On that note, I have some really really weird and interesting (and possibly good) news.
I think I got it working at 10MB/s speeds, but I have no idea how. Also I need to do more testing to confirm that it works, maybe I just got lucky last night.
The following are more or less my steps exactly.
So like I said before, after installing FreeNAS and then Xpenology I wanted to DBAN my drives just to get a fresh start. I did the quick format (just zeroes out all the sectors), 1 pass. While that was happening I did a few things.
I wanted to also make sure my USBs were clean before doing a fresh reinstall of FreeNAS. Now some of my USBs had been formatted on Mac OS which leaves behind a EFI that simply formatting in Windows won't get rid of. So I went ahead and did a DISKPART, selected my disks, and did a CLEAN command on each of them. Then I reinstalled the FreeNAS installer and installed FreeNAS to a USB. Meanwhile, I had tried to install Windows 10 to a USB to boot from, I must have done something wrong as I couldn't get it to boot. So I went to my BIOS to see if maybe Fast Boot or some stupid crap was on.
THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART.
Once in my BIOS (remember I have the Asus Z87 motherboard) I noticed something I have never seen before. At the top, where it says AI Tweakier, Advanced, Boot, Tools, ETC... I saw 2 circles. One blue and one black. This was at the very very top right, they have never been there and a quick google search before going to bed and I could not find it. Once clicking that black circle, it brought me to a whole new BIOS page with a NIC (might have just been called network or something) settings. Besides showing info such as Intel NIC, it had two options. A Wake On Lan option that I left alone. And a second setting that I forgot the name, might have been network speed or something. It had 5 Options:
- Auto (What was selected)
- 10mb Half
- 10mb Full
- 100mb Half
- 100mb Full
For shits and giggles just to see what would happen I clicked 100mb Full. Saved BIOS settings and restarted. From there I booted into my normal Windows environment, connect to the WebGUI for FreeNAS and did the basic set up (the initial Wizard, made a pool, a share for Windows, and a new user). I connected Windows by mapping the NAS as a Network Drive (what I normally do). I then began my normal tests. Moving the 1GB movie file back and forth. It worked fine, so I tried moving 10 X 1GB files back and forth at the same time, still fine (thought it did start off strong at 100MB/s for about 1/3 the transfer and then dip down to around 20MB/s for the rest). Now normally It would have crashed by now. So I went and did the Blackmagic Speed test for 15 minutes, no issues were it would normally crash after about 2-5. I couldn't believe it, so I did the final test which was make a Adobe Premiere project, and have it play back the clip. The clip in question btw is a 1GB 4K Res RAW Sony FS7 clip. It played back with 0 issues.
I have no idea what I did to "fix it" (again, maybe I got lucky last night, need to do more tests and for all I know it might crash the second I try again later today) but it seems to work. So to try to figure out what it was I did in the BIOS, I booted back to my BIOS, and as mysteriously as that second page appeared, it was gone. I could not get to the network settings anymore. I really want to try to figure out how to get there so I can set it back to "Auto" and see if that was causing the crash. But I have 0 clue how to get there.