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Transfer from external USB 2 HDD -> ZFS

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Transfer from external USB 2 HDD -> ZFS

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Hi,
Moving files from my external USB 2.0 HDD connected on my newly setup NAS I only get write speeds of ~2-3MB per second... Anyone who has an idea on why?

Running a zfs pool with 3x3TB disks, single parity. 8GB RAM...

Regards, Tobbe G
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Re: Transfer from external USB 2 HDD -> ZFS

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What transfer speed do you spect of a USB conection?.

Do you try copy/move by SAMBA or FTP from other PC?

PD: Try copy first and delete when done, and compare speed.
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Re: Transfer from external USB 2 HDD -> ZFS

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Sorry was unclear... I am copying files, not moving.
Speed to copy from other computer in network (100Mbit fixed network) to a CIFS share on the NAS is 1.5MB/s (in parallel with the copy process from USB).
Stopping one or the other activity will not increase the throughput for the other activity still running...
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1) 3x 3TB in RaidZ1
2) 2x 500GB in RAID 1 - weekly backup of selected data from 1)
3) 1x 1TB external USB HDD - used for offsite backup of 2)
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Re: Transfer from external USB 2 HDD -> ZFS

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Perhaps your pool was in degraded state, can you check and put a copy on your pool status?.

If was online (not degraded), you must do several test to identify your bottleneck.

1 first you test your Disk I/O using dd

perhaps this post help you: viewtopic.php?f=66&t=208


PD: Wait until copy terminate, do not initiate Test if Nas4free is working copying/moving data.
12.1.0.4 - Ingva (revision 7743) on SUPERMICRO X8SIL-F 8GB of ECC RAM, 11x3TB disk in 1 vdev = Vpool = 32TB Raw size , so 29TB usable size (I Have other NAS as Backup)

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