Why is it when I copy to my UnRAID I can copy at a good 20-30MB but when I copy from my server to lets say External USB3.0 it copies at 3-5mb max ?

 

 

It shouldn't, of course.

 

Check a couple of things:

 

(1)  Transfer some files from your PC directly to the USB v3 external drive, to confirm speeds that yields.  This will confirm the issue isn't your USB drive.

 

(2)  Replace the Ethernet cable between the server and the router, to confirm you don't have a failed pair in that cable -- one bad pair would still allow full speed in ONE direction; but would cause very slow transfers in the other direction (exactly what you're seeing here).

 

(3)  If #2 doesn't help, also replace the cable between your PC and the router, in case the issue is in that cable.

 

yah man , I think it is the drives to be honest, I will replace cables, but I don't think that is the case, worth a try. I can download faster then I can transfer off this thing lol

 

USB or anything local is fine speed wise (xfer from PC to USB 50mb/sec or so)

 

thanks for the input, but I think I am going to maybe buy new drives for this thing, or scrap UnRAID, maybe a new mobo or NIC is what I need. What is a good recommended mobo to use with AMD chip ? I am willing to buy one. This biostar board isn't cutting it

 

Thanks

It's NOT the drives on your UnRAID server => if it was the drives you wouldn't get the write speeds you're seeing.  The reasonable write speeds also confirm that your NICs are working at reasonable speeds.

 

It does take a bit of patience to isolate issues like this.  So far you've confirmed that the PC -> USB speed isn't an issue;  and that the UnRAID system is working at reasonable write speeds (30MB is about what you should see for parity-protected writes).  So now try the cables -- either use a direct connection between the UnRAID server and your PC;  or replace both the cable from the server to your router; and your router to the PC [You can try one-at-a-time so you'll know which one it was if this resolves the issue].

 

Right on buddy, will do, I will test other pc's in the house too, just to see... sigh to troubleshooting :-p I appreciate the help man, awesome of you. Love the community here

It seems it was the on board network card. I put a gigabit PCI NIC card in the server and everything seems back to normal ... for now

Glad to hear all's well ... your outline of the problem definitely sounded like it was simply a slow NIC.

 

Was strange, I added the new NIC, booted my UnRaid, and 4 drives were not selected in the device list. So I selected the 4 back where they were suppose to be and it did a parity sync.

 

I clean powered down the server via GUI (web interface) and booted up. It wanted to do another parity sync, I let parity complete.

 

Clean powered down the server again, via GUI (web interface) and booted up. It then showed all my disks as BLUE, started the server and it is doing another parity check again.

 

I hope after this completes I can clean power down the server and it will finally boot up with no parity check and a clean config.

 

I was curious to why it was doing that ?

Something is definitely not right.    This could be a number of things .. but first, are you running "stock" UnRAID [i.e. no plugins]?

 

Attach a syslog.