Hi All,
I finished my first FreeNAS build a few hours ago, and everything is looking good so far, just copying all my data over from my old computer for backup.
2 questions I have though:
1. Transfer speed. I am using CIFS to transfer data between my machines and the FreeNAS server (all Windows based), I have a Billion 7800n modem/router with gigabit ethernet, a gigabit ethernet card in the FreeNAS server (a HP Proliant Microserver) and a gigabit ethernet card in the other 2 machines I am transferring data from. I set the server up in a ZFS raidz1 setup. I am averaging about 30MB/s according to Windows, but it varies between about 5MB/s slowest to 85MB/s fastest. Are these speeds reasonable for my hardware? I thought they might be a bit quicker? I found a couple of guides with speed tweaks but they were all for version 7 of FreeNAS and the options are no longer in the web config as far as I could see. Can anyone recommend a way I can maximise my speed?
2. I wanted to know if there was a way to 'sync' certain data between my desktop and the FreeNAS server. For example, set it up so that I am 'syncing' my documents folder, so that any time I change a file or add a file to Documents on my desktop, the change would also be made to the FreeNAS server? I saw rsync in the options and wondered if it may be able to do the job?
Other than that everything is going well! Thanks in advance for any help you experts may be able to offer
I finished my first FreeNAS build a few hours ago, and everything is looking good so far, just copying all my data over from my old computer for backup.
2 questions I have though:
1. Transfer speed. I am using CIFS to transfer data between my machines and the FreeNAS server (all Windows based), I have a Billion 7800n modem/router with gigabit ethernet, a gigabit ethernet card in the FreeNAS server (a HP Proliant Microserver) and a gigabit ethernet card in the other 2 machines I am transferring data from. I set the server up in a ZFS raidz1 setup. I am averaging about 30MB/s according to Windows, but it varies between about 5MB/s slowest to 85MB/s fastest. Are these speeds reasonable for my hardware? I thought they might be a bit quicker? I found a couple of guides with speed tweaks but they were all for version 7 of FreeNAS and the options are no longer in the web config as far as I could see. Can anyone recommend a way I can maximise my speed?
2. I wanted to know if there was a way to 'sync' certain data between my desktop and the FreeNAS server. For example, set it up so that I am 'syncing' my documents folder, so that any time I change a file or add a file to Documents on my desktop, the change would also be made to the FreeNAS server? I saw rsync in the options and wondered if it may be able to do the job?
Other than that everything is going well! Thanks in advance for any help you experts may be able to offer