So I have been scouring the forums looking to maximize our investments in hardware, but I haven't found much useful info yet, so if this is a repeat of a previous thread, just point me in that direction and I will continue reading. We are using Freenas as a repository for our backups from Veeam, RSYNC, Acronis, etc. so I am not looking for the fastest I/O just a good value of disk write performance and capacity.
We have been using various Freenas boxes over the past several years for this operation, but we have just acquired some new hardware via (45drives). The specs are as follows:
Motherboard - X10DRL
CPU - Dual E52620 v4
RAM - 256GB ECC (I have seen soooo many threads referencing lack of memory and we have run into that as well on other devices so I wanted to give this unit plenty)
HBA - 2 Rocket 750
NIC - 10GB optical
Drives - 30 - 8TB WD Purple 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB cache
I create 3 volumes of 10 drives each with RAIDZ2. In testing the first volume from one of our backup servers we have created a CIFS and NFS share. I would prefer to use NFS, but in initial tests from a windows server with a 1GB NIC the transfer rates were:
NFS - 45Mb/s
CIFS - 110Mb/s
I have tested iperf to 930Mb/s which is to be expected on the network. Any ideas for better write performance?
We have been using various Freenas boxes over the past several years for this operation, but we have just acquired some new hardware via (45drives). The specs are as follows:
Motherboard - X10DRL
CPU - Dual E52620 v4
RAM - 256GB ECC (I have seen soooo many threads referencing lack of memory and we have run into that as well on other devices so I wanted to give this unit plenty)
HBA - 2 Rocket 750
NIC - 10GB optical
Drives - 30 - 8TB WD Purple 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB cache
I create 3 volumes of 10 drives each with RAIDZ2. In testing the first volume from one of our backup servers we have created a CIFS and NFS share. I would prefer to use NFS, but in initial tests from a windows server with a 1GB NIC the transfer rates were:
NFS - 45Mb/s
CIFS - 110Mb/s
I have tested iperf to 930Mb/s which is to be expected on the network. Any ideas for better write performance?