{"id":9517,"date":"2020-02-20T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T06:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=9517"},"modified":"2020-02-20T23:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T06:40:15","slug":"disappointed-with-file-server-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=9517","title":{"rendered":"Disappointed With File Server Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just ran some numbers on my new file server, not much of a jump in performance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the Old Server<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"> Running warmup\u2026\n Running a 400MB file write on 5 times\u2026\n Iteration 1:     95.27 MB\/sec\n Iteration 2:     72.43 MB\/sec\n Iteration 3:     84.90 MB\/sec\n Iteration 4:     83.43 MB\/sec\n Iteration 5:     92.99 MB\/sec\n Average (W):     85.80 MB\/sec\n Running a 400MB file read on  5 times\u2026\n Iteration 1:    111.62 MB\/sec\n Iteration 2:    113.26 MB\/sec\n Iteration 3:    111.91 MB\/sec\n Iteration 4:    110.12 MB\/sec\n Iteration 5:    110.76 MB\/sec\n Average (R):    111.54 MB\/sec<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the New Server<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"> Running warmup\u2026\n Running a 400MB file write on 5 times\u2026\n Iteration 1:     96.55 MB\/sec\n Iteration 2:     92.71 MB\/sec\n Iteration 3:     53.75 MB\/sec\n Iteration 4:     95.83 MB\/sec\n Iteration 5:     96.53 MB\/sec\n Average (W):     87.07 MB\/sec\n Running a 400MB file read on  5 times\u2026\n Iteration 1:    111.38 MB\/sec\n Iteration 2:    112.75 MB\/sec\n Iteration 3:    113.10 MB\/sec\n Iteration 4:    112.82 MB\/sec\n Iteration 5:    112.72 MB\/sec\n Average (R):    112.56 MB\/sec<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>For yucks this is my FreeNAS server<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"> Running warmup\u2026\n Running a 400MB file write on 5 times\u2026\n Iteration 1:     16.71 MB\/sec\n Iteration 2:     46.09 MB\/sec\n Iteration 3:     46.66 MB\/sec\n Iteration 4:     46.68 MB\/sec\n Iteration 5:     46.35 MB\/sec\n Average (W):     40.50 MB\/sec\n Running a 400MB file read on  5 times\u2026\n Iteration 1:    116.79 MB\/sec\n Iteration 2:    115.78 MB\/sec\n Iteration 3:    114.69 MB\/sec\n Iteration 4:    115.92 MB\/sec\n Iteration 5:    115.38 MB\/sec\n Average (R):    115.71 MB\/sec<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You read that right, the write performance is the worst on FreeNAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want even worse news<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-apolonio-blog\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"vkKYcLYelV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=3595\">Getting Some New Hard Drives<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Getting Some New Hard Drives&#8221; &#8212; Apolonio Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=3595&#038;embed=true#?secret=0JgbpAoh5v#?secret=vkKYcLYelV\" data-secret=\"vkKYcLYelV\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Performance was better in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least on my media server it is slower<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"> Running warmup\u2026\n Running a 400MB file write on  5 times\u2026\n Iteration 1:     95.58 MB\/sec\n Iteration 2:     95.30 MB\/sec\n Iteration 3:     93.64 MB\/sec\n Iteration 4:     95.42 MB\/sec\n Iteration 5:    106.52 MB\/sec\n Average (W):     97.29 MB\/sec\n Running a 400MB file read on  5 times\u2026\n Iteration 1:    111.93 MB\/sec\n Iteration 2:    109.07 MB\/sec\n Iteration 3:    111.53 MB\/sec\n Iteration 4:    110.52 MB\/sec\n Iteration 5:    112.17 MB\/sec\n Average (R):    111.04 MB\/sec<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>With that said, I&#8217;m not too surprised, because the network was busy when these tests were run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going Live with the server tomorrow night when I get home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weight: 303.8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just ran some numbers on my new file server, not much of a jump in performance This is the Old Server Running warmup\u2026 Running a 400MB file write on 5 times\u2026 Iteration 1: 95.27 MB\/sec Iteration 2: 72.43 MB\/sec Iteration &hellip; 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