Hello!
I would like to possibly increase system throughput. I think bottleneck is a hard drives I have. Currently I have 2x WD Black WD1001FALS in a mirror. Max I get is about 85Mbps over gigabit network. Looks like this is limit of drives? Also, they are old, almost 4 years now. And I don't mind getting little more storage as well.
I'm planning on adding another mirror. Probably 2 disks at 2TB each. Storage space is not a problem for me. It's more about reliability and speed.
Which hard drives trending today for NAS application? Let's say I want to max out LAN connection.
I have latest 9.3 FreeNAS running on i5 system with 8Gb of RAM.
I would like to possibly increase system throughput. I think bottleneck is a hard drives I have. Currently I have 2x WD Black WD1001FALS in a mirror. Max I get is about 85Mbps over gigabit network. Looks like this is limit of drives? Also, they are old, almost 4 years now. And I don't mind getting little more storage as well.
I'm planning on adding another mirror. Probably 2 disks at 2TB each. Storage space is not a problem for me. It's more about reliability and speed.
Which hard drives trending today for NAS application? Let's say I want to max out LAN connection.
I have latest 9.3 FreeNAS running on i5 system with 8Gb of RAM.