Really slow CIFS read/write

[BBG]

Hello,
Complete newbie here. Just finished setting up FreeNAS box on my new HP Proliant Microserver N54L. But I'm only getting about 4Mb/s write speed while copying files from my windows 8 PC to a FreeNAS box via CIFS.
Hardware-
HP Proliant N54L
6 gigs of RAM
250gig HDD that came with the box and Seagate barracuda XT 3TB HDD( Pulled from USB 3.0 Seagate goflex desk external HDD)
Built in NIC.

Any suggestions are highly appreciated.
Thanks to the awesome community.

 

[cyberjock]

Your hard drives pass SMART long and short tests? That slow is almost certainly either misconfigured FreeNAS or failing hard drive.

 

[rm-r]

hows the read speed? gig lan?

 

[BBG]

Your hard drives pass SMART long and short tests? That slow is almost certainly either misconfigured FreeNAS or failing hard drive.

Here's the screenshot of the SMART Test result-

Looking forward for the solution.
Thank you

 

[BBG]

hows the read speed? gig lan?

Yes, it's a gig lan and read speed is also pretty much same as write speed.
Btw, I have Netgear WNDR3400V2 Router connected to the modem and all pc's and Freenas box is connected to the router.
Thanks

 

[cyberjock]

Ok, hard drives pass the long test. ada0 is almost certainly either super small or an SSD. No 1TB+ hard drive completes a long test in less than an hour. Also, running long tests does actually slow down your drive while you are running the test, so you don't need to keep running it non-stop. ;)

Was that 4MB/sec over wireless?

 

[rm-r]

cyberjock - could he use dd to test the raw drive speeds? i seem to remember a command to read / write an amount from a large (.iso for example) file and it will measure the speeds as give a little report...

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/testing-disk-speed-the-dd-test-31069

something like that? just to rule out the drives

 

[gpsguy]

If you look at page 13 of your router manual, you'd know that you don't have a gigabit LAN.

"Four local area network (LAN) 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports for connecting the router to your local computers".



If your other devices are gigabit capable, add a gigabit switch behind the router and connect your devices to it. And, connect the switch to your router.

Yes, it's a gig lan ...

Btw, I have Netgear WNDR3400V2 Router connected to the modem and all pc's and Freenas box is connected to the router.

 

[cyberjock]

If you look at page 13 of your router manual, you'd know that you don't have a gigabit LAN.

"Four local area network (LAN) 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports for connecting the router to your local computers".



If your other devices are gigabit capable, add a gigabit switch behind the router and connect your devices to it. And, connect the switch to your router.

And with that realization from gpsguy, I'm bailing on this thread. If the OP can't identify gigabit hardware for himself I really do better use of my time elsewhere. Good luck to all!

 

[BBG]

My bad for not figuring out the lan speed of my router. As I'm a complete newbie, I would beg a pardon for not doing a research on my router itself. I'll give a shot to either different router or use my SMCD3GNV router/modem from comcast. Wifi signal range is horrible on this specific modem/router. Thats why I went with netgear router, however didn't realize that it is only 10/100 lan.
Thank you for all your inputs. I'll switch it over and post the results.

Update: I disabled the bridge mode on my modem/router and directly connected everything to it and now getting around 50-60MB/s write speed. Is that normal? Or still below normal?
Thank you all for your effort to point out the cause.

 

[BBG]

Ok, hard drives pass the long test. ada0 is almost certainly either super small or an SSD. No 1TB+ hard drive completes a long test in less than an hour. Also, running long tests does actually slow down your drive while you are running the test, so you don't need to keep running it non-stop. ;)

Was that 4MB/sec over wireless?

Yes, over wireless. And yes, ada0 is only 250gig as I mentioned in the starting of this thread. As a newbie, I just played it with SMART settings and got that settings set up somehow but now I deleted that setting.
Thanks for your help.

 

[rm-r]

i suggest, using the 10/100 lan and you should get 10mb - then if you swap to gig lan then you should be around the 90mb mark - wifi is not a good measure of the NAS performance - its far to slow. also with only one disk you are unlikely to saturate you gig lan.... maybe 50 - 60 would be about right but depends on your setup

 

[BBG]

i suggest, using the 10/100 lan and you should get 10mb - then if you swap to gig lan then you should be around the 90mb mark - wifi is not a good measure of the NAS performance - its far to slow. also with only one disk you are unlikely to saturate you gig lan.... maybe 50 - 60 would be about right but depends on your setup

Setup, like?
And yes, thats about right, I used to get about 11 MB/s over LAN and 4 MB/s over Wifi using 10/100 LAN.

 

[gpsguy]

That's normal for your system. You have a 2.2GHz laptop CPU in your N54L.

CIFS is single threaded, fast CPU's will give you better performance.

I disabled the bridge mode on my modem/router and directly connected everything to it and now getting around 50-60MB/s write speed. Is that normal? Or still below normal?

 

[SmallGuy]

B=Byte; b=bit
1MB/s=8Mb/s
Theoretical wifi bandwidth is 54mb/s (max about 25mb/s practically) for 802.11g, 300mb/s (max about 100mb/s practically) for 802.11n
Theoretical 100LAN bandwidth is 100mb/s.
The there is also the capacity of your client to take into account: practically impossible to saturate a gigabit LAN with a single client using a classical drive. In that case, if you want to do a performance test, you have also to install specific tools on your client to be able to saturate the GigLAN...
So at first glance, regarding the results you got with the network you describe don't indicate to me you got a problem with Freenas.