My new NAS box, running on 8.0.2

[Daisuke]

It would also be interesting if someone else with a similar setup could do the same thing. Wonder what value they would get?

My results:

Code:

Computer Name: ZEUS
IP Address   : 192.168.1.4
Folder       : Z:\
                       ---Writing---     ---Reading---
Packet length   :      2,000,000,000     2,000,000,000
Time to complete:      34.9217563        24.3729870
Bytes per second:      57,270,888        82,058,059
Bits per second :      458,167,104       656,464,472
                       -------------     -------------
Mbps:                  458.1671040       656.4644720

 

[supremacy]

Hey Teck,

Any update on the speed? I have the same board as you. Just using some WD Red 2 TB drives. My speed on the zfs volume is fine, with DD command on first page, reaching approx. 280 Mbyte/s read and 160 Mbyte/s write. But through the network, i do not get more than 30 Mbyte/s, no matter if iperf, CIFS or NFS. I've installed Windows Server 2008 R2 on my SSD, created a RAID5 over 5 of the 6 disks. Network speed is 110 and 115 Mbyte/s constant when transfering a 10 GB file. Is there any way to try a different NIC driver in freenas 8.3.0? 30 Mbyte/s is not enough for me.


Just installed OpenIndiana (http://openindiana.org/) with napp-it (http://www.napp-it.org/), network speed is stable at around 70 Mbyte/s. Can't use my ssd as solaris does not support the Rocket620 card :-(, but checkout read speed without SSD when creating and reading a 20 GB file:

{code}
root@nas:/zpool1/vol1# dd if=/dev/zero of=/zpool1/vol1/tmp.dat bs=2048k count=10
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
21474836480 bytes (21 GB) copied, 100.514 s, 214 MB/s
root@nas:/zpool1/vol1# dd if=/zpool1/vol1/tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=10
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
21474836480 bytes (21 GB) copied, 50.4609 s, 426 MB/s
{code}

Pool Config (rpool is my usb stick, see zpool1):
{code}
root@nas:/zpool1/vol1# zpool status
pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
c6t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

pool: zpool1
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zpool1 ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c5t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c5t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c5t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c5t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c5t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c5t5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
{code}

 

[Daisuke]

If you use the same setup, you should get at least 60MB/sec on CIFS. IMO is software related. I cannot explain myself why I used to get 115MB/sec on 8.0.2 release and 65MB/sec on 8.0.4+. Nothing changed on my computer hardware and I proved several times the disks on Windows are not the culprit. I use Intel cards everywhere.

 

[RaGa_MuFFiN]

Oh... I have the excact same setup. But only 4gb of ram and 6x WD Caviar 3tb disks in a zfs raid system.

It's been a bit slow the last time I used it heavily. Would you suggest me upgrading to 8gb of ram (I didn't even think you could do that on this mobo?) And add that extra ssd controller, so I can boot freenas on a small fast ssd disk?

Thanks in advance for your answer!

 

[Daisuke]

Please, read the OP related to my memory findings.

 

[Antioch18]

Any updates on the CIFS performance degradation? Has a bug been filed or the devs been informed?

I'm curious if you looked through the changelog for 8.0.4-p1 to see if there are any changes to the Intel NIC driver of CIFS networking stack... (though Ive heard there are often many undocumented changes, especially if it comes from upstream FreeBSD)

 

[jacobhuh]

Teck,
Any updates on the system? Have you upgraded o 3 TB HDD? Has it run into any problems? Is it still running well?

Jacob

 

[Daisuke]

Same setup, no issues on latest OS version. Still waiting on HD prices to drop... as now 3TB are crazy expensive. I have about 2TB of loose space on my NAS.

 

[ProtoSD]

3TB *are* still a bit expensive. I was able to get 1 WD Red for mine on sale ($135), but still need 5 more. I didn't have any problems replacing one of my 2TB's with a 3TB.

 

[Kosta]

Hi,

Little question: are you using your NAS for something else beside file serving? Like programs, bittorrent, sabnzbd, unpacking files, repairing etc?

 

[Daisuke]

I don't use any plugins.

 

[Daisuke]

Sometimes (random), when I reboot my system, the screen shows "Initializing..." and after few seconds I get the message "No Disk!".

For those having the same issue, I fix it by updating the SSD firmware. I forgot to mention this earlier. :)