FreeNAS Alternative

Yeh I am. Being dumb here I expect but now they are direct connected, windows just shows an unidentified network and I can't see anything to transfer to?

Appreciate your help so far!
 
That's odd, have you set the network as private home or public in windows (I think home is the one you want if you don't use passwords on your shares).
 
CaNsA said:
I've been using OpenMediaVault for the past couple of years on my N54L.

Easy to install, easy to setup.

http://www.openmediavault.org/
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I love OMV! I also tried FreeNas and wasn't keen on it. My OMV server is actually just a backup for my NAS server so it has a load of old drives in there.

2x2TB
4x1TB

OMV allows me to create the S/W Raid 0 between the 2 sets of drives so show as 4TB for each drive. Then I just created another S/W Raid 1 to mirror them. Tested breaking the RAID 1 and the rebuild was seamless!

DATA rates from my HP I was getting 80/90MB/s IIRC.
 
On mine I'm rocking:-

40GB SSD for OMV, it cost me about 20 quid last year.
4 x 3TB HGST for storage in 2 x Raid 1 arrays.

Transferring to and from my desktop gives me around 80MB/s through my gigabit network.

:D
 
CaNsA said:
On mine I'm rocking:-

40GB SSD for OMV, it cost me about 20 quid last year.
4 x 3TB HGST for storage in 2 x Raid 1 arrays.

Transferring to and from my desktop gives me around 80MB/s through my gigabit network.

:D
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Doesn't seem great I read and write at ~105MB/s with ZFS on Linux (Same filesystem as FreeNAS)
 
stewski said:
Did a quick google...

https://tinkertry.com/how-to-change-windows-10-network-type-from-public-to-private

Is it there?
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Sorry Stew, gave up in the end and left it running at 4MB/s. Got up this morning to 16% of 606GB completed and it now running at 650kb/s :rolleyes:

That can't be right. Do we think it's more likely to be the network or the hard drive?

Will have a dig around at work today and see if I can find a long Cat5 cable, then I'll plug them both into the router directly, no homeplugs.

Although I don't understand why it's at 650kb/s this morning :confused:
 
Orch said:
Sorry Stew, gave up in the end and left it running at 4MB/s. Got up this morning to 16% of 606GB completed and it now running at 650kb/s :rolleyes:

That can't be right. Do we think it's more likely to be the network or the hard drive?

Will have a dig around at work today and see if I can find a long Cat5 cable, then I'll plug them both into the router directly, no homeplugs.

Although I don't understand why it's at 650kb/s this morning :confused:
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You can test network bandwidth using iperf.

Hard drives are a little more difficult but you can get a rough idea of sequential speeds using dd (However be very careful as it's easy to nuke a drive if you use it wrongly)
 
This is what happened to the already slow speed early in the morning

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Well, it's not the read speed of the old drive, just tried transferring from an SSD to the server and it's the same restriction.

So far I have tried

- Disabling “TCP Auto-Tuning”
- Disabling “Large Send Offload (LSO)”
- Disabling IP6
- Set Speed & Duplex to auto in network card properties
- Disabled Windows Firewall
- Disabled Windows Defender

None have made any difference.

have rebooted server and client numerous times.

I'd actually be chuffed if I got 5MB/s back now lol
 
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Orch said:
Well, it's not the read speed of the old drive, just tried transferring from an SSD to the server and it's the same restriction.

So far I have tried

- Disabling “TCP Auto-Tuning”
- Disabling “Large Send Offload (LSO)”
- Disabling IP6
- Set Speed & Duplex to auto in network card properties
- Disabled Windows Firewall
- Disabled Windows Defender

None have made any difference.

have rebooted server and client numerous times.

I'd actually be chuffed if I got 5MB/s back now lol
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Specs of the server? Including NIC

Network configuration? wired, power lines, wireless?

Have you tried Iperf to confirm network is a bottleneck? Preferably from multiple clients
 
Had a look at iperf, no idea how to use it. Will have another look later.

A router reboot has got me back to 5MB/s, more investigations once kids in bed.
 
How many drives do you have in your server?
What drive are you running OMV on?
Can you show me screen shots of the following form the webgui :-
Storage > File Systems
and
Storage > Physical Disks

Cheers
 
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I chatted with David in IRC

[+Davidh2k] i dunno, we always have some guy once in a while that gets really bad transfer rates
[+Davidh2k] he has to run 'iperf -s' <- on the server
[+Davidh2k] and at the other end he has to run 'iperf -d -c HOSTNAMEofSERVER' <- on the client. If the client is a winbox, you can get iperf for windows from here

https://iperf.fr/iperf-download.php
 
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CaNsA said:
How many drives do you have in your server?
What drive are you running OMV on?
Can you show me screen shots of the following form the webgui :-
Storage > File Systems
and
Storage > Physical Disks

Cheers
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One 3TB drive

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CaNsA said:
I chatted with David in IRC

[+Davidh2k] i dunno, we always have some guy once in a while that gets really bad transfer rates
[+Davidh2k] he has to run 'iperf -s' <- on the server
[+Davidh2k] and at the other end he has to run 'iperf -d -c HOSTNAMEofSERVER' <- on the client. If the client is a winbox, you can get iperf for windows from here

https://iperf.fr/iperf-download.php
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Ok, will give it a shot, but don't have a clue how to achieve this. I'm guessing I need to SSH into the server then enter that command? It's been a few years since I've done anything via SSH!
 
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