FreeNAS server extremely slow

As my title says, writing and reading files from my FreeNAS server is extremely slow.


Copy File Bench started...

Copy D:\Videos\Extremer_s_frag_movie.wmv to \\Freenas\backup_storage\Extremer_s_frag_movie.wmv
Size: 144104445
Time: 539562 ms
Transfer Rate: 0.255 MB/s

Copy File Bench ended

Read File Bench started...

Read file: \\Freenas\backup_storage\Extremer_s_frag_movie.wmv
Size: 144104445 bytes
Time: 305922 ms
Transfer Rate: 0.449 MB/s

Read File Bench ended


This is with a 54 Mbps wireless connection, which should be giving 6,75 MB/s write/read speeds. Copying a 80 GB file to my NAS server is taking me around 24 hours or so... Which should only take me around 4-5 hours (theoretically).

Is this on your local LAN?

My Linux wifi is capped at 1MB/s even though it says I am connected at N speeds. I am sure it has something to do with crappy wifi drivers.

I would try wired lan to see if it copies at the appropriate speeds. If it doesn't then you might have IDE/SATA controller issues. If it does then you might have wifi driver issues.

Either way I have never gotten FreeNAS SMB working properly. NFS works perfectly but not SMB.

Well the NAS server is connected with wire, and I am connected wireless. I'm not sure if it is the sata controller, but maybe. I'll try NFS then.

Edit: Ok I tried with a computer that is connected by normal cable connection and that computer is copying a 222 mb file in less than 25 seconds. So I figure the wireless might be the culprit here.

Edit2: I can confirm that it is the wireless, I connected my pc the router with a wire, and voila, I can now write my 80 GB file within 3 hours... What a difference, time to buy a 20 meter cable + gigabit switch...

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Well the NAS server is connected with wire, and I am connected wireless. I'm not sure if it is the sata controller, but maybe. I'll try NFS then.

Edit: Ok I tried with a computer that is connected by normal cable connection and that computer is copying a 222 mb file in less than 25 seconds. So I figure the wireless might be the culprit here.

Edit2: I can confirm that it is the wireless, I connected my pc the router with a wire, and voila, I can now write my 80 GB file within 3 hours... What a difference, time to buy a 20 meter cable + gigabit switch...

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A wired connection will be much much faster and I think if you want multiple users to use this NAS then wired is definitely the way to go. A gigabit switch and cable shouldn't cost that much and definitely worth it.

Here is a graph that illustrates my speeds, as you can see it is not consistent and is constantly dropping from 2 MB/s to 0-0,5 MB/s. There is nothing that could disturb my wireless signal, so what else should I be looking at?

Oh and another thing, I have incremental backup selected in acronis true image and when I do my data backup again acronis true image just makes a full backup again. I have only added around 5 GB of files since last backup and at 31% of my backup the backup2 file was already 36 GB... Mind boggling...