TheWildUnicorn
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Hi everyone! I've wanted a NAS at my house for a long time, and I decided that building a FreeNAS box would be a great learning opportunity. For now, I'm just exploring with a cheap machine from my university surplus store.
The issue I'm having is that when I try to transfer a folder of files from my Windows 10 or MacOS machine (both connected over wifi) to my NAS, the write speeds are dreadful. The speeds sit between 1 MB/s and 1.7 MB/s. When I copy the folder of files back to my Windows 10 machine, the read speeds are between 1 MB/s and 3 MB/s. If I transfer the same folder of files from my NAS to my MacOS machine, I get much higher read speeds at about 22 MB/s. I do mean MB/s not Mb/s. I also switched over to having my pool only on an SSD just to help identify where the slowdown was coming from. There's no important data on anything yet. I'm still just playing around.
I've set up a standard SMB share and a couple of users in a group to access it.
I've attached a screenshot of what happens when I use dd to test write performance. It's not exactly slow, but I'm also not sure if what I ran is a good test of raw write performance.
Here are the specs for what I'm running:
FreeNAS version: FreeNAS-11.2-U2.1
Machine: HP Z220 (some components are HP specific)
Motherboard: HP 655842-601
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
RAM quantity: 16 GB
Hard Drive: Sandisk SSD Plus 240 GB SDSSDA-240G
Hard Disk Controller (on motherboard): Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
Network Controller (on motherboard): Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Lewisville) (rev 04)
Let me know if you have any ideas of how I can figure out where the bottleneck is coming from and if there's any more information I can provide that would be useful. Thanks!
The issue I'm having is that when I try to transfer a folder of files from my Windows 10 or MacOS machine (both connected over wifi) to my NAS, the write speeds are dreadful. The speeds sit between 1 MB/s and 1.7 MB/s. When I copy the folder of files back to my Windows 10 machine, the read speeds are between 1 MB/s and 3 MB/s. If I transfer the same folder of files from my NAS to my MacOS machine, I get much higher read speeds at about 22 MB/s. I do mean MB/s not Mb/s. I also switched over to having my pool only on an SSD just to help identify where the slowdown was coming from. There's no important data on anything yet. I'm still just playing around.
I've set up a standard SMB share and a couple of users in a group to access it.
I've attached a screenshot of what happens when I use dd to test write performance. It's not exactly slow, but I'm also not sure if what I ran is a good test of raw write performance.
Here are the specs for what I'm running:
FreeNAS version: FreeNAS-11.2-U2.1
Machine: HP Z220 (some components are HP specific)
Motherboard: HP 655842-601
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
RAM quantity: 16 GB
Hard Drive: Sandisk SSD Plus 240 GB SDSSDA-240G
Hard Disk Controller (on motherboard): Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
Network Controller (on motherboard): Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Lewisville) (rev 04)
Let me know if you have any ideas of how I can figure out where the bottleneck is coming from and if there's any more information I can provide that would be useful. Thanks!