Thinking to change my DNS-320L to FreeNAS on Intel Atom D945GCLF2. How many MBps I will get?

[Glauber Furini]

Hi guys!

I have a DNS-320L DLINK ShareCenter (transfer files between 45-60MBps, on my gigalan) and yesterday I was wondering something better. So today I met the FreeNAS project, thanks for that! It´s a really nice system and I liked so much.

So today I installed the last FreeNAS 11 on C2D with 3 GB RAM, 320 GB SATA II HDD and 2GB SD card, is a DELL Inspiron notebook, but the 100 Mbps LAN is very lazy to transfer large files, works with 10 MB/s, worst than my DSN-320L. So I attached a USB 2.0 to Gigabit LAN converter, but with no better results, works with the same bandwidth 10 MBps. =(

I´d like to know if some one knows or how to calculate the transfer speed using a NAS on D945GCLF2 atom motherboard with Gigalan ethernet port and SATA II HDD? If will be better than DNS-320L I will change my NAS system to FreeNAS definitely.

I have 2 1TB 6GBps SATA HDD, but the D945GCLF2 has 2 SATA II 3GBps ports. Do will the ethernet gigalan the constraints or bottleneck of the system or will be the SATA II interface?

Thanks guys.

D945GCLF2 specs
https://ark.intel.com/products/42491/Intel-Desktop-Board-D945GCLF2

 

[m0nkey_]

I have 2 1TB 6GBps SATA HDD, but the D945GCLF2 has 2 SATA II 3GBps ports. Do will the ethernet gigalan the constraints or bottleneck of the system or will be the SATA II interface?

The whole board is a bottleneck. The max RAM it can take is 2GB and FreeNAS recommended minimum is 8GB RAM.

Read the hardware recommendations guide: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/hardware-recommendations-guide.12/

 

[Glauber Furini]

Thanks for your reply m()nkey. I read this guide earlier, but I was wondering if I could have at least 60MBps, like 320L adopting the most simple hardware possible, like that.

If I follow this hardware recommendations, I need to buy another computer with the same configuration as my primary computer, tha same I´m texting now (FX6100 + 8GBRAM).

This solution in my country it´s not economically worth. I'll need much money to buy and to pay the electricity bills, and this kind of hardware is really big to mount on the wall.

Thanks!

 

[danb35]

With less than 8 GB of RAM, you don't just lose performance, you lose stability and, potentially, data integrity. The minimum is 8 GB. If you can't use 8 GB, either get a different computer that can, or use a different OS.

 

[nojohnny101]

Given your case, you should look into alternative NAS software that requires less resources and has lower hardware minimums.

 

[Glauber Furini]

I see. Thank you guys. I'll look an alternative SO while save money to buy a god hardware.

 

[Evertb1]

I see. Thank you guys. I'll look an alternative SO while save money to buy a god hardware.

Look at OpenMediaVault. They are running it even on Raspberry PI. And there are several (Linux oriented) file systems available that are less demanding then ZFS. While in my opinion running a NAS on your hardware is not ideal -to say the least- I can see you have not much options at the moment. And with OpenMediaVault you can at least stay within the minimum requirements. Good luck to you.