I'm sure this has been beaten to death. others have asked it but they seem to be old threads.
I'm trying to ascertain if the network performance of my nas is reasonable given its hardware or if something is 'off'.
my nas (truenas core latest stable) consists of the following hardware:
supermicro x11ssh-f motherboard (flashed with latest firmware).
i3-7100T cpu.
32GB ram (ecc)
onboard nics are intels (210 i believe).
first slot (closest to cpu) is an intel x710-da2)
2nd slot - LSI 9200-based HBA in IT mode.
5 spinners attached to the HBA card (these store video/music) -set as raid-Z (so, the raid 5 equivalent).
2 SSD's mirrored for file storage (legal docs, resumes, generally the most important files).
2 SSD's for the OS.
1 NVME set as a zil for the 5 spinners.
the truenas box is bare metal and ONLY a nas.. there are NO other apps/services (no plex, or anything of that nature).
i have another download station that runs win10 that handles plex/downloads/video processing etc..) it too has a x710-da2 nic (bought at the same time as a pair. the nas and win10 box are connected by dac.
when transferring movies from the win10 box to the truenas core box, all starts off at 10Gb/s, but after a few seconds (maybe 5 or so), it the transfer:
spinners - drops down to 2-300Mb/s.. (400 if i disable hyperthreading).
SSDs - drops down to 450Mbs.
i guess i can delete the nvme and reformat it as a regular shared dataset and see if the problem still exists.
I guess i just can't imagine, even with that little cpu, 10G throughput would be a struggle.
lastly, i've made a bunch of hardware changes and blah blah.. maybe it just needs a fresh re-install of the os, however i'd like the opinions of the pros (you folks) to see if that's really 'it'. with those nics, ram, and generally the hardware that makes up the nas, i would've thought (on my humble little network at least) sustained 10G would be easy from one machine to the other.
Thanks in advance!
I'm trying to ascertain if the network performance of my nas is reasonable given its hardware or if something is 'off'.
my nas (truenas core latest stable) consists of the following hardware:
supermicro x11ssh-f motherboard (flashed with latest firmware).
i3-7100T cpu.
32GB ram (ecc)
onboard nics are intels (210 i believe).
first slot (closest to cpu) is an intel x710-da2)
2nd slot - LSI 9200-based HBA in IT mode.
5 spinners attached to the HBA card (these store video/music) -set as raid-Z (so, the raid 5 equivalent).
2 SSD's mirrored for file storage (legal docs, resumes, generally the most important files).
2 SSD's for the OS.
1 NVME set as a zil for the 5 spinners.
the truenas box is bare metal and ONLY a nas.. there are NO other apps/services (no plex, or anything of that nature).
i have another download station that runs win10 that handles plex/downloads/video processing etc..) it too has a x710-da2 nic (bought at the same time as a pair. the nas and win10 box are connected by dac.
when transferring movies from the win10 box to the truenas core box, all starts off at 10Gb/s, but after a few seconds (maybe 5 or so), it the transfer:
spinners - drops down to 2-300Mb/s.. (400 if i disable hyperthreading).
SSDs - drops down to 450Mbs.
i guess i can delete the nvme and reformat it as a regular shared dataset and see if the problem still exists.
I guess i just can't imagine, even with that little cpu, 10G throughput would be a struggle.
lastly, i've made a bunch of hardware changes and blah blah.. maybe it just needs a fresh re-install of the os, however i'd like the opinions of the pros (you folks) to see if that's really 'it'. with those nics, ram, and generally the hardware that makes up the nas, i would've thought (on my humble little network at least) sustained 10G would be easy from one machine to the other.
Thanks in advance!