I have been testing out the DSS live cd and have found the iSCSI preformance to be lower than that of the SMB NAS... How can this be? I have tried several diffrent configurations for the iSCSI dameon options but found the defaults provide the best preformance. I am running the software on a P4 Dual Core 2.8Ghz with 2GB of DDR2 and a Perc3 SCSI Raid controler with a Broadcomm 10/100 nic (running at 100mbit.) On a RAID 0 array i am seeing about 6MB/s with the iometer software doing 512k operations with a 50/50 split on random/seq. and read/write. Not terrible. But when running a file copy test of 3 iso files totaling 1.77GB the copy time averages out to 10:00 min. to the iSCSI target and somewhere around 7:00 for the SMB share. Someone please help me understand why I am seeing better preformance off the SMB than i am off of iSCSI.

Thanks