Help, Slow NAS

[Flavlus]

Just picked up a cheap nas . Much cheaper than the drives would cost alone. I am however getting very slow Transfer speeds .. around 11.4mb/s ,

 

My router is gigabit . Do you know why this would be the case ? ANY HELP ?

 

[BubblyCharizard]

sounds like an atom issue

 

they were never really designed for gigabit speeds

 

although 11M translates to roughly what a 100Mbit card should give you...possible that the nas only has a 10/100 in it

[Flavlus]

1 minute ago, BubblyCharizard said:

sounds like an atom issue

 

they were never really designed for gigabit speeds

 

Others have hit gigabit speeds on this kind of NAS before

 

[BubblyCharizard]

what drives(s) are in the device?

[Flavlus]

3 minutes ago, BubblyCharizard said:

what drives(s) are in the device?

7200 rpm  2 in raid 1 and one by itself

(Greens)

[BubblyCharizard]

WD Greens in a NAS? prebuilt?

 

which NAS is it?

[Flavlus]

not pre build.. prev owner built it

[BubblyCharizard]

WD Greens aren't even made anymore, not sure why they would build a NAS with them, I'd use blacks or reds

 

That could be a bit of the bottleneck, but shouldn't be all of it.

 

What specs does it have?

[Flavlus]

Just now, BubblyCharizard said:

WD Greens aren't even made anymore, not sure why they would build a NAS with them, I'd use blacks or reds

 

That could be a bit of the bottleneck, but shouldn't be all of it.

 

What specs does it have?

 

Image has specs in it

 

[BubblyCharizard]

What NIC does it have?

 

image only shows the CPU and RAM config

[nobiggieBIG]

34 minutes ago, Flavlus said:

Just picked up a cheap nas . Much cheaper than the drives would cost alone. I am however getting very slow Transfer speeds .. around 11.4mb/s ,

 

My router is gigabit . Do you know why this would be the case ? ANY HELP ?

 

11mb/s is 100mbps+/-10mbps.

[BubblyCharizard]

you might find performance increases if you change to a different Raid setup, but for any serious data backup, I'd go with Raid 5 and 3-4 WD Blacks/Reds

[SCHISCHKA]

I dont think this has to do with the CPU, the drives, or the RAID settings.

Go to the network settings and confirm the link is connecting at gigabit speed. to me it looks like your connection has downgraded to 100M. If you can ssh into the router you can test the network speed without using the drives by following these instructions: https://jbowes.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/measuring-network-speeds-with-netcat-and-dd/

There is more than one way to use /dev/random but they all pretty much require your computer to be running a unix-like OS.

[Flavlus]

1 hour ago, SCHISCHKA said:

I dont think this has to do with the CPU, the drives, or the RAID settings.

Go to the network settings and confirm the link is connecting at gigabit speed. to me it looks like your connection has downgraded to 100M. If you can ssh into the router you can test the network speed without using the drives by following these instructions: https://jbowes.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/measuring-network-speeds-with-netcat-and-dd/

There is more than one way to use /dev/random but they all pretty much require your computer to be running a unix-like OS.

 

what do you mean network settings .. on the NAS or my desktop

 

[Flavlus]

2 hours ago, BubblyCharizard said:

What NIC does it have?

 

image only shows the CPU and RAM config

 

any easy way of finding that out ?

 

[Eniqmatic]

Why do you have only 3GB of RAM when the MINIMUM required is 8GB?

 

Also, go to the shell or SSH, and type "ifconfig" and output result here.

[SCHISCHKA]

The 8gb ram min is for zfs but it doesn't look like you are using zfs

[Pixel5]

post a picture of the network tab of the page you have posted earlier, the speed it too close to a 100mbit/s connection to be randomly so slow, there is either a slow network card in there or a wrong configuration.

[AshleyAshes]

It's very possible that an Atom D510 system only has a 100mbit Ethernet connection.  We need to see the network adapter specs to know for sure.

[Mikensan]

- Why in the world are you running x86? That CPU is x64 capable.

- RAM is going to help performance, increase if you can*

 

*However I think your issue of 11mbps is your NIC. Either the NAS / Switch / PC is operating at 100mbits. You need to verify all three (do not assume) are actually gigabit. 

On your PC - if it's running windows then I assume you know how to get to connections to verify

On your switch - verify the model number in google, or look for 10/100/1000 written over the ports.

On FreeNAS - Install 9.10 in x64 for goodness sake. It's possible the x86 version has a bad driver for your NIC and it's running at 100mbps. You can verify this by going to console/shell as @Eniqmatic pointed out, or under the Network Summary within FreeNAS GUI.

 

.. Just because others are getting 1gb out of it doesn't mean you will. They could be running dedicated NICs, different hard drives, SSDs for cache, x64 version, different switch and/or desktop. So many variables.

[Flavlus]

kind of solved the problem .. wasnt using a cat5 cable .. but now still only getting 80 ish MB/s with 2 disks in raid 0 ... or whatever striped is .. im guessing raid 0 

[Flavlus]

disks are 2 Baracudas 

[Eniqmatic]

18 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

The 8gb ram min is for zfs but it doesn't look like you are using zfs

Its on 9.2, the only option is ZFS.

[Flavlus]

Just now, Eniqmatic said:

Its on 9.2, the only option is ZFS.

but you dont have to use it in that way you can turn of the features

 

[Eniqmatic]

Do explain what "features" you are going to disable that will help?