Well, I put three drives in RAID5, and when I tried writing to it, there were no more errors to be found.
However, the transfer was still painfully slow with the same network spikes that occurred before.
Just for the heck of it, I opened up a command window and started a continuous ping to the snap. With the RAID5, the pings ranged from 10ms to 49ms...on my LAN!
With the continuous ping still going, I deleted the RAID5. The instant I did that, the ping dropped to <1ms, where it should be, and has been staying there for the last five minutes.
So, no errors in log(in fact, no nothing in logs except when it says I've connected to the share) and RAID5 = crap network speeds. All other things the same minus the RAID5, network speeds awesome.
Before I tried this, I spent all day trying every possible network config.
Also, I bumped up the RAM to 1 gig.
blah.....
