Makes no difference that you didn't pre-clear your drives.

 

Although that would have been a good test of the drives -- just in case this is an issue with one of your drives.    But a simple test of that is to just do a write to EACH of the drive shares ...

 

i.e. write to \\Tower\Disk1\Movies

 

AND  to \\Tower\Disk2\Movies

 

If one is appreciably faster than the other, then the issue is a bad drive.

 

I changed the speed setting of my NIC on my pc (where the files live), see pic below.  Transferred the folder "Troy" (20GB) to each disk and got around 40MB/s.  Transferred to share and got 75MB/s (strange).

 

Set NIC back to "auto negotiate" and transferred to share and got 10MB/s.  I really don't get it.

Seems you have some NICs in the topology that don't "talk" to each other well when negotiating speed ... likely a driver issue.

 

Which version of UnRAID are you running?

 

If v5 -- try v6

 

If v6 -- try v5

 

 

Thanks, GC.  I got fed up and just went with Windows8!  I wanted to try it out anyway.  Heard good things about Storage Spaces.

 

When I went to the NAS box and hooked up the monitor it showed that I had data errors.  Oh well.  Perhaps I will visit unRAID again sometime in the future.

Try shutting unRAID webGUI on your PC end.  There have been lots of reports  of the webGUI significantly slowly down parity checks and other highly disk intensive operations.

 

When you want to see how things are going, start the GUI running and have a look for a few seconds.  unRAID is perfectly happy running without having to service the GUI running on some other computer!