Hey all,

 

New Unraid user here, bought the lifetime license last week after getting basic setup done with my trial and loving it.

 

Specs:

Ryzen 9 3950x 16c/32t

Asus Crosshair VI Hero motherboard

64gb ECC DDR4 @3200mhz

4x 8tb HGST Enterprise SATA drives as storage array (3+1 parity)

2x 400GB SAS3 2.5" SSD's in mirrored cache pool.

1x Kingston 1tb nvme as additional non critical apps drive.

LSI SAS3 adapter in IT mode runs all but the nvme obviously.

Nvidia GTX 1650 for minor transcoding (still cant get gpu pass thru working to plex, --runtime=nvidia wont work for me for some reason)

 

Ok so, I have the server set up in my entertainment center using Gig ethernet to a small switch, the switch is connected to my mesh router system (Netgear Nighthawk Wifi6).  All is well, my unraid dashboard shows the ethernet is connected at Gig speed full duplex.

 

Im trying to copy plex media off of a seagate external USB3 drive thats hooked up to my current workstation thats been serving up plex for my home.  I have one of my mesh satellites on my desk, and I run ether net to it from my workstation.  Ive also tried just letting the system use wireless (I get 1.2 gbps link speed), and when trying to copy my files across my wireless network im getting approximately 10-12 MB/sec transfer speed.  Is this normal for unraid?  Is this because its also writing to parity at the same time?  It seems extremely slow for a wifi connection at 1.2 gbps.  Getting same throughput when using ethernet on my workstation connected straight to the mesh satellite.

 

Other apps ive installed:

Nextcloud (basic setup, no connectivity yet outside of my LAN)

MariaDB (for nextcloud)

Binhex-Plexpass (mostly set up, just trying to copy over media)

Binhex-urbackup (working as intended, no backups running atm)

Grocy

Overseerr (not set up yet)

Radarr (not set up yet)

Sonarr (not set up yet)

 

plugins:

Appdata backup

CA cleanup appdata

Tailscale

Community Applications (duh)

Dynamix File Manager

GPU Statistics

Nvidia Driver

 

 

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Update:

 

I may have figured out my problem.

 

I just went into my Mesh router (Netgear MR60) to check some settings.  It looks as though my WAN port to cable modem is at 1000Mbps, but LAN1 (only other ethernet port) which is going to my switch that Unraid server is plugged into is only operating at 100mbps, so that correlates perfectly to the file transfer speeds im seeing.  I must have a bad ethernet cable.  So that means that even though Unraid is connected at 1000Mbps to my switch, the switch is only getting 100Mbps back to the router.  Sound like im cooking with bacon grease now?

 

Unfortunately Im away from the house for a few days and have been remoting in to check on this stuff, so I cant even change the cable out, booo.