derekholland
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- Oct 25, 2011
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I installed Freenas 8.01. This is cool stuff and I am loving it. Anyway, I have 4 x 2 TB drives and a Gigabit network. I am using this NAS for a VMWAre lab. Since I have so much storage, I want to also use it for backups and simple storage, like movies and MP3s. I notice that when I copy large files, 4-8 Gig, it takes a long time and the network is barely getting hit. Maybe 10 Meg at most. Running Perfmon, it appears that my bottleneck is the disks. I setup my disks as Raid 5 on a Highpoint Raid controller card and a ZFS volume. I am going to remove the raid from controller, setup JBOS, and then create the RAID within FREENAS. I was wondering if adding a SSD drive would help with performance? If it can help, how would it best be setup?
I don't have the SSD yet. I was going to get a Crucial C300 64 Gig. I am open to other options. Thanks in advance to any and all help.
I don't have the SSD yet. I was going to get a Crucial C300 64 Gig. I am open to other options. Thanks in advance to any and all help.