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Dear Community,
As a hobbyist film composer, I use a number of sampling libraries that consist of a large number of small, individual sample files. I've now decided to build a new NAS using FreeNAS and store all the sample content on it. My setup is as follows:
The transfer speeds (measured with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test) are nice, about 500MB/s write and around 430MB/s read (why is read slower than write? Because of my raid level?). So the 10GBE seems to work nicely.
When I try to load my sample libraries though, it takes 5-10x as long as when I load them from a local SSD drive. I have already tried different compression levels on the dataset (lx4 and off), without any noticeable difference in speed. I think the problem is that the sample libraries usually consist of many small files (1-20MB).
Is there a way to tweak the transfer speed? Otherwise my whole undertaking would practically be in vain and a lot of money wasted.
Write speed and storage size is not an issue for me, I just like to optimize it for read.
Thanks for any help!
Cheers,
Remo
As a hobbyist film composer, I use a number of sampling libraries that consist of a large number of small, individual sample files. I've now decided to build a new NAS using FreeNAS and store all the sample content on it. My setup is as follows:
- Gigabyte GA-X68XP-UD3
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700K CPU @ 3.50GHz
- 32GB RAM
- Intel X550-T2 Dual-Port 10gbit NIC
- 3 SSDs (different sizes) in a Raid 0 configuration (striped?)
- 1Gbit Connection to Switch
- 10Gbit direct connection to my workstation (ASUS XG-C100C 10GBit, macOS High Sierra)
The transfer speeds (measured with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test) are nice, about 500MB/s write and around 430MB/s read (why is read slower than write? Because of my raid level?). So the 10GBE seems to work nicely.
When I try to load my sample libraries though, it takes 5-10x as long as when I load them from a local SSD drive. I have already tried different compression levels on the dataset (lx4 and off), without any noticeable difference in speed. I think the problem is that the sample libraries usually consist of many small files (1-20MB).
Is there a way to tweak the transfer speed? Otherwise my whole undertaking would practically be in vain and a lot of money wasted.
Write speed and storage size is not an issue for me, I just like to optimize it for read.
Thanks for any help!
Cheers,
Remo
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