My speeds are not what they should be

[Noodle42089]

I have the following specs:

2X 16 TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives for data and i am only getting like 100/150 Mb/s transfer speeds. Im connected via Ehternet to a 10 gbe switch and i have two intel 10gbe ethernet cards installed.

I saw online that it is possible to get near to 400/500 Mb/s which is quite faster than i currently endure.

Do you guys have any suggestions what i can change to get faster speeds?

Im quite new to 10 gigs but i assume this can get faster.

Thanks in advance

 

[danb35]

i am only getting like 100/150 Mb/s transfer speeds

What's on the other end, and how is it connected to the network?

I saw online that it is possible to get near to 400/500 Mb/s

That sounds very optimistic for a single mirrored pair of disks.

 

[jgreco]

100/150 Mb/s transfer speeds.

Let's clarify this a bit here. You've SAID that you get 100/150 megabit per second transfer speeds. You used a capital M and lowercase b (bits). But then you go on to say "10gbe" in all lowercase. This implies your lowercase b is understood to be "bits" even if you didn't capitalize the G. Or the E.

None of this makes much sense, and I think it may be because you're miscommunicating units. On 10 gigabit, even tepid old cruddy cards can typically hit at least 3Gbit/sec. Can you please identify the units you are using? Because if you are getting 100/150Mbit/s, that's a very different problem than if you're getting 100/150MByte/s (which might be completely reasonable).

 

[Etorix]

2X 16 TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives for data and i am only getting like 100/150 Mb/s transfer speeds.

Your screenshot shows 148 MBytes/s incoming, which is likely all that an IronWolf spinner can ingest.
For reads (outgoing), you may hope for twice that rate, i.e. about 300 MB/s or 2.4 Gbits/s. Saturating 10 GbE is only going to happen if the NAS can serve the whole request from RAM.
For more throughput, you'll simply need more vdevs.

 

[jgreco]

Your screenshot shows 148 MBytes/s incoming, which is likely all that an IronWolf spinner can ingest.

That's a bit underwhelming; I suggest applying 10G tuning tweaks as outlined in the 10G tuning resource.

For reads (outgoing), you may hope for twice that rate, i.e. about 300 MB/s or 2.4 Gbits/s.

That's overly optimistic in my experience. Mirrors do not reliably service from both sides of the mirror, unless there are multiple consumer/multiple requests.