Mac Air. Everything was OK beofre the instaltion of the Mavericks OS.

I have plenty of HD space, memory is quite fine. I am not using any heavy application, just the browser, but the system still shows symptoms of being overloaded.

It isn't Apple's responsibility if you get ripped off by buying junk. You spent $2k for that device? How much did the makers of that device spend for networking software and compatibility testing? I'll tell you - $0.

Mavericks works fine with standards-compliant devices. Unfortunately, there are lots of consumer devices that rely on open source software like Netatalk that has plagued users for years. This has been a recurring problem since Lion in 2011. Did Apple change something that broken the NAS device? You bet they did! In 2002.

I have the exact same problems the OP describes, only my NAS is a Buffalo Linkstation Duo. Otherwise - same problems.

My Windows computers (XP, Vista, 7) access the NAS with lightning speed.

My MacBook Pro did so too before the upgrade to Mavericks.

Mavericks networking is so slow that it is actually unuseable. I stopped using Time Machine because it doesn't work anymore (used to work OK) with the NAS. It is simply not able to complete the hourly backup within an hour - how sad is that. Opening folders on the NAS takes forever.

The funny thing is - I have FileBrowser App on my iPad, as well as on my iPhone - both iOS7 - and access to the NAS in FB is also very fast.

And another thing - I also own an older Linkstation model (year 2004) and this older NAS can't even be accessed from the MacBook because apparently the older SMB version is not supported anymore. How about that?

As one would expect - everything else on my network can access the older Linkstation perfectly fine, including my iPad and iPhone with FileBrowser App.

This means my brand new MacBook Pro (bought it in May 2013) is now reduced to tasks for which an iPad would be sufficient such as basic e-mail and web browsing. For manipulating media (music and pictures) over the network it is too slow or the NAS can't be accessed at all.

I am totally convinced OS X / Mavericks is the problem. And I am deeply disappointed in Apple for releasing such crappy software.

One thing that I have noticed since upgrading is that the Finder needs to be constantly 'nudged' for files to be copied using the latest DSM on a Synology DS213+.

What I find myself doing is copying a file (say from my Macbook to the NAS) and at the same time, I open another folder on the NAS that has plenty of files inside.

I then scroll up and down the open window and this kicks the Finder and the speeds are what they should be 60-80mb a second.

It's far from ideal but until this gets fixed by Apple, it's the best option I've found.

Regards

edit: If anyone else tries this and finds it works, please could you post it here?

Do you have your iPhoto Library located on the NAS? If so read Terence Devlin's post in this topic: iPhoto 11 and NAS: Apple Support Communities

OT

Any news on this? I'm still holding to Mountain Lion on my iMac as Mavericks on my Air is doing around 10 MB/s tops, when my ML iMac is doing 70 or 80 MB/s. Both very close on the same network with category 6 cable.

I can't believe they broke AFP so badly.

Has anyone actually contacted Apple and created a ticket for this?

Thanks!

Once your machine finishes Spotlight indexing, CPU load decreases significantly... let it run to completion.

You can also repair permissions thru Disk Utlity.

Unfortuantely the problem still remains. Hopefully a fix soon.

This is pretty ridiculous. I'm trying to back up my Aperture library before leaving on safari and my Synology stalls out within 230MB. Pretty miserable when you have to fallback to FTP to copy the files over.

Apple didn't necessarily want to redevelop SMB but the new Samba license wasn't palatable to Apple (GPLv3), so Apple had to redevelop a work alike system. You'd think for all the resources that Apple has they could do better and support NAS vendors better with documentation and engineers.

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/24/apple-to-drop-samba-networking-tools-from-lion/