70MB/s vs. Wire-Speed 1GBe

[Makki]

Hi, just a short question:

My SoHo-Freenas (see footer) gives me about 70MB/s measured with bonnie over NFS; thats pretty ok but well, I'm greedy - I want 1GBe wire-speed..
Its not CPU (no encryption used) and probably also not RAM (this board is maxed out at 16GB ECC).
Its planned anyway to replace the WD20xxxx Green with WD Red 4TB if they fail (what they are not supposed to do! dozens others work very reliable in several systems for many, many years now!)

Would I benefit from replacing the oldest WD20EADS/WD20EARS with WD Red?

Michael

 

[gpsguy]

Please include your hardware info and version of FreeNAS in the body of your message. Those of us on mobile devices can't see your signature.

What kind of hardware does your client have? Any Realtek NICs in the mix?

 

[Makki]

Please include your hardware info and version of FreeNAS in the body of your message. Those of us on mobile devices can't see your signature.

OS: FreeNAS 9.10.1-U4
System: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8
CPU: Celeron G1610T
RAM: 16GB ECC (2x Kingston KTH-PL316E/8G)
Boot: 2 x 16GB SanDisk Ultra Fit
Storage: 4 x 2TB (2xWD20EARX,WD20EADS,WD20EARS) in RaidZ

What kind of hardware does your client have? Any Realtek NICs in the mix?

I know what you mean, Realtek was, is pure crap.
Also in my sig, yes, f*** Realtek RTL8168e/8111e inside (unfortuatey its nearly impossible to buy a notebook with an Intel-NIC (as on the server) :(

Talking about the client, I tried with three different (running Ubuntu, i7, also Intel-NIC), it makes >100Mbit with iperf..

Michael

 

[Makki]

But to sort that out:

Code:

markstaller@v3750-mm-v3:~$ iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------  
Server listening on TCP port 5001  
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)  
------------------------------------------------------------  
[  4] local 172.17.3.142 port 5001 connected with 172.17.3.77 port 56410  
[ ID] Interval  Transfer  Bandwidth  
[  4]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes  931 Mbits/sec  
[  5] local 172.17.3.142 port 5001 connected with 172.17.3.77 port 62952  
[  5]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.10 GBytes  940 Mbits/sec	

Michael