Hans Baumeister
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- Feb 20, 2014
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I'm having some severe issues with transfers from an external harddrive on my Mac (connected by Firewire) via Gigabit LAN to my FreeNAS. The NAS HW should be quite performant: dual core 2.2 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 4x WD Red 3TB drives.
I've had transfers up to 50MB/s quite consistently. It seems, however, that the more I copy onto the NAS, the slower transfers get. I've got one transfer going that Pathfinder is currently clocking at 2.7MB/s (it started at 13!) and another transfer via ChronoSync which has only been able to transfer about 420MB in the last 4 hours. Unfortunately, ChronoSync doesn't show the average throughput, but when I tried to transfer these files (they are Aperture libraries) using Pathfinder, it gave me a throughput of around 130kB/s (yes, KILObytes!).
Unfortunately, I am unable to figure out if the slow speed is due to an issue on my Mac (though I haven't had any speed issues with this external drive before) or if it is something to do with the NAS. The NAS isn't showing much disk activity (it shouldn't, at this slow transfer speed!), system load avg. on the 15 min. scale is around 0.2.
Anyone have this issue before? I need to solve this, or I'll be transferring files for the next month!
Thank you!
I've had transfers up to 50MB/s quite consistently. It seems, however, that the more I copy onto the NAS, the slower transfers get. I've got one transfer going that Pathfinder is currently clocking at 2.7MB/s (it started at 13!) and another transfer via ChronoSync which has only been able to transfer about 420MB in the last 4 hours. Unfortunately, ChronoSync doesn't show the average throughput, but when I tried to transfer these files (they are Aperture libraries) using Pathfinder, it gave me a throughput of around 130kB/s (yes, KILObytes!).
Unfortunately, I am unable to figure out if the slow speed is due to an issue on my Mac (though I haven't had any speed issues with this external drive before) or if it is something to do with the NAS. The NAS isn't showing much disk activity (it shouldn't, at this slow transfer speed!), system load avg. on the 15 min. scale is around 0.2.
Anyone have this issue before? I need to solve this, or I'll be transferring files for the next month!
Thank you!