angry aussie
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- May 7, 2013
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Hey all,
a week ago, as a school project, I decided to make a NASBOX.
All went well, I have the server up and running with FreeNAS 8.3.1.
I have 1 issue... The transfer speeds are HORRIBLE.
Transferring a 2GB movie TO the server, speeds are from 3MB/S to 0KB/S.
Reading from the server is a little better, from 4MB/S to 0KB/S.
I think something is bottlenecking my server.
My setup -
Acer Veriton D461 Motherboard
4GB DDR2 RAM
Intel Core 2 DUO 3.00 GHz CPU
450W PSU
RJ-45 Ethernet
1X 5200rpm 2TB HDD
1X 7200rpm 1TB HDD
Router -
Technicolor TG587n v3
4x 1 gigabit LAN ports (NAS is plugged into this)
802.11n (2.4GHz)
Hard drives are SATA2, but that's still at LEAST 300 MB/s read/write.
They are on 60-minute spindown, 2 hour standby. Power level 1.
I transfer/read movies from my Samsun Galaxy S3, and laptop.
Whether I'm reading/transferring through 3 walls, or right next to the router, it makes no difference.
I'm honestly at my wits end. I know that this is possibly the lowest hardware for a NAS, but it's the best I could convince mum and dad to let me buy. (All of the hard ware, apart from the router and hard drives, were for sale as a whole computer from my school for $50.)
Would more RAM make this better? To improve, probably $20 would be the max to make performance better.
Sorry for the huge question, but it would be awesome if I could see better performance.
a week ago, as a school project, I decided to make a NASBOX.
All went well, I have the server up and running with FreeNAS 8.3.1.
I have 1 issue... The transfer speeds are HORRIBLE.
Transferring a 2GB movie TO the server, speeds are from 3MB/S to 0KB/S.
Reading from the server is a little better, from 4MB/S to 0KB/S.
I think something is bottlenecking my server.
My setup -
Acer Veriton D461 Motherboard
4GB DDR2 RAM
Intel Core 2 DUO 3.00 GHz CPU
450W PSU
RJ-45 Ethernet
1X 5200rpm 2TB HDD
1X 7200rpm 1TB HDD
Router -
Technicolor TG587n v3
4x 1 gigabit LAN ports (NAS is plugged into this)
802.11n (2.4GHz)
Hard drives are SATA2, but that's still at LEAST 300 MB/s read/write.
They are on 60-minute spindown, 2 hour standby. Power level 1.
I transfer/read movies from my Samsun Galaxy S3, and laptop.
Whether I'm reading/transferring through 3 walls, or right next to the router, it makes no difference.
I'm honestly at my wits end. I know that this is possibly the lowest hardware for a NAS, but it's the best I could convince mum and dad to let me buy. (All of the hard ware, apart from the router and hard drives, were for sale as a whole computer from my school for $50.)
Would more RAM make this better? To improve, probably $20 would be the max to make performance better.
Sorry for the huge question, but it would be awesome if I could see better performance.