Chris Gallardo
Cadet
- Joined
- Dec 5, 2014
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- 7
Hey Bros,
I recently built a my first freenas box to just use as a home file server.
I absolutely LOVE it, and for the most part it is running very well, but I am left with some questions as to whether I am maximizing what I could be getting.
I used a bunch of old parts I had laying around.
The setup is
x58 motherboard.
i7 920
12 Gigs of ram
8 drives 2tb's each. Not all drives match. 6 are WD greens, and the other 2 are a Toshiba and a Seagate.
I am connected using a single Gigabyte Ethernet connection.
All devices in my home are connected through an asus ac66u router.
Most of my settings are still at default from the initial installation.
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I created a single Raidz2 pool out of all 8 disks. In this pool I created folders and stored my data there. I created cifs shares to those folders.
I believe now that I made a mistake here and probably should have created a data set within this pool before transferring data and beginning to use it. How much of an issue will this be for me?
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My next issue seems very odd to me. When I copy data from any pc on my network to my FreeNAS box I get speeds of anywhere from 110MB/s to 130MB/s and I am very happy with this. But when I copy files from my FreeNAS box to any PC on my network I am only getting 60-70 MB/s which seems very slow.
I am copying only to fast SSD's on my computers. If I transfer from usb 3 drives to my machines I can get upwards of 90 - 100 MB/s.
So should I be getting faster speeds than this? If so, any insight into what I need to fix?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Let me know what other information could help you out.
I recently built a my first freenas box to just use as a home file server.
I absolutely LOVE it, and for the most part it is running very well, but I am left with some questions as to whether I am maximizing what I could be getting.
I used a bunch of old parts I had laying around.
The setup is
x58 motherboard.
i7 920
12 Gigs of ram
8 drives 2tb's each. Not all drives match. 6 are WD greens, and the other 2 are a Toshiba and a Seagate.
I am connected using a single Gigabyte Ethernet connection.
All devices in my home are connected through an asus ac66u router.
Most of my settings are still at default from the initial installation.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I created a single Raidz2 pool out of all 8 disks. In this pool I created folders and stored my data there. I created cifs shares to those folders.
I believe now that I made a mistake here and probably should have created a data set within this pool before transferring data and beginning to use it. How much of an issue will this be for me?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My next issue seems very odd to me. When I copy data from any pc on my network to my FreeNAS box I get speeds of anywhere from 110MB/s to 130MB/s and I am very happy with this. But when I copy files from my FreeNAS box to any PC on my network I am only getting 60-70 MB/s which seems very slow.
I am copying only to fast SSD's on my computers. If I transfer from usb 3 drives to my machines I can get upwards of 90 - 100 MB/s.
So should I be getting faster speeds than this? If so, any insight into what I need to fix?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Let me know what other information could help you out.
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