I take nightly snapshots of my PC and send them to an external western digital drive connected to the USB 3.0 port on my R7000P. Initial write speeds are fine, over 100 Mbps connected via gigabit ethernet on a fresh reboot. As the days go on, this transfer speed becomes abysmal. I'm at 10 days uptime and my write speeds to the drive has decreased to 12 Mbps, drastically increasing my backup time and my ping skyrockets to 400+ms during this backup process. It almost seems as if I'm DoSing the router with my nightly backups and it can't handle it as all other web traffic slow to a complete crawl. When I reboot my router, write speeds go back to normal, for an undetermined period of time until they go down the drain. Any thoughts? Should I consider RMA? I'm considering buying a cheap NAS but I didn't think I would need to spend another $130+ to get a simple network backup solution, it should work properly with the router as it is advertised as being capable of doing so.
You can see my ping graph here for the past 24 hours, the skyrocket in ping was a backup that took several hours to complete, when under normal circumstances should only take maybe an hour. During that period of time, web usage slows to a crawl, videos can't load and usage of the internet is almost unbearable.
https://i.gyazo.com/b383ac2a7cb239794e343d1149c10a18.png
You can see my ping graph here for the past 24 hours, the skyrocket in ping was a backup that took several hours to complete, when under normal circumstances should only take maybe an hour. During that period of time, web usage slows to a crawl, videos can't load and usage of the internet is almost unbearable.
https://i.gyazo.com/b383ac2a7cb239794e343d1149c10a18.png
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