10gb Peer to Peer With Your FreeNAS Server

[@Slider-Man]

The amount of times i come back to this video always saves my ass when i have to redo my nas stuff and always forget 1 step or so, only video ever that i have found that covers exactly what i need with the IP address and Host settings to set.

[@Taylordtech]

Hey guys! Well this video took much longer to pull together than I thought it would. Ive been using Blender as my video editor since I started the channel but no matter what I did it wouldnt keep the audio in sync. Switched to Hitfilm Express and, after re-learning everything, it came together without a hitch.

[@LoverOfTech]

Taylord Tech good to have you back bro... keep em coming... editing it the pain of it all but once its done it feels good.

[@glenewhittenberg]

Nice vid. I run dual port CNA 10gtek cards and cables in my setup. I have my PC and ESXi server with 10G connections to my NAS. Centos 7 running 4.x kernel with 8 drive RAID10 BTRFS. It took lots of tuning in each os to get the speeds I get. I run most if my ESXi images from the NAS and they as fast as running it from a local 850 pro SSD I have in the ESXi server. I use all we red 3tb drives in my NAS with is on a 850 pro SSD. I use the SSD for Plex transcoding from my NAS as well. Once you go 10G you never go back.

[@Slider-Man]

This video will never not be useful lol, i could not figure out why my 10g speed was not being used and i legit forgot that when i added back my drives ( from a windows reinstall ) that i forgot to add back the smb as a 10gb folder and not my regular one, came back here and saw my mistake so please lawd never take this video down, once again helped me out.

[@IanEisenberg]

Any chance for an update on this? A lot of the interface has changed and every time I try to configure my 10GB ports my netconfig has to be reset.

[@TheDogcatchersito]

Seconded

[@H3RO887]

Starts at 8:00. Note: The Amazon link is dead for the 10G card is dead, but you can still find the Mellanox cards on Amazon. If you are using a Mac or you are running a Hackintosh, don’t order the Mellanox cards. They are NOT compatible with OSX (but they are for Windows/Linux). If you want OSX compatibility go for the Solarflare SFN5122F Dual-port 10G Ethernet SFP+ Adapter. I found them on eBay for as low as $16 USD (seller ID was unixpluscom).

[@nomorebs1668]

So that is really cool that you did not need a switch - for some reason most switches only provide 2 10gb for some reason. It would be interesting to know if you could put 3 10gb network cards in the freenas and be able to share with 3 computers. I do not see any switches with more than 2 10gb ports for some crazy reason

[@koikahinhai]

Thanks Taylord! I thought 10G Ethernet was way to expensive till I saw this video. Now I have this 10G peer-to-peer SFP+ between FreeNAS and my main PC. Speeds went up from ~100 MBps to 180 MBps or more. Huge improvement !!!

[@Taylordtech]

Glad it helped!

[@cruisinguy6024]

180 Mbps is less than 1 gigabit which is horribly slow for a gigabit connection let alone 10 gig.

[@ericf7769]

Anderson Rush those are capital B's, bro.

[@MatthewHill]

Love your desktop background!

[@SyberPrepper]

Love the video. Lots of great detailed information. Also lots of good comments too. Thanks!

[@Taylordtech]

+SyberPrepper appreciate it!

[@HG-mt3vl]

Great video, just tweak metrics in system and u can use both 10g and 1g on same lan

[@TheErasedGuy]

Great overview, this is exactly what I'm looking to do, but I couldn't find a clear cut answer on how to do it.

[@ryanvox1]

This is a good start for me. I have two Truenas machines. One is my dedicated and one is a backup just in case. I am currently transferring files from my main to my backup and the SMB out traffic is crashing Plex. I did some research to see if i could do a peer to peer set up. How would i do a peer to peer set up to transfer files on two truenas machines without a windows machine in-between?

[@Narwaro]

I find SFP+ much less of a hassle than RJ45. RJ45 is for consumers and low-tier management interfaces. Apart from bloody vendor lock-ins it is very easy to do fibre. Bend it, trip on the cord, route 10 through a pipe? No problem. It is just less volume when doing cabling and the cables are much thinner. One of the advantages is that 850nm fibre uses much less power than RJ45, that is a real consideration if every network card is starting to pull 25W for a 2 meter cable, as much as half a Terabyte of RAM. SFP+ is also cheap as chips comparted to RJ45. Cards are basically free and I want to see you buy a real RJ45 switch under 3 TOUSAND dollars.

[@chrismoore9997]

Would you be wiling to do tests like this again? Perhaps publish an updated video with lessons learned?

[@Taylordtech]

Chris Moore testing network speed? Certainly. First I'll be doing a video on backing up your VMs tho cause I've spent all weekend rebuilding my home env after my zentyal VM got orphaned on a different network and I lost access to my hyperv host (which was on the domain zentyal controlled)

[@jolebole-yt]

I got the single port Melanox 10GbE cards for $16 each on ebay. They work great!

[@Taylordtech]

+Goran Jordanov yep! Perfect for a home solution.

[@jolebole-yt]

I got 4 of those 4 Melanox cards and one dual Chelsio. Both showed up automatically in FreeNAS, Debian 8 and Ubuntu Mate. I'm loving the 10GbE! Now I gotta buy faster drives :)

[@Narwaro]

Let me give all that come after me a little trick: FreeBSD is nice with its praised network stack and all, but Linux is much easier here: Just set up an Ethernet bridge on your regular Gigabit card on the motherboard and the 10G card. I bonded 4 together beforehand, but that does not matter. Now you can just use dhcp on the other machine and everything is plug and play (as long as you have the right transcievers, bloody HP, Cisco and Juniper)

[@ierosgr]

came across your video and noticed that you missed (since it was an overall peer to peer video and not just speeds after configuration video) to explain the way you setup the share to use the 10gb network instead of the 1gb. Did you pass the disk to windows as iscsi target? It should feel way more complete approach if you include that as well. Not it seems there is a gap

[@DisneyLovers_DL]

Taylord Tech, I just built a freenas server as a new host for my storage. Previously it was a mac mini with 10gb on it, and I just updated to brand new 10TB WD Gold's which avg 200MB/s more or less. I had 8 in a Raid5 config. On the mac mini direct to/from disk was 900/1100MB respectively, but SMB with Mac as host is terrible avg 300MB/s over the NIC. With Freenas i was seeing full utilization of the 10g, but I'm not getting the read/write performance as I was on the mac. Any idea what can be done on the freenas side? I'm running intel quad core cpu w/HT w/16GB Ram. Love the channel, keeping up with the tech. I am also considering the Cisco Fabric Interconnect to add a 3rd computer to the 10g network.

[@snoman6322]

Excellent video. One stop shop.

[@marcinsosna2852]

You presented the problems very nicely :)

[@jonathanhapp5175]

Is there any tutorial video on that issue showing the configuration with Mac OS and TrueNAS Scale?

[@ashneal3104]

Very informative video, thank you.

[@StenIsaksson]

Besides the CPU, the chipset also have PCIe lanes. But the chipset only have 4 PCIe lanes to the CPU on the Intel platform so that's a bandwidth limitation.

[@vinnyc.1265]

2011-3 chipset, has 48 lanes. That's the best to build a NAS server on. you have plenty of expanson room

[@JeffreyRiggs]

Good stuff.. im not even on freenas yet but im starting to benchmark like you are... ive got HP HCA Mellanox cards - dual port seem like connectx (yes connectx-1) and im running diskmark myself... I created ramdisks on each machine, copy files between and they seem to go at 700MB/s copying an 8gb file between machines in a pier to pier. if I do a benchmark against the ramdrive itself... I get 7347 in my first field so it seems nice and fast... its interesting diskmark isn't coming anywhere near what yours looks like but when I copy files between I cant reach your speeds... could possibly be my firmware on nic now as I read somewhere on Mellanox anything below 2.9.1000 runs slower...next up - learn how to make custom firmware...

[@theandroids]

lmao I forgot i even had battlefield 1 until I saw your desktop

[@Taylordtech]

Too much time trying to get those chicken dinners!

[@jolebole-yt]

If you had a pfSense router,(if you don't what are you waiting for lol) you do not have to manually add the hosts in the host file. You can do that i the DNS Resolver in pfSense.

[@Taylordtech]

+Goran Jordanov I'm waiting on a good Craigslist deal on something that has more than 2 PCIe 8x slots! That is the ultimate plan though

[@lukenfoci]

wow, I have been using Freenas for last 2 years but was always using Classic GUI. Now, forced to use new 11.3 GUI, I kind of like it but... gosh, I love this corral GUI.

[@MrFloRolf]

Thanks for the awesome video! Does the setup work the same with an RJ45 based 10gig card? I'm eyeing the Asus one which is "just" $100. Also, what if you had a dual port card in the NAS and connected two PCs, would the transfer between PC1 and pc2 also go over 10g when setup that way? And what about 2x single 10g cards in the NAS connected to 1pc each.

[@Taylordtech]

RJ45 - yep, works the same 2 PCs 1 NAS - nope. The NAS (if it's freenas at least) has no switching logic. You would need something like pfsense or VyOS to do the switching

[@MrFloRolf]

@@Taylordtech wow nice, didn't think you'd reply, let alone this fast! Thanks! Now, I'm thinking about building my own NAS, possibly based on freenas but before I do that I have some question, so if you don't mind :P 1. What kind of hardware is a good start? I was thinking about using a Ryzen 5 2400G with some B450 board (anything special?) and 8-16gb of ram. I'd use 2x4TB HDDs for the start in a Raid1 type of array (ZFS with redundancy) and maybe add a couple more later down the road, as well as a small nvme (970evo 250gig?) cache so I can have certain things (often used games from NAS?) load faster. Is an additional raid controller necessary or can I just plug my drives into the Mainboard to use ZFS? 2. Does freenas offer a lot of apps to customize it after my wishes? For example, I'd like to have it setup as a cloud storage I can access all over the world and immediately, as soon as I enter a wifi, backup my phones photos and data. If possible I'd like to use the NAS as a compute server to run BOINC or F@H when it's unused but afaik that is not possible. Could I achieve something like this running unraid and freenas in parallel or move to unraid completely as a NAS OS? 3. Is it a good idea to install all my steam games on the NAS to be able to access them from every pc in my house? Or Would that be totally slow? The idea was to use a 10g connection to my main gaming pc but also have other 1g connected pcs access the games. Is a simultaneous access of steam games possible? (two steam accounts accessing the same game on NAS to play together?) 4. How secure is Freenas when used as a cloud? Is it possible to add trusted PC's/phones to it but have unknown PC's require a 2FA via phone/USB Reader? 5. Is there anything about the PSU I should know or is just a 'normal' 80+ Gold or Plat rated psu good enough for 24h operation? I guess that's it for the start, lol. Would be awesome if you could answer some of my questions but if not then that's fine because I really wrote a lot of stuff and probably shit :P Thanks again. Cheers!

[@Taylordtech]

Ill answer what I can, but thats a bit of a long set of questions: 1a. Based on the cheers at the end Im guessing you are in the UK/Europe somewhere. Normally I would recommend getting decommissioned datacenter hardware over doing a whitebox server build like I did in this video. They generally can accommodate more drives, have better redundancy, and will be much much less expensive....however that last point is not always true over the pond. Here in the US a used server is usually $200-400 with tons of RAM and room for 8-12 drives. You will have to price for yourself what woks best in your region. If curious about this route, check out reddit.com/r/homelab. They can answer far more questions than I can 1b. 2 drives in raid1 is also known as mirroring. Its actually less redundant than my 6-disk setup with 2 parity disks. I can drop two drives and not loose any data. If you drop 2 drives in a mirror....well its all gone. More disks in an array is usually better from a performance standpoint too. Also dont worry about the cache disk. It wont matter unless you are on 10gb. 1c. Dont use a raid controller with FreeNAS unless it has an HBA or IT mode where it passes through the disks without interference. 2. Freenas has lots of options post-install, but I havent messed with many of them. There are definitely ways to do private clouds tho, but its more involved than I can get into on a comment reply. 3. Yes, it can be a good idea. Remember that a 1gb connection is at-best 120mb/s, or slightly slower than a mechanical HDD. Loading games on other computers will be slower than reading them off a local HDD. 4. Depends entirely on setup. It can be done securely, but I dont know about 2FA. 5. Normal PSU is fine. As I previously mentioned, used enterprise gear is usually the best value since the power supplies are almost universally 80+ Platnum

[@mety9325]

@@Taylordtech Not the NAS software based, but some (all) multiport cards allow bridging. You just need your pc´s to use the right link an not go over 1g network

[@nobearclaw7308]

Bought these...keep up the videos

[@Taylordtech]

wow, really appreciate the support!

[@eugrus]

What if on the software side I just bridge the 10GE adapter of each machine with their respective main adapters? Won't that basically create a switch and let the whole thing function without the mess of creating the "second" network for 10G?

[@johnwashifi]

Hello, could you do this with Truenas 12 and Manjaro Linux? thanks!

[@leonardopinheiro6693]

Excelent video!! Thank you!

[@harrytsang1501]

I am using an old PC that only has 2 SATA 3G ports, i5 650, 4GB DDR3, onboard Gib Ethernet. One 160GB(UFS) drive for nas4free OS, torrent and VirtualBox(VPN on Debian) and one 4TB(UFS) for regular stuff, no raid but I have an offline mirror. For real, I don't think my drive could be faster by magnitudes unless I replace everything, which missed the point to make use of abandoned computers when I first build that machine. That is already fast enough for a single user on multiple devices and virtualized Debian for the convenience of disk image backup that replaced my Raspberry Pi. I can play 4k videos on my Android TV box, a stable 100MBps transfer on my desktop for transfer is good enough. I am currently moving to x265(on CPU) so bandwidth will be less of a problem as long as I can decode in real time.

[@lieftink3077]

Nice Video. I am watching this, because i want a peer to peer connection between a linux server and a desktop. With this video, i think that i can do it.

[@dominikdobrowolski9681]

I would rather recommend using mask /30 or in between routers /31 in point-to-point connections

[@robertftx]

Dominik Dobrowolski WHY??

[@crashtfa]

Iscsi would be a better use of the nas as you won’t have the overhead of smb/cifs/nfs

[@beydoin]

This question maybe a little out of scope for this video, but i'll ask anyway; How can i determine compatibility of an FC/SPF+ HBA card for my particular kind of motherboard or Dell workstation ( i currently have an Dell Precision t1700) and an Asus (Sabertooth z77) ?

[@Taylordtech]

Just make sure they are pcie 2.0 or greater and you should be ok.

[@GriffithUNIs2762194]

I'm pretty unfamiliar with networking, but let me get this; you put a 10GB NIC on your PC (which is hooked up to your router?) and a 10GB NIC on your freeNAS (also hooked up to your router?) and this allows insanely fast transfer speeds? How would I go about this if I had a laptop accessing internet and network wirelessly?

[@jasonkloos6348]

cv15 xbmc just between the 2 or more devices that have the ports. This will not benefit a laptop at all.

[@Taylordtech]

Jason is right. There isnt a laptop out there (that i know of) that is even capable of 10gb in any possible way (short of using a PCIe over Thunderbolt enclosure...which seems silly).

[@liketruth8053]

I imagine a large ssd HD in a freenas server that has a 10gbE card with a cable from that mellenox card to a a switch that would share that cable to 4 - 5 computers. Can this be done with freenas ?

[@Taylordtech]

Yes, and I've done it. Very nice to be able to share data at SSD rates over a network

[@SpaceCadet4Jesus]

Which product are you using for your RAM disk, and does it have all features you want?

[@Taylordtech]

Im using Softpedia RAMDisk. It works well enough for what I need.

[@Maisonier]

Did you try with ConnectX-3 to 56gbps? What is the max length of the cable? there is a switch or router for that device?

[@Taylordtech]

+Maisonier ConnectX-3s run $300+ on the used market, so I haven't gone there yet. Length of the fiber connection would depend on the transceivers you used. Standard SR ones will do 300m. LR ones will go 10km depending on the card and the fiber used.in this video there is no switch or router, but in a later video I do use a 10gb switch

[@uncledude6105]

Great, what if I want dual port, which card should I get?

[@robertbrackett6892]

Definitely found your video helpful! I'm running Freenas 9.10 but am stumped at why I'm only getting 400 MB/s top speed in a similar configuration (6x3TB WD Red raidZ2). Thought I read that when the storage is almost full that there could be some serious degradations in performance (I'm at 88%).

[@Taylordtech]

+Robert Brackett I'm in the middle of doing a raid performance video which will probably explain alot. Depending on your configuration and CPU it could very well be CPU bottlenecking. My drives are supposed to be 159MB/s sustained, but I hardly see more than 500MB/s in any config (when I should be between 600 and 900). My poor i3 just can't keep up.

[@Taylordtech]

+Robert Brackett also, tanks for the kind words about my video!

[@robertbrackett6892]

Definitely what I might be thinking as well. Server has a G3258 in it temporarily. I might try swapping the CPU out since I'm doing a musical chairs swap with some components.

[@Taylordtech]

+Robert Brackett yeah, that's definitely gonna help!

[@robertbrackett6892]

Turns out the issue waws the motherboard I was using had a cap on the third pcie slot to 1x in the bios. Changed it to 4x and everything is golden testing with RAM drives on each side.

[@guywhoknows]

Okay so I was going to do a video... Now I'm not. Well set out video and info. So I'll just link to yours lol... This is a well set out and good info. Have you thought about old tech and switch? I have new and old so I'm using commercial hardware and I have a server racks also. For storage and farming (and for those reading farming is not dirt but data crunching)

[@CinematixActionProd]

OVER 9000!!!!!!

[@TechchnologyGuru]

Surprised to see people still releasing videos on Corral. You know they have a few updates for 10.0.2 that bring it up to 10.0.4. I was running that for a bit and loving the docker deployment capability until i decided to get back on the stable. anyway, well done. I 'm actually looking to roll out a 10G network between my FreeNAS, ESXi, Main Computer, and probably my pfSense router. Still looking for a cost effective switch to backbone all of this through to allow them to all communicate without having to run many nics and cables between the devices effectively bringing star topography back. Also to make the graph more dramatic when freenas caches items reboot the server to clear the caches and it will store it in cache to provide the more dramatic effect you saw previously.

[@Taylordtech]

+Steven DeZalia I decided I'm holding on to Corral until 11 drops. I love my Docker containers too much

[@Taylordtech]

+Steven DeZalia forgot to add: I'm researching building a 10gb router using pfsense and Craigslist grade hardware. If I can find the right deal I should be able to do it for less than $200. Hope to do it in the next 2 months or so.

[@jolebole-yt]

I wish we could get the Coral GUI in FreeNAS 11...its so good. The beta GUI in 11 is still not there.. Hopefully soon.

[@Taylordtech]

+Goran Jordanov 11.1 can't come fast enough. I agree that the beta gui is lacking. Almost enough to make me roll back to Corral (almost)

[@Taylordtech]

+Goran Jordanov 11.1 can't come fast enough. I agree that the beta gui is lacking. Almost enough to make me roll back to Corral (almost)

[@liketruth8053]

Good to know about the Audio on blender I like blender too but its so problematic ! I am understanding that this FREENAS server is directly connected one mellanox to another. Im missing something because I need a server to share files to 4 computers. I am not understanding something about this video.

[@Taylordtech]

This video is for connecting two computers. If you have 4 computers to connect, you need a switch. Id check out my video on the Cisco N3k-C2048. Its the cheapest way to get 4 10gb ports on a single switch that Ive found: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2avXmRobJyFmqs

[@LokiDaFerret]

I like how you have your desktop setup

[@Taylordtech]

+LokiDaFerret thanks. I eventually want to free up more surface space by mounting the monitors, but I'm going to have to get something better than cheap Acer's before I do that

[@LokiDaFerret]

Taylord Tech. I was referring to you pc desktop and in particular the background image. I am a magnet to dark/black as well.

[@Taylordtech]

+LokiDaFerret oh yeah! I love that background. No idea where I picked it up but I've had it for a long time.

[@LokiDaFerret]

Taylord Tech if ya fell like sharing it, I'm here for you :) cipsis at gmail.com

[@LokiDaFerret]

Taylord Tech AWESOME thanx!!!!

[@WorBlux]

Next video - 40GBe infiniband Ring Network.

[@Taylordtech]

Dont tempt me... (actually infiniband is apparently hell to get working on Windows, so dunno if Ill try)

[@Narwaro]

Infiniband is crap for networking. Really. Infiniband is only worthwhile if you need low latencies and you do all networking by yourself (writing a network stack does that mean!!). So if you build a supercomputer Infiniband is cool for connection processing nodes. Not for servers. Not worth the hassle. ConnectX3 40Gb ETHERNET are around 60-70$ right now. Get a pair of those and some passive cables, much easier. Nothing beats ethernet for ... well, ethernet purposes.

[@Jormunguandr]

Home cluster :)

[@peterm303]

which cards are you using? are they working with Freenas?

[@Taylordtech]

For 10gbe or 40gb infiniband? For 10gb I'm using Melanox ConnectX2 cards and they work great. Not messed with infiniband.

[@floris2burn]

Why are these 10gbe nic's at least 200 eur each in europe? Shipping from us might be cheaper than whatever setup i can get here.

[@Taylordtech]

Dunno. Could be VAT, could be import restrictions from China (thats where mine shipped from). No clue really.

[@matttupper23]

If this video wasn't in HD, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was made in 1974 due to the colour palette.... #RetroCool :)

[@Taylordtech]

Haha! That wasnt the intent but glad you liked it.

[@nobearclaw7308]

I think Im missing something. When mapping the 10g drive vs the 1g drive...how do I determine the difference? I don't know how to map it to use the 10g line

[@Taylordtech]

So you should have set up the 10g NIC on the freenas end with a static IP. Then you can just type the IP in window explorer to get to the server on the 10gb line. For instance, my 1gb NIC on my freenas box has an IP of 192.168.1.132 and the 10gb NIC has an IP of 192.168.200.1. To make sure Im using the 10gb line, I use the 10gb NIC's IP.

[@nobearclaw7308]

Taylord Tech ya that's what I did. Apparently the freenas 11 side was having issues ....I'll look at it more Tonight

[@Taylordtech]

+nobearclaw hmm...only other thing I can think of is what we're you writing to/from? Can it handle the io?

[@nobearclaw7308]

Ahh i fixed it. Something with that freenas 11 was messed up. I booted up 9.10 and imported my volumes, set the static...and bam it worked. Thanks!

[@shawnamison2485]

What kind of drive are you using that you are getting that kind of io? Even my sata ssd is way slower!

[@Taylordtech]

The drive I was doing testing with? Its a RAM disk using Softperfect RAMDisk

[@shawnamison2485]

Taylord Tech I thought you said you had something else installed in a pci slot? NVME drive I think you said? The crystal disk window on the lower right. What's that device above your gpu? I'm just curious :)

[@Taylordtech]

+Shawn Amison oh yeah, it's an Intel 600p SSD. One of their earlier NVMe drives.

[@shawnamison2485]

Taylord Tech ah gotcha, thanks for the reply! Just found your channel randomly, lots of great content I'm seeing thanks for sharing! I just setup something similar recently using open media vault instead of freenas. Seems to run better requiring less RAM than freenas, although it has far fewer features, but for my home storage needs it works just fine and it does what I need it to on spare hardware I had laying around.

[@EmilePolka]

why dont you just run a iperf test first then do some real world test. but I assume that samba transfer will be slow though.

[@Taylordtech]

+remle ikawura iperf would be great for debugging if there were issues, but real world testing was all I really needed

[@EmilePolka]

testing the 10gig connection using iperf is much more simpler and fast, rather than watching the 5-6minutes speed test portion trying to test multiple instance.

[@gotkline946]

when you're in Internet protocol go to advance and change it from auto metric to a lower number than the 1gig line like the 10gig 10 and the 1gig 20

[@gotkline946]

windows will prefer the 10gig line this way when dealing with the nas

[@Taylordtech]

Appreciate the tip!

[@jlaroche0]

where did you get your background wallpaper?

[@Taylordtech]

+Jacques Laroche honestly I've been using it for like 5 years and I don't even know anymore. IIRC I did a gis for "fire and ice wallpaper" or something similar and found it that way

[@chrisvax7009]

ok one card goes to our pc and the second to our freenas box, i build a nas and i transfer files via wifi sure i need something like that

[@Taylordtech]

yeah wifi is going to be sloooooow. This would be a major upgrade.

[@mikkelgeorgsen]

Always test with a file about 2x of available RAM in source machine.

[@Taylordtech]

The server only has 8gb of RAM and never more than 1gb free at a time, so would I be right to assume a 4gb file load is large enough to exceed the available RAM?

[@mikkelgeorgsen]

Taylord Tech not really as in FreeBSD a lot of RAM is wired for cache, so you can't really say there is only 1GB free. To get more accurate information, use 2x of the total RAM, it just takes a little longer to test, but you stress it a lot more and get better data. On the other hand, it is pointless to test with that big a file unless your target machine is able to write 10Gbit+ as you might just run into the target machine being a bottleneck. If you have the option, make a 16GB RAM drive on the target machine to really test your NAS. Great video Btw, keep it up, perhaps do a video about upgrading Corral to FreeNAS 11 now that Corral has been 'retired'.

[@Taylordtech]

Ahh, ok, that makes sense. I do have an NVMe drive on my workstation, but its a first generation one from intel so its only marginally faster than my NAS. I only have 16gb of RAM in my workstation, so doing a RAM disk over about 10gb becomes difficult. Guess I have a good excuse for going with 32gb of RAM when I do my Ryzen upgrade later this year! Thanks for the info. I already did upgrade to 11, and did it the hard way (tried to do a straight upgrade and ended up having to clean-install 11). At this point it would be less of a how-to video and more of a cautionary tale!

[@mikkelgeorgsen]

Taylord Tech At least a 'full reinstall' is only a new USB stick when it's a FreeNAS :-D Just don't do as I did when I got my Ryzen, I thought I got a 2x16GB set but bought a 2x32GB set which is complete overkill for my usage, was easy to make RAM disks for testing though :-D And yes I saw a significant increase in throughput going from first gen nvme to latest Samsung, highly recommend.

[@Taylordtech]

The Samsung 960s are awful spendy though. Im looking into the MyDigitalSSD BPX line. They use a Phison PS5007 controller which is almost as good as Samsung's proprietary one. Probably going to get a 120gb one to stick in the NAS as a caching drive (along with more RAM) so I can test out how well they work before getting a large one for my workstation. My biggest frustration with having to clean install for 11 was actually the loss of my DNS server. I have some IOT things in the house and had all of their interfaces mapped out to domains for easy access. For some reason I just CANNOT get VMs to work in 11, so getting Zentyal back up and running hasnt happened yet. They show as running, but they never consume system resources and are not accessible. I only ever get to the point where the virtual NIC shows up on my router. VNC fails to connect and the VM never seems to actually start. Its about enough to drive me back to Corral!

[@ssnanda]

Can it be used for peer to peer between two windows servers?

[@Taylordtech]

It could, using samba file shares

[@ssnanda]

Taylord Tech thanks I bought m.ebay.com/itm/282378634053 thanks for the video I have a dell power edge R900 and T300(for storage)

[@Taylordtech]

That will do it for sure. Glad it helped.

[@ssnanda]

i got my card it's giving me burst of 300 MB/sec but then after few seconds it drops to 0 for few seconds, CPU on my T300 is going to 75% when data transfer is coming in. T300 is the destination. My source is PowerEdge R900 which has 4 x 6 Core CPU and this T300 has only one x Quad Core

[@Infidelitas]

informative

[@tombouie]

Thks

[@tomar5e115]

Will you still have access to other devices on the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet?

[@Taylordtech]

yes! I still had my standard ethernet cable plugged in so the 192.168.1.0/24 network was accessed by that NIC.

[@psycl0ptic]

GB or gb???

[@btudrus]

40gbe "pear-to-pear" is even cheaper

[@stanislovegun3239]

Спасибо!

[@RichMantaray]

i wouldn't recommend Ccleaner to any one, there's 50/50 chance it will delete a reg entry that windows needs and ul end up with blue screen of death, ,,,, if u dont want your comp to clog up then just format every 6 months or learn how to use a PC properly

[@SpaceCadet4Jesus]

Mantaray You may not like it, but its the best junk cleaner in its class. If you don't know how to use the registry cleaner properly, then don't use it. I've installed CCleaner on hundreds of PCs for the last 13 years and never once has a client FUBAR'd his computer. To be fair, I tell clients to start the program, hit Clean, Done! Using Ccleaner is far easier than rebuilding your computer too.

[@Fazal828]

I don't like CCleaner but you clearly don't know what you are talking about. Sure, you may have had that problem. That does not mean there is a 50% chance that can happen to everyone. If it is, you need to provide evidence based proof. If there is, no one would use ccleaner.

[@fedeMCTV]

"eth wallet" Lol

[@nynty5]

please redo in normal noncorral interface

[@Burnman83]

Mate, I appreciate when people are trying to review stuff and educate others with new ideas and tech, but... come on. Despite the fact your thumbnail says 10GB and the name of the video says 10gb, both are completely wrong. The correct unit is "Gb/s", and yes, this does matter, because the two others exist, but are something completely different. Please make sure when trying to spread knowledge to at least get the basics right to begin with =) This is not meant to be a toxic comment, but seeing how almost noone does take the time to get these things correct, which already lead to A LOT of newbies not even aware the way use it is wrong since they have seen it on KZbin... That is kinda worrying.