Cap Cave Man
Cadet
- Joined
- Aug 19, 2014
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Hi All
I'm very now to the world of FreeNAS (well NAS in general infact), I've been looking a solution to my family media sharing requirements and FreeNAS seems to be the option form me.
I've converted an old PC:
425W power supply
i3 3220 cpu
H77n gigabyte MB
8 gig ram DDR3 1333
Currently 1 green 1.5 Tb disk
(I have 2 more 2TB green drives waiting for the final set up, but still in testing mode, after initial transfer and sorting files will be stable and there will not be much removal only reading)
So, I installed FreeNAs on USB, booted up, set the root password, set the admin email address (I think i got this bit wrong, may come back to it), enabled console logging, configured a ZFS storage (was allowed 1.3TB of disk space, No RAID, just a striped drive), Didn't create any users, set permission for any to do anything, Created a NFS share (have both MAC and Windows machines), Started Services, installed Plex plugin ans started it running. All is good up to here. (want to install firefly next but will do some searching on how to do then when questions below are answered)
I'm now trying to transfer files on to the NAS for later sorting and it's taking 1 hour to transfer a 2Gig movie from external drive attached to MAC and up to 20 mins to move a 500 meg file from one location to another on the NAS, when connecting to the server from my mac.
My questions are:
1 - is this normal?
2 - will I get better transfer rates when I have 2 drives on a RAID format?
3 - what setting can I change to speed things up
4 - would CIFS be better that NFS or is it just personal choice
5 - have I missed something very simple and will have a face palm moment when it's pointed out to me.
Let me know if you need any more information and that's for feed back/help/sarcastic comments
I'm very now to the world of FreeNAS (well NAS in general infact), I've been looking a solution to my family media sharing requirements and FreeNAS seems to be the option form me.
I've converted an old PC:
425W power supply
i3 3220 cpu
H77n gigabyte MB
8 gig ram DDR3 1333
Currently 1 green 1.5 Tb disk
(I have 2 more 2TB green drives waiting for the final set up, but still in testing mode, after initial transfer and sorting files will be stable and there will not be much removal only reading)
So, I installed FreeNAs on USB, booted up, set the root password, set the admin email address (I think i got this bit wrong, may come back to it), enabled console logging, configured a ZFS storage (was allowed 1.3TB of disk space, No RAID, just a striped drive), Didn't create any users, set permission for any to do anything, Created a NFS share (have both MAC and Windows machines), Started Services, installed Plex plugin ans started it running. All is good up to here. (want to install firefly next but will do some searching on how to do then when questions below are answered)
I'm now trying to transfer files on to the NAS for later sorting and it's taking 1 hour to transfer a 2Gig movie from external drive attached to MAC and up to 20 mins to move a 500 meg file from one location to another on the NAS, when connecting to the server from my mac.
My questions are:
1 - is this normal?
2 - will I get better transfer rates when I have 2 drives on a RAID format?
3 - what setting can I change to speed things up
4 - would CIFS be better that NFS or is it just personal choice
5 - have I missed something very simple and will have a face palm moment when it's pointed out to me.
Let me know if you need any more information and that's for feed back/help/sarcastic comments