SOLVED: Slow transfer rates for specific smb shares

[pago]

Hello,

this problem occured with my amahi (6, ubuntu) system just out of nowhere last week. i have a greyhole storage pool with three 3 TB hdds and several smb shares. when transferring files to the largest share, the transfer rate wont go faster than 1 MB/s. Other shares in the same pool work just fine with rates of about 60 MB/s. a reboot didn't solve that problem. i suppose a hardware error can be excluded. do you have any ideas?

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[pago]

does anyone have an idea? the system is not usable for me now, i think otherwise im gonna give freenas a try

[bigfoot65]

I did hear one time that a user had a similar problem and it was a bad network card.

Have you checked the wiki, searched the forums, or checked the internet for help?

You could install Amahi 7. I can tell you from experience that it works quite nicely.

I have tried FreeNAS and had problems with it myself. If I had to choose something other than Amahi, I would go with OpenMediaVault. It's quite nice and everything is web UI driven, even adding hard drives and formatting them.

[pago]

thank you very much for your reply, also for suggesting omv, that looks nice too. i think im gonna install amahi 7 first. can i keep my ext4 formatted data disks or will i have to reformat them?

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[bigfoot65]

You can keep them as is. Remember to deselect or disconnect them before installing Amahi 7.

[pago]

thats good to know. at the moment i am still playing around with the old system, looking if my network card is broken. when running the command ifconfig, one line of eth:0 reads as following:

RX packets:19531058 errors:0 dropped:113329 overruns:0

is all those dropped packets a hint for a broken network card? it's a realtek onboard chip.

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[bigfoot65]

Hard to say. Try doing a ping google.com

[pago]

i have identified the problem - a broken wd red drive. when i put it in my synology nas, it slowed down the system the same way and the synology os told me, that the hdd is not working correctly. even after a reformat the problem persisted. a feature in amahi that tells you that the hdd is broken would be quite a nice idea, that would have saved me some hours of trouble shooting

[bigfoot65]

There is a script you can use that will help with this:
https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Disk_Error_Alerts

Recommend you submit a feture request in our bug tracker:
https://bugs.amahi.org