December 17, 201510 yr Hi there! Sorry if this isnt in the right spot, But I believe this is the best place to put this topic. I was reffered here from linus over at linustechtips and had a few questions before I make the jump. I have a very annoying NAS situation right now and Would like to solve it once and for all.. I have a synology 412+ which is slow as anything.. holds two 4tb wd reds A FreeNAS server which has two 4tb reds a buffalo elcheapo nas which was given to me that has two 1tb mystery drives. Anyway I'm trying to make my once good backup system work again. I've been having a heck of a time with freenas as now it randomly decides to shut down the CIFS processes, and After resetting/turning them back on.. My network share doesnt appear anymore. When it does it transfers for two seconds then crashes. among other things ( fun right?) So just out of curiosity is Unraid easier then Freenas? I've gotten used to freenas and really dont want to have to spend months searching forums again to figure out what some of the stuff does . So how steep is the learning curve? Also any suggestions on which machines to keep/ get rid of? what is the best thing to do? thanks! Freenas server has Mobo: Supermicro X10SLA-F LGA 1150 intel ATX proccessor: Intel Xeon E3 1276v3 3.6GHz 16 gigs of ecc ddr3 1600
December 17, 201510 yr Personally I'd download the Trial on a USB and boot off of it and check out the interface. When your ready drop in a disc or 3 and play with it. Keep in mind it will want to preclear and format your drives to linux so use something your not afraid of loosing data off of. If you like it then really go for it.
December 17, 201510 yr Yes there is. http://lime-technology.com/download/ The wiki is very detailed and should/would answer a lot of questions too, but feel free to always ask in the forum as well.
December 17, 201510 yr Author Ok thanks ill make sure to check that out! I do have a question though that I want to make sure to ask someone on here instead of just guessing/googling. Assuming I used somewhere between 1-4 WD reds what would likely transfer speeds be? Would Freenas ( ZFS) be the same or faster?
December 17, 201510 yr Ok thanks ill make sure to check that out! I do have a question though that I want to make sure to ask someone on here instead of just guessing/googling. Assuming I used somewhere between 1-4 WD reds what would likely transfer speeds be? Would Freenas ( ZFS) be the same or faster? Depends on if you are reading from the array (should have no bottleneck) or writing to the array (often a cache disk is used to minimize the human impact of this minor slow down.)
December 17, 201510 yr Author I mean mostly reading. Obviously writing is important to but for me not as much. What speeds should I expect to see? My only scare is that my synology server I had previously got about 10mbps read and write. Which for me is not acceptable. my FreeNAS server can get around 60. Should I expect the same from this?
December 17, 201510 yr I mean mostly reading. Obviously writing is important to but for me not as much. What speeds should I expect to see? My only scare is that my synology server I had previously got about 10mbps read and write. Which for me is not acceptable. my FreeNAS server can get around 60. Should I expect the same from this? The short answer is, it depends on your hardware choices... If you have a gigabit adapter, and gigabit switches / router, and are using gigabit speed capable cables you can in theory (with modern hardware) max out your gigabit connection. I get around 110-120 MB a second. I have a cache disk so I get that writing too... but based on what I've seen without a cache disk you should expect around 60 MB a second writing to the array... (again depends on hardware and bottlenecks.) I'm not an expert on FreeNAS by any means but I would imagine it has more overhead since it uses traditional raid.
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