Disappointed With File Server Performance

Just ran some numbers on my new file server, not much of a jump in performance

This is the Old Server

 Running warmup…
 Running a 400MB file write on 5 times…
 Iteration 1:     95.27 MB/sec
 Iteration 2:     72.43 MB/sec
 Iteration 3:     84.90 MB/sec
 Iteration 4:     83.43 MB/sec
 Iteration 5:     92.99 MB/sec
 Average (W):     85.80 MB/sec
 Running a 400MB file read on  5 times…
 Iteration 1:    111.62 MB/sec
 Iteration 2:    113.26 MB/sec
 Iteration 3:    111.91 MB/sec
 Iteration 4:    110.12 MB/sec
 Iteration 5:    110.76 MB/sec
 Average (R):    111.54 MB/sec

This is the New Server

 Running warmup…
 Running a 400MB file write on 5 times…
 Iteration 1:     96.55 MB/sec
 Iteration 2:     92.71 MB/sec
 Iteration 3:     53.75 MB/sec
 Iteration 4:     95.83 MB/sec
 Iteration 5:     96.53 MB/sec
 Average (W):     87.07 MB/sec
 Running a 400MB file read on  5 times…
 Iteration 1:    111.38 MB/sec
 Iteration 2:    112.75 MB/sec
 Iteration 3:    113.10 MB/sec
 Iteration 4:    112.82 MB/sec
 Iteration 5:    112.72 MB/sec
 Average (R):    112.56 MB/sec

For yucks this is my FreeNAS server

 Running warmup…
 Running a 400MB file write on 5 times…
 Iteration 1:     16.71 MB/sec
 Iteration 2:     46.09 MB/sec
 Iteration 3:     46.66 MB/sec
 Iteration 4:     46.68 MB/sec
 Iteration 5:     46.35 MB/sec
 Average (W):     40.50 MB/sec
 Running a 400MB file read on  5 times…
 Iteration 1:    116.79 MB/sec
 Iteration 2:    115.78 MB/sec
 Iteration 3:    114.69 MB/sec
 Iteration 4:    115.92 MB/sec
 Iteration 5:    115.38 MB/sec
 Average (R):    115.71 MB/sec

You read that right, the write performance is the worst on FreeNAS

Want even worse news

Performance was better in 2013.

At least on my media server it is slower

 Running warmup…
 Running a 400MB file write on  5 times…
 Iteration 1:     95.58 MB/sec
 Iteration 2:     95.30 MB/sec
 Iteration 3:     93.64 MB/sec
 Iteration 4:     95.42 MB/sec
 Iteration 5:    106.52 MB/sec
 Average (W):     97.29 MB/sec
 Running a 400MB file read on  5 times…
 Iteration 1:    111.93 MB/sec
 Iteration 2:    109.07 MB/sec
 Iteration 3:    111.53 MB/sec
 Iteration 4:    110.52 MB/sec
 Iteration 5:    112.17 MB/sec
 Average (R):    111.04 MB/sec

With that said, I’m not too surprised, because the network was busy when these tests were run.

Going Live with the server tomorrow night when I get home.

On another note, I got a vSpheree 6.0 server upgraded today, that was good, combined the PSC and VC into one, basically going from VC with External PSC to VC with Embedded PSC.

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