fungus1487
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- Joined
- Jan 12, 2012
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Hi All,
First off, great job with FreeNAS 8, i'm completely new to FreeNAS but had the OS up and running within minutes and had setup a zfs volume and shared with a windows network after just a few more.
Initial tests were good i'm getting on average 40MB/s read and 60MB/s write over gigabit lan.
Does that sound right? Writing being faster than reading that is. I understand there is some form of buffer which fills the RAM when writing whilst offloading it to disk as fast as it can but reading is limited by the disk speed? If so why am I getting such poor read speed with the following hardware...
Asus AT5NM10T-I Motherboard
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz
2GB DDR3 RAM
1TB F3 7200rpm SATA 3Gb/s
A suggestion I have seen all over this forum is to increase the RAM but I have been in situations before where throwing RAM at a system in an effort to make it perform better is painting over the underlying issue. If this isn't the case though I will get more RAM, cheers for any help.
First off, great job with FreeNAS 8, i'm completely new to FreeNAS but had the OS up and running within minutes and had setup a zfs volume and shared with a windows network after just a few more.
Initial tests were good i'm getting on average 40MB/s read and 60MB/s write over gigabit lan.
Does that sound right? Writing being faster than reading that is. I understand there is some form of buffer which fills the RAM when writing whilst offloading it to disk as fast as it can but reading is limited by the disk speed? If so why am I getting such poor read speed with the following hardware...
Asus AT5NM10T-I Motherboard
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz
2GB DDR3 RAM
1TB F3 7200rpm SATA 3Gb/s
A suggestion I have seen all over this forum is to increase the RAM but I have been in situations before where throwing RAM at a system in an effort to make it perform better is painting over the underlying issue. If this isn't the case though I will get more RAM, cheers for any help.