First time post so please forgive me if I sound like a newb. I have had FreeNAS for about a year and have always had slow network speeds from it. This is usually not a problem but since I am upgrading my raidz (6X2TB to 6X4TB) I would like to figure out why I am having these issues.
I have been playing around with FreeNAS 8.3.1 and have installed it VIA Oracle VM Virtual Box. I was able to set up a 4TB*6 RaidZ1. I have full access via all the different shares available. The problem is that no matter which protocol I use (FTP,NFS, SMB) I always get 30MB/s for both read and write. I wanted to make sure that it wasn't limited to the raid, so I created a one disk share on FreeNAS. When I wrote to it through any of the three mentioned network protocols I still only got 30MB/s, however if I used windows to transfer to it I got 150MB/s. Next I thought it maybe a network bottle neck so I tried to write from a second computer (laptop connected directly to the router) and I got 130MB/s writing to that same drive via a windows 7 Samba share. Any ideas what could be slowing down my FreeNAS performance? Notes: I did check and the network adapter says it is full duplex 1000MB. This problem is not limited to regular hard disks but SSD harddisks as well.
Specs:
OS: Windows 7
VM: Oracle Virtual Box
Freenas: 8.3.1
HD: 6 x 4TB Sata 6.0 Green Drives
Processor: AMD FX8359 4.2Ghz
Ram: 32 Gigs
Network: Gigabit Network Card, Gigabit Router hooked with all CAT6A ethernet.
I have been playing around with FreeNAS 8.3.1 and have installed it VIA Oracle VM Virtual Box. I was able to set up a 4TB*6 RaidZ1. I have full access via all the different shares available. The problem is that no matter which protocol I use (FTP,NFS, SMB) I always get 30MB/s for both read and write. I wanted to make sure that it wasn't limited to the raid, so I created a one disk share on FreeNAS. When I wrote to it through any of the three mentioned network protocols I still only got 30MB/s, however if I used windows to transfer to it I got 150MB/s. Next I thought it maybe a network bottle neck so I tried to write from a second computer (laptop connected directly to the router) and I got 130MB/s writing to that same drive via a windows 7 Samba share. Any ideas what could be slowing down my FreeNAS performance? Notes: I did check and the network adapter says it is full duplex 1000MB. This problem is not limited to regular hard disks but SSD harddisks as well.
Specs:
OS: Windows 7
VM: Oracle Virtual Box
Freenas: 8.3.1
HD: 6 x 4TB Sata 6.0 Green Drives
Processor: AMD FX8359 4.2Ghz
Ram: 32 Gigs
Network: Gigabit Network Card, Gigabit Router hooked with all CAT6A ethernet.