Maybe to be even more inclusive: SOAF - Significant Other Approval Factor
The SOAF/WAF is high!
I had all the bits arrive yesterday - crazy fast shipping from US Newegg for the mobo!
It's all installed - that IPMI and iKVM is amazing! Seriously cool stuff!
I kinda just clicked buttons and stuck with defaults (incl encryption) to make a pool out of my (in the end only 3) 3tb drives. RAIDZ1. Set up a dataset and made a SMB share.
If I transfer my test ~20gb RAR to it it saturates the connection. Pegged on 113MB/s in Windows file transfer. However if I use an app I bought called
LAN Speed Test set to packet sizes of 1MB - 30MB (to simulate writing/updating RAW files for photo stuff) I get a write speed of 169mbps max vs my old synology with the SMR reds in it getting 493mbps same test.
I definitely don't know enough yet to work out what's causing this. I've not run iperf3 but given then 20gb file saturates my 1gig link I'd say it's not a connectivity issue.
It's quite late now so I'll probably stop fiddling for now - any suggestions as to what areas to look for as a cause?
Big Edit: In case that app is rubbish I grabbed my Mass Effect 3 game install folder and copied it to the FreeNas and the Synology and timed them. I figured a game install folder will have a large mix of file sizes and was ~10gb in total.
FreeNAS completed in 3min37s
Synology completed in 5min25s
So yeah... in non synthetic testing the FreeNAS is spanking the old Synology! Perhaps not an issue after all.