Slow without GPU

[TurningDisks]

Dear,

Recently I made a NAS, when reading the forums I came to the conclusion I do not need a GPU within my NAS.

Motherboard: AsRock B365M
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2400MHZ
CPU: Intel Core I3-9100F
Disks: 1 SSD, 2 HDD (Currently)

When I do not have a GPU install the transfer speed for uploading and downloading are arround 2/5 MB/s
But the moment I install a GPU I get the full speed I can reach with my current network configuration.

I tried a GTX 650 TI Boost, GTX 1070 and an old Nvidia GPU from ~2001

Does anyone else has this problem and is there a way to solve this?

 

[Chris Moore]

That system board does have integrated video output, but the CPU you specified does not have any integrated video hardware. Because of that, when you remove the video card from the system, the system board probably performs terribly because it is in an error state.
This is most likely a hardware selection problem because of that gaming board and has nothing at all to do with FreeNAS. FreeNAS does not use the video hardware for anything but a local text console. There is even a way to configure FreeNAS to use a serial port for output to a remote text console. FreeNAS absolutely does not need any of those video cards but we have seen plenty of these gaming boards that could not deal with not having a video card, either integrated in the CPU or in a slot. The thing you probably should do, sell that gaming board and buy a server board instead. That way you could have ECC memory, which is better for reliability. Even a used server board from three years ago would be better than any gaming board ever made, when it comes to what FreeNAS needs to have for storage.

 

[Chris Moore]

PS. It doesn't hurt anything to have a video card in there, but you can use the cheapest one you can find. FreeNAS is only using it for text.

I bought a couple like this to use in systems with no integrated video, just so I could see the text display to get FreeNAS installed:

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[TurningDisks]

Thank you very much, That explains why i will look into the GPU's