Transfer Speed on my NAS

[Vode]

Hello everyone, I'm new to Freenas and having some performance concerns with my NAS. I made sure to buy appropriate hardware but the trasnfer speed I'm getting seems a bit low.

First off, my specs:

ASUS x99-A USB3.1 with Intel I218V, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller
Intel 535 Series 240GB
Windows 7 Professional

CAT6 cables to router (300M Wireless N Router Model No. TL-WR841N/TL-WR841ND)

NAS:

ASRock Rack C2550D4I
16GB RAM -> 2x 8GB Sticks of DDR3 1600 ECC Crucial (CT102472BD160B.18FED)
2 x Intel NIC i210
2x HGST DESKSTAR NAS 4TB 7200rpm
FreeNAS-9.10-STABLE-201605021851 (35c85f7)
Dataset is mirrored across the 2 drives in RAID1

Got a CIFS share and the NAS is working so far. I can tranfer and read just fine...BUT... I get around 11-12MB/Second for both reads and writes.


I've googled some and run IPerf to start diagnosing, results are in the png... I think this means the network speed (router) is to blame?

Since I'm pretty new to this and it's a little over my head right now I can't figure out whether this is expected behaviour for my config (only RAID1 and ZFS overhead) or if there is something misconfigured...

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!!! :)

 

[Scareh]

typically it's a 100mb problem with those speeds.
Looking up the specs on your wireless router: it only has 10/100 ports, you need 10/100/1000 to get higher speeds then 12mb/s

 

[UdoB]

Is the router this one? --> http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-9_TL-WR841N.html

It has 100 MBit/s Ports. This means theoretical up to 12.5 MB/s, usually a little bit less that this...

Best regards

 

[Vode]

Oh shoot... Feel like a noob. Lol

Will try another router... Thanks for your time!

 

[joeschmuck]

Instead of buying a new router which could be expensive, just toss in a 1Gbit switch, wire up all your LAN connections to this and then one cable to the Router. You can buy a 5 port, 8 port (what I'd suggest) switch, just ensure it has the proper connectivity speeds.

 

[Vode]

Instead of buying a new router which could be expensive, just toss in a 1Gbit switch, wire up all your LAN connections to this and then one cable to the Router. You can buy a 5 port, 8 port (what I'd suggest) switch, just ensure it has the proper connectivity speeds.

OK thanks I'll do that. Do you happen to know what speed I can roughly expect with a proper switch and my configuration?

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Somewhere in the region of 800Mbps when transferring a large file.

 

[Stux]

Shows you the truth about 300mbps wifi when the uplink is 100mbps.