DIY NAS review with an HP Microserver and FreeNAS

[Derek Atkins]

Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org> writes:

> Exporting filesystems by NFS and AFP are pretty straightforward and you 
> can share filesystems using multiple methods.  NFS speed is really 
> good.  Copying data over a 1GBE link was writing at about 40MB/s.  With 
> a bunch of 10 and 20GB mkv files in place, reading them gave me just shy 
> of 100MB/s:
>
> $ dd if=mybigfile.mkv of=/dev/null
> 40558708+1 records in
> 40558708+1 records out
> 20766058991 bytes (21 GB) copied, 209.346 s, 99.2 MB/s
>
> Zoom.

What client hardware/software are you using here for these tests?  And
what is your network infrastructure?

-derek

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