PlowHouse
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- Dec 10, 2012
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I'm running into a performance issue with my newly created FreeNAS 8.3 system. I have 10 - 750 GB SATA hard drives @7200 RPM and 4GB RAM in this one system. I used ZFS as my file system and created a Raidz2. So I have 7 active drives with 2 parity drives leaving my 10th drive marked as a spare. When I copy files from a Windows machine to my configured NAS I am only getting speeds of 2.5MB - 5MB/s. I have prefetching disabled and I have tried to set the ARC as best as I could compared to other systems that people have related to mine but it seems that I'm stuck at those terrible speeds.
The hardware I'm using is about 5 years old, standard motherboard with an Intel Processor that is 64bit. So it's not the greatest of systems but in my opinion the hardware should be able to at least produce writing at 30MB/s. Maybe ZFS was the wrong choice for this kind of setup but I'd like to hear back from some people first before I blow away the raid and try again with some different settings such as using UFS instead.
Any ideas to increase this performance would be greatly appreciated.
The hardware I'm using is about 5 years old, standard motherboard with an Intel Processor that is 64bit. So it's not the greatest of systems but in my opinion the hardware should be able to at least produce writing at 30MB/s. Maybe ZFS was the wrong choice for this kind of setup but I'd like to hear back from some people first before I blow away the raid and try again with some different settings such as using UFS instead.
Any ideas to increase this performance would be greatly appreciated.