FreeNAS EXTREMELY slow transfer

[Snake3y3s]

Hi all

So I went out to get a 8TB Seagate backup drive as a cold storage and I'm trying to copy files from my NAS to it now and I'm getting a horrible transfer speed (average 900 kbytes/s)

I probably also have it connected in the most inefficient way, but transfer speeds should not be that low at all, even going from the NAS to my PC.
I have the backup drive plugged into my windows machine, so I am transferring from NAS across the network to my machine to USB backup drive.

I have been having issues with the NAS with speed in general ( check this thread https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/freenas-discord.89874/) so that might be the main culprit of the slow transfer, and general sluggishness of the NAS, but i need to get the data backed up before I attempt anything further on the NAS.
I am planning on replacing the Red Drive (ada3) as soon as I have cash again, but thought a cold storage would be better at this moment.

Can anyone give me advice on what to do to try speed this process up?

 

[sretalla]

If what you're calling a "backup drive" is actually the 8TB Archive model (see here: https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/cmr-smr-list/), you have an SMR disk which isn't appropriate for ZFS.

See also: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/list-of-known-smr-drives.141/

 

[Snake3y3s]

Negative...
it is an external model:

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[sretalla]

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Well, based on this:

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mattgadient.com

It seems you may have a Barracuda Pro, which is CMR (although not guaranteed to be so).

So we can rule out that as part of the issue... although you are connecting it to Windows, so not using ZFS in any case.

 

[Snake3y3s]

yeah, its just a single external drive meant as a cold storage backup.