Hi Guys
Complete newbie here, never touched linux or any kind of operating system other than windows so please go easy on me!
I have just bought an HP n40l and installed freeNAS 8.02 on it.. very pleasantly surprised how easy it was to get running. A good start...
I currently have only 1 disk (the 250gb provided) but have increased the ram to 8gb, no bios hack yet but its coming. I have 5 x 2tb disks on their way but for now have just been testing with the one disk
I had read that there were issues with the onboard NIC and while testing copying several ISO files or about 4gig a piece i noticed the transfer pause for several seconds then continue. It starts off at approx 100MB/s (according to windows 7) but pauses several times along the way. Just the broadcom issue i thought (as i have no such issues between windows machines)
so like a good newbie i went and bought an Intel CT 1/2 height card. Installed that and deleted the integrated NIC from freeNAS.
Tested again ... and same issue... almost same profile.. long pauses, then continues..
So what i'm asking is what can cause this? is it just the single drive? do i need to 'tune' zfs for the 8gb ram i have? do i need to disable the integrated NIC in the bios?
If you have got any suggestions i would greatly appreciate them, and the detail of how to do them also (and make them permanent). I have puTTY installed so can hook in via ssh (do i sound like i know what i am talking about?!)
Thanks
Steve
Complete newbie here, never touched linux or any kind of operating system other than windows so please go easy on me!
I have just bought an HP n40l and installed freeNAS 8.02 on it.. very pleasantly surprised how easy it was to get running. A good start...
I currently have only 1 disk (the 250gb provided) but have increased the ram to 8gb, no bios hack yet but its coming. I have 5 x 2tb disks on their way but for now have just been testing with the one disk
I had read that there were issues with the onboard NIC and while testing copying several ISO files or about 4gig a piece i noticed the transfer pause for several seconds then continue. It starts off at approx 100MB/s (according to windows 7) but pauses several times along the way. Just the broadcom issue i thought (as i have no such issues between windows machines)
so like a good newbie i went and bought an Intel CT 1/2 height card. Installed that and deleted the integrated NIC from freeNAS.
Tested again ... and same issue... almost same profile.. long pauses, then continues..
So what i'm asking is what can cause this? is it just the single drive? do i need to 'tune' zfs for the 8gb ram i have? do i need to disable the integrated NIC in the bios?
If you have got any suggestions i would greatly appreciate them, and the detail of how to do them also (and make them permanent). I have puTTY installed so can hook in via ssh (do i sound like i know what i am talking about?!)
Thanks
Steve