December 23, 201015 yr Hi, I'm currently looking for an OS for my new fileserver and unRaid is one of the products that I'm considdering. But what speeds are you people getting for read/write?
December 23, 201015 yr It depends on your setup. Generally you can safely stream HD media but unRAID is slower than most other fileservers. For a reason... flexibilty comes at a speed cost. However thre is a cache disk feature to bypass this
December 23, 201015 yr In a few minutes shy of 18 hours, I have written 3.7T to my new box, over gigabit and NFS. I tried to play Avatar in full BD folder structure in parallel to the copy, but 8-10 minutes in it started dropping sound and frames. This was in parallel to the 4.3TB copy. Another BD, across the hall, played just fine. Count this into the 18 hours above. I should mention that is without parity, which will be added later. I will replay or edit with the throughput I get, but regardless it isn't on par with the faster NAS units, but cost per TB it kills the NAS units that it performs on a par with, in my experience. The source for the NFS copy to the unRAID is a Netgear RNDU4000.
December 23, 201015 yr Author Ok thanks. Guess I'll give it a test along a couple of other options then.
December 24, 201015 yr typical read/write speeds of 60/30 MB/s Thats a bit like saying my car does 100kph so your car will to. Its prettyc ertain with no system issues and modern hardware you can get there but no one can say these number are typical without heavy caveats
December 25, 201015 yr typical read/write speeds of 60/30 MB/s Thats a bit like saying my car does 100kph so your car will to. Its prettyc ertain with no system issues and modern hardware you can get there but no one can say these number are typical without heavy caveats I was answering his OP were he mentioned he was considering a new fileserver. I assumed he was planning on building a new system with modern hardware. If so then I see no reason he wouldn't get around 30/60 MB/s once his system is defined assuming he build it with the recommended hardware. If anyone here does build a new system with the recommended hardware and correct configuration/setup do you see any reason not to get around these speeds?
December 25, 201015 yr These speeds are definitely obtainable but system tuning and careful purchases are a necessity i.e. the caveats. Common sense perhaps but what seems every day to us might not to a new system builder
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