My Unraid system is very slow. I sometimes have transfer rates (via SMB) of a few MB/s when writing to the NAS, even though I use SSDs exclusively.
My system:
i7-10700k (underclocked)
64GB DDR4-3200
NVMe: 2x WD Blue SN570 1TB
SSDs: 2x WD Red 1TB, 1x WD Blue 1TB, 1x SanDisk Ultra 1TB
Unraid 6.12.2 stable
One of my NVMe SSDs is the parity drive, the others are for data.
Using FIO, I ran various benchmarks. The read speeds are at 250-550MB/s for the SATA SSDs and 3100+MB/s for the NVMe.
Running fio --rw=write --name=test --size=500M in the /mnt/disk directory of a SATA SSD the results are normal, with speeds of 250MB/s, the same for the NVMe with 2200MB/s.
But when I use the same command with --direct=1, which enables Direct I/O, I have write speeds of 2-10MB/s on the SATA SSD and 30-60MB/s on the NVMe SSD.
This sometimes results in very slow write speeds when copying data to my NAS via SMB.
This issue is not new to me, so unrelated to this Unraid Release.
The attached text file shows the benchmarks using FIO on my SATA and NVMe drives with Direct I/O enabled and disabled
unraid_ssd_perf.txt