Hello,

 

I've setup an unRaid server. Its basically 3x500gb WD AAKS drives, onbord Gig Nic.

 

Network access is reallly very slow. In vista its reporting that its transfering at around 5mb/s, and it never goes any higher.

 

Same on XP as well based on the time its taking to transfer a 350mb file. Both the server and the other machines accessing it are on gigbit network, with a gigbit switch.

 

im 100% sure this is not an issue with the other machines, and is the unraid server.

 

Any ideas anyone?

 

Cheers,

Jon

Time for a syslog, see my signature.

Just checked...

Vista to Vista transfer rates are going between 40 and 50MB/s. so im going to hazard a guess that a parity drive isnt going to cause a difference of over 35MB/s

 

EDIT: And just for the record. This is both Read and Write that is transfering at 5MB/s

Overall, you appear to have a good setup.  You did have one glitch at 'Mar 19 16:05:47', a series of 'page allocation failure's.  They appear to be related to the onboard networking, possibly a problem in the e1000 driver or an issue with the networking chipset.  However there is no special recovery or loss of function, so it does not appear to be considered a serious problem.  There are no apparent issues with the rest of the hardware.

 

You might try a different network driver, by using a different version of unRAID.  You might try a different NIC, by adding a compatible network card to the machine.  You might also swap the network cable to the unRAID machine, make sure it is at least Cat5e.

 

Another diagnostic tool, try typing ifconfig eth0 at the machine or telnet console, and post the results here.  We can look for excessive collisions or something else.

 

Just to be complete, also type at the machine or telnet console hdparm -I  /dev/sda, hdparm -I  /dev/sdb, and hdparm -I  /dev/sdc, and post the results here.  We can verify they are working correctly, and at full speed.  I don't anticipate seeing anything wrong though, as problems with the drives should have shown up in the syslog.

 

All looks okay to me, from what i can tell?

 

How easy is an upgrade to the latest version? Dont want to be losing a TB of stuff

Looks fine to me too.

 

Upgrades are easy, just a matter of replacing bzroot and bzimage on the flash, and you can safely go backward and forward.  But see one of Joe's recent posts for a better method, search JoeL bzroot, a post within the recent months.

 

One other possibility, but only related to Vista, have you upgraded your Vista to SP1?  Vista Service Pack 1 fixes a major loss of network speed, between Vista and non-Vista machines.

 

I've had SP1 on a flash drive for some time now, been putting it off until i got a day, just incase it all goes pete tong!

 

Ill give it a try tonight and let you know.

 

Just another thing. is the cache drive ive heard mentioned something available on the Basic version, or does this take up one of the 3 Disk slots?

 

Will this even increase performance for me?

 

Cheers,

 

Jon

From what I've read, the "cache" drive is available only on the paid versions.  On them it does not take away an existing slot on the array but adds an additional slot.

 

Joe L.

i have a vista box with SP1 and was having the same 5-7 MB/s transfer rates.  I did the mod Joe made in the user customization forum and now get 30-35 MB/s transferring from the unraid.  That is important to me since i like to be able to grab movies off it fast to take with me.  Writing to the server isn't as important as i do batch transfers over night.  My server is using all brand new SATA drives and hardware and i have Gig-E as well.   I can transfer an 8gb file in about 5 or 6 minutes.

 

This is the mod im talking about.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=965.0

 

 

xman

I've installed SP1, and also made the tweak mentioned. So not sure what it was that helped. The speed has increased. Not massivly, but i can get about 20MB/s out and about 10MB/s in. that'll do me though. I can now stream and copy at the same time, which is all i wanted from it!

 

Cheers people and sorry for the late reply!

 

Jon