I did a build already but the writes were so slow I am doing it over hoping to improve things.
I understand that w/ enough memory ZFS file system is best but I have only 8G so I'll not be using zfs.
I also understand (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that I ought to format the drives with 4K sector support for best performance.
I'll be using (4) 3T drives that will be mirrored/striped for a 6T total.
That said the formatting options I have in my disk manager are:
btrfs
ext2
ext3
ext4
fat 16 or 32
hfs
jfs
ntfs
xfs
reiser4
reiserfs
BTW, how can I actually measure my read/write speeds?
I already see the NIC is at 1G/full duplex so I turn my attention to the drives themselves.
Thanks all!
RG
I understand that w/ enough memory ZFS file system is best but I have only 8G so I'll not be using zfs.
I also understand (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that I ought to format the drives with 4K sector support for best performance.
I'll be using (4) 3T drives that will be mirrored/striped for a 6T total.
That said the formatting options I have in my disk manager are:
btrfs
ext2
ext3
ext4
fat 16 or 32
hfs
jfs
ntfs
xfs
reiser4
reiserfs
BTW, how can I actually measure my read/write speeds?
I already see the NIC is at 1G/full duplex so I turn my attention to the drives themselves.
Thanks all!
RG