FreeNAS flow horrible!

[Akhyo]

Hello all, I'm curious and I like to test all lots of things in IT, so I try to make a NAS with FreeNAS.

I use the Recycling materials:

1 HDD Seagate 80Gb system
2 Hard Drives Samsung 1TB / 32M Cache / Sata 3GBS
1 Motherboard Acer MG43M
1 Pentium (R) Dual-Core CPU E5700 @ 3.00GHz
2 Gb of RAM

I already try in virtual machines before doing on the physical, while walking near a little as I wanted with a good transfer rate for my taste (50-60 MB / s) so I decide to do it on physical and run just to get a small NAS at home.

After doing some config (mirror volume, email, IP fixed ...) I try to copy a file of 3GB with the CIFS share and ... 4MB / s! I asser novice with FreeNAS then I do not understand why I too while its virtual turned well ... maybe the CPU? The ram? The motherboard ?

If you could help me be her top, I put a few screens of FreeNAS to snack or her you serve you never know.

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[jgreco]

That system is never going to work well for FreeNAS. You need a minimum of 8GB of RAM, plus you should have an ECC-capable CPU, motherboard, and memory. Please see the minimum hardware requirements for FreeNAS, or take a second look at the "8GB of memory" message you clicked on by when downloading the system. There's a reason we say this.

 

[Akhyo]

You think if i add RAM, i can have more flow ?

 

[Akhyo]

Proc, motherboard was ok ?

 

[jgreco]

Proc, motherboard was ok ?

No.

 

[Akhyo]

Ah ok :/ Maybe Nas4Free for start ?

 

[jgreco]

No, NAS4Free requires at least 4GB for ZFS. FreeNAS requires a little more because it is oriented towards much larger systems.

 

[Akhyo]

Ah okay, so with this configuration i cant have little NAS ? :/

 

[jgreco]

Ah okay, so with this configuration i cant have little NAS ? :/

Yes, of course you can, but it isn't suitable for ZFS, which expects and thrives on gobs of memory. There are plenty of non-ZFS NAS alternatives, including just setting up FreeBSD by itself and installing Samba (for CIFS) or configuring NFS (for NFS). I routinely make FreeBSD based NAS systems in virtual environments on 128MB or 256MB of RAM and they work swimmingly well for what they are. The thing is that you won't have the advantages of ZFS, but then again, you won't have the heavyweight footprint of ZFS.

 

[Akhyo]

With your solution I can have mirrored disks ? that's my main goal

 

[jgreco]

Yes, you can definitely mirror disks. I am actually *dis*assembling some mirrored disk systems as we speak migrating them to a cloud environment. People have been doing this for many years, first with ccd and then with gmirror.

The following link looks generally correct but is only provided for your convenience, I do not endorse it as I only glanced through it:

https://www.ateamsystems.com/tech-blog/installing-freebsd-9-gmirror-gpt-partitions-raid-1/

 

[Akhyo]

Thanks, im going to follow the tuto, after i can add CIFS sharing direct in FreeBSB ?

 

[jgreco]

Thanks, im going to follow the tuto, after i can add CIFS sharing direct in FreeBSB ?

Yes, the protocol is implemented by Samba, just as it is on FreeNAS.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-samba.html

 

[Akhyo]

Thanks for information ! :)

 

[Bidule0hm]

This thread was already posted in the french section (here) and already answered with the hardware recommendations thread.

 

[jgreco]

This thread was already posted in the french section (here) and already answered with the hardware recommendations thread.

Well then spank me with a high voltage wet ethernet cable.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Well then spank me with a high voltage wet ethernet cable.