I've been using ZFS in FreeNas, and have been pretty happy with it's support; I've tried that and marking drives as an iSCSI target, which seems to be the fastest option, but not always the easiest, though Windows7 seems to click with it quickly enough.
CW -----Original message----- From: "Greg Sevart" [email protected] Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:25:38 -0700 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Network Storage > I never got much benefit from jumbo frames either. With SMB2 in Windows 6, > however, I always get >110MB/s if the disks on both sides can handle it. I > was about to build a NAS solution using FreeNAS or OpenFiler with an older > box and some spare drives (X2 4400+ and 9x 250GB WD PATA disks), but decided > to wait until Samba supports SMB2. ZFS would be nice too... > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight > > Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 5:51 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [H] Network Storage > > > > At 01:53 PM 4/4/2009, you wrote: > > >You might want to check that the gigabit switch that you got supports > > jumbo > > >frames as that can speed PC-to-PC transfers by a lot (WinXP and other > > OSes > > >should just default support > > >it); BINO > > > > You often have to turn Jumbo Frames on, in the NIC driver in order to > > use it. This is particularly true with older boards and NICs. Go to > > device manager, your NIC >>> Properties Advanced settings. And you > > have to know what Jumbo Frame setting your switch will accommodate. > > Also both NICs and the switch must support Jumbo frames in order to > > support it. I played around with this a lot when I first got my SMC > > GB switch back in 2004, a good one, rack mount that is still > > available, and although there has been a lot of hoopla about Jumbo > > Frames lately I was never able to realize any significant improvement > > in transfer speeds between two boards with Intel GB NICs transferring > > large video ISO files. > > > > >
