Any FreeNAS users?

[Si.]

Just wondering if there were any FreeNAS users here, and how you find it?

I've been running it on my Microserver under ESXi5 and I'm finding the performance to be rather rubbish. Really slow transfer speeds on both CIFS and FTP. only getting approx. 2-3MB/sec over gigabit ethernet. I'm also finding it rather inconsistent with transfer speeds having large peaks and troughs, not a steady rate as I would expect.

 

[Si.]

Just upgraded to 8.0.4, same problem.

I've made a few changes and I'm getting what appears to be batches of transfers, it will run 40mb/s for a few seconds, then 0 for a few seconds and so on.

 

[Si.]

Yea, that could be the problem. I seem to get nice sustained read speeds, it's just writes it struggles with.

I'm thinking of scrapping the ESXi setup and just installing 2008 R2 on there instead.