Synology DS411Slim and encryption: DSM 4.0 not helping performance for me

I’ve written recently about the poor performance writing to and reading from an encrypted volume on my Synology DS411Slim.
In an attempt to improve the bad numbers I’ve decided to take the risk of updating from a firmware that I knew was working for me (DSM 3.2) to a more recent one (4.0)

The interface looks sleeker than the previous one, but unfortunately there it is no improvement at all in writing to the encrypted volume.

DSM 4.1 is available too, I’ll likely give a try at it too as there are no major reports of problems.

New gadget at home: Nokia N9

I know that is considered a dead man walking, but N9 looks nice anyway and my mother was looking for a new phone and is not too much into apps.

So I bought one for her and I’ll have one week of time to play with it.

First impression is absolutely positive.

In a week I’ll decide if I’m going to get one for myself too: I’ll post about my decision.