![]() This is on a Xeon E3-1240V3 so there’s plenty of CPU power, Samba on FreeNAS just can’t keep up. I tried changing the FreeNAS protocol to SMB2, and even SMB1 but couldn’t get past 99MBps. ![]() I suspect this is because OmniOS runs NFS SMB at the kernel level and FreeNAS runs it in user space. OmniOS is slightly faster, writing a large file over my LAN gets around 115MBps vs 98MBps on FreeNAS. FreeNAS can function as an Active Directory Domain Controller. CIFS / SMB Performance for Windows SharesįreeNAS has a newer implementation of SMB, supporting SMB3, I think OmniOS is at SMB1. I am also testing FreeNAS and may consider a switch at some point. Update: : After a lot of testing ZnapZend ended up not working for me, this is not it’s fault, but because I have limited and bandwidth, the snapshots don’t catch up and it gets further and further behind so for now I’m continuing with Crashplan on OmniOS. ![]() But after running FreeNAS for a few months here are my thoughts on both platforms and their strengths and weaknesses as a ZFS storage server. After testing it out for a while I will likely stay on OmniOS since it suits my needs better and instead switch out CrashPlan for ZnapZend for my backup solution. I looked at FreeNAS because it has a CrashPlan plugin that runs in a jail using Linux emulation. Lately I started testing FreeNAS, what drove me to do this is I use CrashPlan to backup my pool but recently Code 42 announced they’ll be discontinuing Solaris support for Crashplan so I needed to look for an alternative OS or an alternative backup solution. I’ve been using OpenIndiana since late 2011 and switched to OmniOS in 2013. : I’ve updated this post to to reflect changes in FreeNAS 9.3.
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