Best (and fastest) Way To Move Files From Win10 Computer To My FreeNAS Machine.

[rivey]

Probably another noobie question but here goes. I am primarily using my FreeNAS machine for Plex. I will continue to use my desktop Win10 machine to rip disks. I ripped a Blu-ray disk and went to transfer it to the FreeNAS share and the one directory with 4 files took about an hour to transfer. I have been searching the forums to find a solution for this but nothing yet. So the question is, what is the best and fastest way to transfer files to the FreeNAS box. This might also come into play when I want to backup things like my Quickbook files. As usual, thanks for all help and idea's. Bob Ivey

 

[Xelas]

How big are the files?
Are the 2 systems connected via network cables, or is a wireless network involved?
Are you ripping to the local drive, then coping the image files, or are you ripping straight into the share?
When you look at the reporting section in Freenas, what disk usage are you seeing during these transfers?
How full is your storage?
Please describe the hardware configuration of your server.

 

[danb35]

I ripped a Blu-ray disk and went to transfer it to the FreeNAS share and the one directory with 4 files took about an hour to transfer. I have been searching the forums to find a solution for this but nothing yet.

A full rip of a Blu-Ray disk is 30+ GB--there's nothing to solve here. You could likely speed things up a bit by using 10G networking, though that can get expensive.

 

[rivey]

As danb35 stated, the file size is about 30+ GB. The systems are connected on a network that is 1gig. Only use wireless for phones and tablets. Being a low voltage contractor, I have more network cable in my house than the average small business. I am ripping the Blu-Ray to a folder on my desktop machine and then copying it to the shared drive of the freeNAS box. The FreeNAS box is a temporary configuration using my previous desktop motherboard, memory, processor, etc. I am working on putting together a proper FreeNAS server with server hardware. As for storage, I have 4 8TB WD Red drives in a Z1 configuration and the current used space is less that 25%.

danb35, I am leaning towards your thought of going with 10G cards on the server and the desktop so they are tied together. Down the road, I will upgrade my network to accommodate 10G but that will have to wait until I put together the proper server. I will probably use parts from ebay as recommended by Chris Moore. At some point, I will also want to backup some of my data to the FreeNAS box besides the cloud backup that we are already using.

 

[danb35]

If you're just connecting the two machines, all you need are two 10G NICs (Chelsio T410/T420 would be a good choice, and they're widely available used) and a suitable cable. It's highly unlikely you're going to come close to saturating that, but it will remove the network connection as a bottleneck.

 

[rivey]

If you're just connecting the two machines, all you need are two 10G NICs (Chelsio T410/T420 would be a good choice, and they're widely available used) and a suitable cable. It's highly unlikely you're going to come close to saturating that, but it will remove the network connection as a bottleneck.

Those are some of the NICs I was looking at earlier. Thanks.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MNPA19-XTR...10Gbe-SFP-Network-Card-NEW-PULLS/122603690508

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Arista-CAB...Meter-SFP-Twinax-Copper-Cable-US/232969473587

How would these card and the cable work? Seem to be reasonably priced. The Chelsio were considerably more expensive.

 

[Chris Moore]

As for storage, I have 4 8TB WD Red drives in a Z1 configuration

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How would these card and the cable work? Seem to be reasonably priced. The Chelsio were considerably more expensive.

You might want to look at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgNpI6VAAhI

But don't get dragged in and build a switch that way. This is much more economical:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Aruba-S250...ASE-T-4x1000BASE-X-10GBASE-X-KMJ/232504836333

We have a little discussion thread about it over in networking. It just takes a firmware update and some setting changes to get the four 10Gb ports working for connecting computers instead of only for stacking.