The behavior you are describing is normal, however, the poor performance is not. I have not had a problem with the self-test causing such a drop in transfer speed, but I think you are the second person reporting the issue.
If NASLite is a launch-and-forget server, then the automatic SMART self-test makes sense, however, it sounds like people shut their system down often, making the boot-time events a common occurrence. In that case I think it may be a good idea to make the SMART self-test a manual admin option rather than an automatic event.
We’ll have to consider this for next release.
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