Can anyone confirm if this sata add in card could be causing me transfer issues? only getting 25 MB/s all new quality cat6a cables installed:

 

[1b4b:9215] 05:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 9215 (rev 11) think i've read here somewhere that 9215 was on the $h1t list but can't find the thread

 

and if so any good option out there thats known to work?

Edited March 24, 20188 yr by mrbilky
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Though not a recommended controller it should perform much better that that, post your diagnostics and more details of your problem, how and when it happens.

I suppose it's not your switch, cause if it was a 100Mbit switch the you'll get transfer speeds of 12MB/sec

Thanks for the help guys, So the below screenshots were taken this morning from a cold start on my daily driver (AMD 1800x) I removed all but the server and my rig from the Gigabit switch so to remove any potential interference, the first attempt shows the issue the share I'm copying to is a cache only share (2 SSD's in raid 0)  (disregard the name I am not on my 10GBE network) I get 25MB/s then I tried same file to my nvme drive in unassigned devices and got 113 MB/s then went right back to the cache share and I got 113 MB/s then tried to copy another file and boom right back to 25MB/s strange thing is I'm getting laggy response from my mouse on occasions when the transfer is happening but not on every transfer I looked at resource monitor for anything glaring but nothing. I had a verizon tech a few months ago try and get me an open port on my router and he could not figure that out (that's a whole nother story) but now I'm wondering if he made any changes (he was remotely in my system) I have only made a few transfers to the NAS from that time and always on my wifi connected mac so can't determine when it started suffice to say I was getting above average transfers before this issue

homenas-diagnostics-20180324-0853.zip

That first 25MB/s transfer suggests a network issue to me, since if it was a pool/device problem the transfer should still start at 113MB/s and only slow down when the RAM cache is filled, I would try different switch/NIC/cables to try and rule things out.

Do you have another server? Connect it to the same connection your unRAID server was on. Now you can try to copy a file from your desktop to that server, and see if it is a network issue or a unraid issue. Like Johnnie said try to rule things out. 

Edited March 24, 20188 yr by MvL

3 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

That first 25MB/s transfer suggests a network issue to me, since if it was a pool/device problem the transfer should still start at 113MB/s and only slow down when the RAM cache is filled, I would try different switch/NIC/cables to try and rule things out.

 

2 hours ago, MvL said:

Do you have another server? Connect it to the same connection your unRAID server was on. Now you can try to copy a file from your desktop to that server, and see if it is a network issue or a unraid issue. Like Johnnie said try to rule things out. 

Been hacking away at it I moved the NAS directly to my isp provided extender which was going to my switch first and did the same with my daily driver, reset to default both the primary router and the extender no luck if I reinstall windows fresh I have backups of all my data this would reset every single system parameter and will not retain any bad settings correct? I have only 1 server so that's out but here's a new twist I copied the test file from my desktop to a share on the server and I got 25 MB/s but then I copied from share to share and wouldn't you know the damn thing works as it was built tried several different share to share configs and it works like a charm this must mean that some setting is off on my AMD rig in windows, no?

From share to share on the unRAID server? Then you copy the file locally so the file stays on the unRAID server and you do not copy over the network.

2 hours ago, MvL said:

From share to share on the unRAID server? Then you copy the file locally so the file stays on the unRAID server and you do not copy over the network.

File is from my main rig to the unRAID server and was slow (25 MB/s) then that file between shares within unRAID and it transfers at 800 to 900+ MB/s the connection between the server and my rig is directly connected to the isp extender so i'm thinking that some setting/settings are incorrect in windows config that is causing the issue? With it transferring ok between shares on the server I guess that eliminates the add-in SATA card as being the bottle neck as I original thought.

 

Update: after determining this was no longer an unRAID issue (i.e. add-in sata card) I completed a clean install of windows and now saturating the network in transfers thanks for the help guys learned the hard way to not let some ISP tech convince you he knows what to do!

Edited March 24, 20188 yr by mrbilky
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