brashquido
Dabbler
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- Jun 30, 2014
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Hi All,
Have a low end server I am just wanting to use as a temporary dumping ground for non essential media files. I'm really not expecting much performance wise and am not fussed if a disk fails and I lose all the data. Only real requirements are to maximize storage capacity while using as little power as possible.
My system is consists of an Intel Atom D2700 with 4GB of RAM (that is the maximum for the system). I am using a combination of the 2 x onboard ICH7 SATA II connectors as well as a Silicon Image Sil3114 based 4 port PCI controller for the 6 x 1.5TB Western Digital green drives I have.
I installed the 64-bit version of FreeNAS onto a USB stick and created my ZFS in a stripe configuration with dedup and compression disabled. I setup CIFS and FTP and started dumping data onto it. I'm getting 55~60MB/s write speeds for both CIFS and FTP which is perfectly fine with me. When it comes to read speed it appears to be topping out at around 15MB/s for both CIFS and FTP. This seems a bit low to me (especially for a stripe) as I know I can get up around 80~85MB/s on these drives individually .
I've not tried UFS yet, but is there anything I can try with ZFS tuning to boost read speed without adding extra hardware?
Have a low end server I am just wanting to use as a temporary dumping ground for non essential media files. I'm really not expecting much performance wise and am not fussed if a disk fails and I lose all the data. Only real requirements are to maximize storage capacity while using as little power as possible.
My system is consists of an Intel Atom D2700 with 4GB of RAM (that is the maximum for the system). I am using a combination of the 2 x onboard ICH7 SATA II connectors as well as a Silicon Image Sil3114 based 4 port PCI controller for the 6 x 1.5TB Western Digital green drives I have.
I installed the 64-bit version of FreeNAS onto a USB stick and created my ZFS in a stripe configuration with dedup and compression disabled. I setup CIFS and FTP and started dumping data onto it. I'm getting 55~60MB/s write speeds for both CIFS and FTP which is perfectly fine with me. When it comes to read speed it appears to be topping out at around 15MB/s for both CIFS and FTP. This seems a bit low to me (especially for a stripe) as I know I can get up around 80~85MB/s on these drives individually .
I've not tried UFS yet, but is there anything I can try with ZFS tuning to boost read speed without adding extra hardware?