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This is just really interesting to me for some reason. Any chance you have a picture of it in whatever rig it belongs too?

UPDATE 3! Looks like everything is working great with the server now! I'm consistently reading and writing to the pool at over 100 MB/s! Seems like all the issues were being caused by my router. I honestly still don't know why, but I do know it has nothing to do with my FreeNAS Box anymore. I'll continue looking into it since my current setup isn't ideal, though I'm very excited to finally have everything working! Thank you all for your help today!

Okay, thank you! That's good to know.

I'll definitely look into the settings on my router next since it seems like that's where a lot of problems are coming from. Also, as far as speed go, my real-world performance seems a lot better! Transferring media back and forth from an SSD I'm seeing closer to 70-80 MB/s with it peaking just above 100 MB/s from time to time. Are your numbers from iperf or what you're actually seeing?

Okay, interesting! I was always under the impressions that RAID 6 performed a bit worse than RAID 5 due to the extra parity drive. If that's not the case then I see no reason not to switch to RaidZ2 as soon as I get everything figured out. I believe the ideal setup is 1Gb of RAM for each TB of storage? And if it's ECC even better. I've heard of it impacting performance but only when you're under the recommended amount. I could be wrong of course. My laptop does have a gigabit LAN port, I double checked though since you brought it up. All good there! Based on what I just tested, and since all of the drives are brand new I don't think I'm running into an issues with sector sizes. However, that's very interesting and I'm happy you brought it up!

UPDATE 2! Okay! So it looks like it has to be something with the way my local network is configured. I just found an old D-Link gigabit switch and connected my desktop and the FreeNAS server to it. Then connected that to my powerline kit. Much, much better! 57-58 Megabytes per second now! jperf test: http://puu.sh/fi27R/fe28bd3817.png So now I can at least use it with my desktop at much more reasonable speeds. I'm still very curious as to where the problem lies on my local network though. It seems very odd.

UPDATE! Still having issues with throughput to the server. Even when I connected my laptop and the FreeNAS Box directly to my router, the connection speed was still awful. With iperf/jperf I was only getting about 5 Megabytes per second. The router (Linksys EA6900) has gigabit ports on the back and I used Cat6 cable to connect everything up. What should I do now?

Yeah, I understand. I read up on all of that a bit before building this. I would definitely considering switching to RaidZ2 but performance is pretty important to me. Any idea on what kind of performance hits I might see? I read a few horror stories on r/DataHoarder about failed rebuilds with a RAID 5 array due to another drive dying from the stress of the rebuild. I can't even imagine the frustration!

I assume so! But it's really looking like my powerline kit is going to be what's bottlenecking the entire setup. I'm testing it now!

Wow, that's really interesting. I'm assuming it was the flash drive at fault though, right? Had you installed FreeNAS from it before, successfully?

Okay! Good to know. I'll hook up my NAS and my laptop directly to the router so I can test speeds without the powerline kit.

I would assume I'm full gigabit, though the powerline kit is a bit old so I'll look into it a bit more. All the cabling I'm using is Cat6/5e, the NIC's in my desktop and NAS are both gigabit capable, and the router is a Linksys EA6900 which I'm sure has gigabit ports on it. I really do like the total capacity I'm getting with RaidZ though, and I understand that the writes will suffer. But I could always switch to RaidZ2 right? Isn't that essentially RAID 6?

Really? How did that happen? If you don't mind my asking of course.

For the speed, are you referring to the LAN on the Motherboard? If so, the product page says it's gigabit. If you're talking about the powerline kit, here's the product page for it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0AJ0UV7861 And, I apologize, I'm not sure what you mean when you say "300N".

Hello all! Just finished building my first FreeNAS box and I've run into quite a few problems. I've tried a few different versions of FreeNAS (Though I'm back on 9.3 now) and I'm getting consistently awful throughput. I'm sitting at around 11-13 Megabytes per second when both reading and writing from the server (I'll list the specs below so you can see what I'm working with). Now, I ran i test using iperf/jperf from my desktop to the server and it's giving me 13 MBps as my result. I'm fairly new to this, but I believe that it's only testing my highest possible throughput through the network right? Not actually testing the drive pool's speed? Either way, that seems oddly low. Over wireless with my laptop it's less than half of that. Connection test with jperf to my server: http://puu.sh/fhBWb/f3e842b14c.png FreeNAS Box Specs: OS: FreeNAS 9.3 (Stable Release) CPU: AMD Phenom X6 1090T MOBO: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Rev.1 RAM: 8Gb Mushkin Silverline 1333Mhz (Yes, I know I need more of it ) NIC: Realtek 8111E (Onboard NIC) PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 650G1 HDD's: 5x3TB WD Red's in RaidZ I just have a CIFS share setup which is how I'm accessing the pool through Windows. Also, and this could be important too, but I have the server upstairs next to my desktop. Both are connected to a WD Livewire (Powerline Kit) which is connected to my router. I've never had any issues with it before, especially with speed. I also connected the server directly to the router and performance was actually a bit worse, though it improved over wireless which I thought was interesting. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'd really like to get this up and running before the weekend it over! If there's anything I need to give you all to help with the troubleshooting process please let me know! I'll do my best to get it! Update 1: Still having issues with throughput to the server. Even when I connected my laptop and the FreeNAS Box directly to my router, the connection speed was still awful. With iperf/jperf I was only getting about 5 Megabytes per second. The router (Linksys EA6900) has gigabit ports on the back and I used Cat6 cable to connect everything up. Update 2: Okay! So it looks like it has to be something with the way my local network is configured. I just found an old D-Link gigabit switch and connected my desktop and the FreeNAS server to it. Then connected that to my powerline kit. Much, much better! 57-58 Megabytes per second now! jperf test: http://puu.sh/fi27R/fe28bd3817.png So now I can at least use it with my desktop at much more reasonable speeds. I'm still very curious as to where the problem lies on my local network though. It seems very odd. Update 3: Looks like everything is working great with the server now! I'm consistently reading and writing to the pool at over 100 MB/s! Seems like all the issues were being caused by my router. I honestly still don't know why, but I do know it has nothing to do with my FreeNAS Box anymore. I'll continue looking into it since my current setup isn't ideal, though I'm very excited to finally have everything working! Thank you all for your help today!