I have my new unRAID server up and going with 10 drives (9+Parity) connected to my Asus P5B-VM DO and SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 card (My HW Specs http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1429.0)

 

I started a copy from my 1 TB Maxtor Shared Storage Drive (1000Mbit)  to a User Share (via Windows Explorer since I'm linux-ly challenged)... Anyhow, I had about 750GB worth of Video that I started copying last night (about midnight)... It's still running and appears to have copied ~ 525GB based on my estimates of my Size/Free Space on the 3 drives that it's used so far (using "User Share" with High-Water Allocation) 

 

Does this sound about right as far as xfer speeds (writing to the Array I guess primarily), and is there an "easy way" to tell what my Read/Write performance is to and from the network?

 

To be fair the server was also creating the Parity until sometime mid morning so that probably slowed down

 

Thanks

SW2

You should expect 10MB/sec or better real-world performance when writing to Unraid using GigE if you have the parity drive on.  So, for 525GB's that translates to 15 hours.  Turning off parity may double performance, though writing to a user share dampens that performance boost a bit.  Running a parity in the background just makes it worse.

 

Thus you are probably about right.

 

Re: checking speed, you should have a network performance chart as either part of your windows task manager or perhaps as part of a tray item from your nic manufacturer.  It will be a bit spikey, but it should be estimatable.

 

 

Bill