2011-05-09, 16:27
flymods Wrote:I don't really know what else to say about the network speeds to make you believe that what I'm acheiving is normal for most NAS solutions. The I/O of several disks together is always going to be higher than individual disks and after that point its just presenting the data over tcp/ip at whatever speed your network will support (in my case gig).Please don't get me wrong, I'm not calling you a liar and I believe they are the speeds you are getting, it just surprised me that you are always pushing at the limit of the gigabit spec, if you include file protocol overhead. I would expect to see it at times, yes, but I personally wouldn't have considered it a standard occurrence.
With a decent I/O cache drive present in Unraid, your network should be the limiting factor, just like any other NAS solution. Without a cache drive though, yes - performance may well be lower as the bottleneck is at the parity calculation stage, not the disk I/O stage.