I put together a FreeNAS 8.2 box to use as a back up for my Windows machines, an SSH server and a storage device for my movies, photos and music. I've been messing with it for a few weeks now trying to get the transfer speeds up from the Windows box to the NAS but I can't seem to make any headway. At first I was getting a burst of 30MB/s speeds followed by 5MB/s, which seems to be a common thing from my Google searches. I found a few post and tried a few things and they only made things worse. Now I get 94MB/s burst initially and then it dies and won't complete the transfer. So I'm reverting back to the pre-tweaked settings in hopes that you can help me solve this.
Here's my setup:
FreeNAS box
Gigabyte 870A-USB3 motherboard
Dell PERC 6/3 RAID controller with 512mb cache, BBU, latest Dell Firmware installed, 20cfm fan mounted to heatsink to cool it, installed in a PCI 16x slot
16gigs of dual channel DDR3 memory
Intel PRO/1000 GT NIC in PCI slot
6 WD Red 1TB NAS drives
The drives are set up in RAID 6 on the PERC card and then I created a ZFS volume on that.
The Windows box
Dell XPS 420
8gigs of RAM
750GB drive
500GB drive
1.5TB drive
Built-in Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit NIC
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit
Network between the two machines consist of Cat5e patch cables going into a Cisco SG100-08 switch. Eventually everything will be going through my home lab with consist of managed switches, routers and a Poweredge server. But I wanted to get this thing working right before I put it in the network.
Here's my setup:
FreeNAS box
Gigabyte 870A-USB3 motherboard
Dell PERC 6/3 RAID controller with 512mb cache, BBU, latest Dell Firmware installed, 20cfm fan mounted to heatsink to cool it, installed in a PCI 16x slot
16gigs of dual channel DDR3 memory
Intel PRO/1000 GT NIC in PCI slot
6 WD Red 1TB NAS drives
The drives are set up in RAID 6 on the PERC card and then I created a ZFS volume on that.
The Windows box
Dell XPS 420
8gigs of RAM
750GB drive
500GB drive
1.5TB drive
Built-in Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit NIC
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit
Network between the two machines consist of Cat5e patch cables going into a Cisco SG100-08 switch. Eventually everything will be going through my home lab with consist of managed switches, routers and a Poweredge server. But I wanted to get this thing working right before I put it in the network.