I'm setting up my first FreeNAS and doing performance tests of SMB shares.
If I read or write, from Mac or Windows, a single large (6 GB) file, I get between 80-110 MB/s, which seems to be what I'd expect.
But if, instead of a single big file, I test with a big folder with many files, big and small, then performance is significantly worse (20-50 MB/s). I would expect it to be somewhat slower, but the magnitude surprises me. Is this expected?
(My hardware is from iXsystems: Xeon E5-2630 v4 @ 2.2 GHz, 64 GiB RAM, 1 pool with: 2 vdevs of 2 mirrored HDDs and 200 GB SSD SLOG, 4x1GbE using LACP.)
If I read or write, from Mac or Windows, a single large (6 GB) file, I get between 80-110 MB/s, which seems to be what I'd expect.
But if, instead of a single big file, I test with a big folder with many files, big and small, then performance is significantly worse (20-50 MB/s). I would expect it to be somewhat slower, but the magnitude surprises me. Is this expected?
(My hardware is from iXsystems: Xeon E5-2630 v4 @ 2.2 GHz, 64 GiB RAM, 1 pool with: 2 vdevs of 2 mirrored HDDs and 200 GB SSD SLOG, 4x1GbE using LACP.)