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nickjames
May 13, 2017Luminary
Volume operations causing slowness across SMB
Greetings! I'm trying to understand the behavior that I'm experiencing, whether or not its expected and most importantly, how can I improve it. We are a graphic design shop. We use a lot of Adob...
jak0lantash
May 14, 2017Mentor
A lot of small files leads to a lot of "access". Two snapshots per day may lead to fragmentation, therefore even more access. You may want to look at a faster RAID level, such as RAID10, or SSDs. Also look at balance and defrag on your volume.
600 IOPS is significant on a RAID5 volume of 6 mechanical HDDs.
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