I have my ZFS storage system up and running and now I am going to put it to use for backing up my machines.
My plan is to use FreeBSD 12.1 installed onto a USB stick and copy over NFS to my storage machine.
I bought several USB sticks as I have some machines UEFI and some Legacy installs and planned on using 2 sticks.
One UEFI and one for Legacy machines. I don't want to mess around with the BIOS.
What I have found was surprising.
I started with my UEFI machines so I made a UEFI FreeBSD install onto the USB stick using GPT.
The install took a real long time and loading my preferred packages onto it took almost 20 hours.
It seems to lag quite a bit so I did a quick speed check with
That seemed appropriate as these are 16GB USB2 disks and that speed is normal.
So then I made a Legacy BIOS installation onto the same exact type USB stick with GPT and it too was slow.
Packages took around the same time and the speedtest showed similar numbers.
So frustrated, I decided to re-do my Legacy stick with a MBR install and it only took 8 hours to load all my packages.
Speedtest shows 25Mb/sec but the system also feel less laggy.
Can anyone shed some light on this? Maybe I need to align the sectors on a GPT install or something.
My plan is to use FreeBSD 12.1 installed onto a USB stick and copy over NFS to my storage machine.
I bought several USB sticks as I have some machines UEFI and some Legacy installs and planned on using 2 sticks.
One UEFI and one for Legacy machines. I don't want to mess around with the BIOS.
What I have found was surprising.
I started with my UEFI machines so I made a UEFI FreeBSD install onto the USB stick using GPT.
The install took a real long time and loading my preferred packages onto it took almost 20 hours.
It seems to lag quite a bit so I did a quick speed check with
diskinfo -t /dev/da0
and it showed 25Mb/sec.That seemed appropriate as these are 16GB USB2 disks and that speed is normal.
So then I made a Legacy BIOS installation onto the same exact type USB stick with GPT and it too was slow.
Packages took around the same time and the speedtest showed similar numbers.
So frustrated, I decided to re-do my Legacy stick with a MBR install and it only took 8 hours to load all my packages.
Speedtest shows 25Mb/sec but the system also feel less laggy.
Can anyone shed some light on this? Maybe I need to align the sectors on a GPT install or something.