Trying to put together a file server/NAS solution for a small business

:sweat:

Tuning is often evil and should rarely be done.

Just looking at the stuff in your sig, you've got 32GB of RAM. Just like the FreeNAS manual says, if ZFS is slow the single best way to increase performance is to add more RAM. That is, and will always be true, until you get to stupidly expensive quantities of RAM.