Hi all,
So I have a a custom truenas NAS with three 8tb disks in Raid-z. When it works, it works very well. I have a windows laptop so I’m using the fastest adapter I could find (QNAP 5gbe) which despite because 5gig actually maxes out at around 3.5gbe. Which is fine for me. Most of what I’m doing is moving around large video files for my small business.
When it works, it will hit the 3.5gbe sustained and complete the job without issue.
When it doesn’t work, accessing the file share through explorer becomes laggy (blue loading cursor appears when clicking into a folder, etc) and the transfer speed will go from max 3.5gbe all the way down to zero. Like a rollercoaster.
At first I thought it was the adapter malfunctioning, but I switched to using the inbuilt 1gbe adapter on my laptop and it does exactly the same thing, going from the peak of 1gbe down to zero.
I’ve attached an image of a recent transfer from the inbuilt adapter to give you an idea of the instability of transfer speed.
It’s very strange and nothing in particular seems to trigger the works fine / serious instability switch. If anyone has any ideas / suggestions would be much appreciated!
