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Just corrected my smb-fruit.conf above. I'd commented out "fruit:resource = file" whist messing around and wondered today why I was seeing apple doubles in the shares

Tried another fresh install of Sonoma, no change. I've gone back to Ventura 13.6.2 and all is well again. Broke my own rule on that one by updating to Sonoma before at least XX.3 !!

Thanks for posting this. Some time ago whilst on Ventura I spent time messing around with fruits config in /boot/config/smb-fruit.conf I'm mostly transferring or streaming large video files between unraid smb on a HP proliant and macbook pro over wifi. Also store my jpeg and RAW image files on the unraid for viewing/processing on the macbook I peaked file transfer performance for both folders containing multiple image files and large video files. With the below config in smb-fruit.conf. No nsmb.conf on the mac and nothing in /boof/config/smb-extra.conf. vfs objects = catia fruit streams_xattr fruit:resource = file fruit:metadata = stream fruit:encoding = native fruit:posix_rename = yes readdir_attr:aapl_rsize = no readdir_attr:aapl_finder_info = no readdir_attr:aapl_max_access = no fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes Large files will maintain 95MB/s up or down over ax 80MHz wifi when my local wifi neighbourhood is quiet and will maintain 102MB/s on LAN. Just below the max read/write capability of my unraid machine. Good compatibility with no random file permission/ access errors. No apple doubles. Fast response when opening folders with multiple files. All was well right up to macos 13.6.2. Fresh install of Sonoma 14.1.1 over the weekend and now I have an issue with jpeg files opened on the macbook with Preview from the smb share. Randomly some of them will corrupted. Open with a 3rd party image viewer and they're fine. Copy locally and they open fine with Preview. I see the issue has been raised by multiple people with apple support so it seems to be a bug with either Preview or their current implementation of smb. I've tried the various fix suggestions, adding various parameters to nsmb.conf, smb-fruit.conf and smb-extra.conf along with including ChannelD's recommendations. Nothing has worked. Also transfer speeds where down to around 70MB/s over LAN with ChannelD's config. Anyone had any success resolving this issue. I don't much fancy rolling back to Ventura but not sure I can live with this ..

I think I've sorted this.. I'd not added my WHS smb shares as a "remote smb". I'd simply added the WHS smb in Krusader using "New net connection" Having added the remote smb using "Add Remote SMB/NFS Share" and mounting it, I'm seeing 100MB/s + transfer speeds. Thanks to all for your support and apologies for my noobishnes :)

Disabling flow control made no noticeable difference. Disabling offload actually slowed the transfer down slightly, repeated several times but averaged aprox 36MB/s. Thanks D

Thanks Benson, I'll keep messing around with it. I still haven't swapped out any of the cables and I can try a different switch but I've not had any other issues so may be clutch at straws .. Hi testdasi - I'd say flatline at around 38MB/s occasionally climbing to around 40MB/s or dropping to 36MB/s. I wouldn;t say they are fluctuating just slowly drifting around 38MB/s..

Incidentally I can copy from a USB3 flash drive mounted on the UNraid machine to the array at around 180MB/s, currently filling the faster seagate drive. So I assume the slow transfer speed I'm seeing from the WHS smb must in some way be a network issue... Reading from the array to another machine on the same switch is maxing out 1Gb. But writing from either my WHS smb or an smb I have on an OS X server tops out at aprox 40MB/s..

Hi Benson and thanks for your reply. Yes all these devices are on the same subnet and in the case of the WHS and UNRaid server both are on the same switch. A traceroute from either machine to the other is a single hop. Cheers D

Hi all I've recently installed a trial of unraid 6.7.0, now updated to 6.7.1 to my HP Microserver Gen8. Currently I only have two drives in the array, a 4TB WB Red and a 2TB Seagate Barracuda, no parity drive and no cache drive. The plan is to migrate from WHS 2011 running on my HP N36L to unraid on the Gen8. Once migrated I'll add a second 4TB WD Red to be set as a parity disk, 1 more 2TB Barracudas and a 250GB SSD as a cache disk. I've avidly followed Spaceinvader one's excellent guides, preclearing my HDDs, built the array, created shares and am currently at the stage of moving media from my WHS machine to the unraid machine using Krusader. Considering I have no parity disk, whist moving my movies collection (mostly 10 to 70GB mkv files) I'm seeing transfer speeds top out at around 40MB/s. I've benchmarked the drives using the DiskSpeed docker, the WD tops out at around 140MB/s dropping off to 65MB/s at 4000GB, and the Seagate around 170MB/s trailing off to 70MB/s. I've tested my network speeds using a speedtest docker with reverse proxy on a client connected to the same switch as the unraid machine. I'm easily topping out my 1Gb connection. To a different client again on the same switch, I can copy from the SMB share on my WHS to an SSD topping out 1Gb and to an HDD at around 80 to 90 MB/s. The FCP plugin shows no issues and I've checked write caching is enabled on both drives in the array. I've also tried setting reconstruct write and this made no difference, which I assume it shouldn't since I currently have no parity drive... All array disks are SATA .. Am I being unrealistic to expect a write speed higher than 40MB/s? Or any other suggestions/ tips would be very much appreciated. Many thanks D