Despite being new to FreeNAS, over the past few months of use I have really come to appreciate how powerful it is as a storage operating system (in particular ZFS with adequate RAM!).
Drive Setup:
6x WD Red 3TB in Raid-Z2 (Half the drives have the 80.00 firmware, the others have 82.00)
4 connected via SATA2 onboard controller, 2 via SATA3 marvell controller (88SE9128 chipset)
Storage Pool settings:
Sync: Standard
Compression level: lz4
Share Type: Windows
Enable Atime: off
Case Sensitivity: Sensitive (greyed out)
Windows (SMB) Share settings:
Browsable to Network Clients: ticked
VFS Objects: zfsacl, zfs_space
SMB Service settings:
Local Master: ticked
Time Server for Domain: ticked
Auxiliary parameters:
ea support = no
store dos attributes = no
map archive = no
map hidden = no
map readonly = no
map system = no
Bind addresses: two IPs on separate networks
N.B. Added the auxiliary parameters this morning for some testing but it seems to have only improved windows directory listing timings when opening music directories with hundreds of files... not the read speeds.
At the moment I have consistent write speeds (from my Windows PC [Ryzen 1600x OC 4Ghz, 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz RAM, Samsung 850 Pro SSD, Gigabit NIC] to the FreeNAS 11.2-U2.1 server) of a beautiful 112MB/s for a single large file, which I understand is basically fully saturating a gigabit NIC, when taking overhead (& Windows) into account.
Yet my read speeds from the server are possibly quite low at 65-67MB/s. Iperf speed tests have also delivered results in the 528Mbps range, yet copying a large file from my laptop to my pc yields speeds of 112MB/s. This leads me to think the problem could be with my FreeNAS setup.
I hope the complete specs for my server in my signature and the additional info given in this post will be enough for someone to be able to point me in the right direction.
If any additional information is required, I would be happy to post screenshots of shell command outputs.
Drive Setup:
6x WD Red 3TB in Raid-Z2 (Half the drives have the 80.00 firmware, the others have 82.00)
4 connected via SATA2 onboard controller, 2 via SATA3 marvell controller (88SE9128 chipset)
Storage Pool settings:
Sync: Standard
Compression level: lz4
Share Type: Windows
Enable Atime: off
Case Sensitivity: Sensitive (greyed out)
Windows (SMB) Share settings:
Browsable to Network Clients: ticked
VFS Objects: zfsacl, zfs_space
SMB Service settings:
Local Master: ticked
Time Server for Domain: ticked
Auxiliary parameters:
ea support = no
store dos attributes = no
map archive = no
map hidden = no
map readonly = no
map system = no
Bind addresses: two IPs on separate networks
N.B. Added the auxiliary parameters this morning for some testing but it seems to have only improved windows directory listing timings when opening music directories with hundreds of files... not the read speeds.
At the moment I have consistent write speeds (from my Windows PC [Ryzen 1600x OC 4Ghz, 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz RAM, Samsung 850 Pro SSD, Gigabit NIC] to the FreeNAS 11.2-U2.1 server) of a beautiful 112MB/s for a single large file, which I understand is basically fully saturating a gigabit NIC, when taking overhead (& Windows) into account.
Yet my read speeds from the server are possibly quite low at 65-67MB/s. Iperf speed tests have also delivered results in the 528Mbps range, yet copying a large file from my laptop to my pc yields speeds of 112MB/s. This leads me to think the problem could be with my FreeNAS setup.
I hope the complete specs for my server in my signature and the additional info given in this post will be enough for someone to be able to point me in the right direction.
If any additional information is required, I would be happy to post screenshots of shell command outputs.
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