Infrant Technologies’ ReadyNAS NV: Enterprise Features, Desktop Footprint
by Purav Sanghani on March 17, 2006 11:42 AM EST- Posted in
- Storage
The Test
Network attached storage devices carry a lot more burden as opposed to external hard disk drives due to the nature of their uses in multi-user environments. We have included our usual File System Performance benchmarks, but have also added some IO tests to simulate multi-user scenarios.
The ReadyNAS devices are directly connected to our test system’s Intel Pro/1000 MT interface during our benchmarking process using the CAT5 cable provided by Infrant Technologies. The Seagate RAID 5 array is built using the same four Seagate drives that come with the 1TB ReadyNAS NV.
Our test methods are as follows:
Network attached storage devices carry a lot more burden as opposed to external hard disk drives due to the nature of their uses in multi-user environments. We have included our usual File System Performance benchmarks, but have also added some IO tests to simulate multi-user scenarios.
| Infrant Technologies ReadyNAS NV Test Bed | |
| Processor: | AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, Socket 939) |
| Motherboard/Chipset Drivers: | Giga-Byte GA-K8NXP-SLI nForce4 (v6.66) |
| Hard Disk Drives: | Western Digital WD1600JS |
| RAM: | 1GB Corsair XMS4400 DDR2 (2x512MB) |
| Video Card: | ATI Radeon X300, Fanless |
| Network Interface Card: | Intel Pro/1000 MT 10/100/1000Mbit w/Jumbo Frames = 9014bytes |
The ReadyNAS devices are directly connected to our test system’s Intel Pro/1000 MT interface during our benchmarking process using the CAT5 cable provided by Infrant Technologies. The Seagate RAID 5 array is built using the same four Seagate drives that come with the 1TB ReadyNAS NV.
Our test methods are as follows:
| AnandTech NAS Device Benchmarks | |
| File System Performance | File Copy - We copy a single 300MB file and three hundred 1MB files to and from the device and measure the time of each run |
| SiSoft Sandra | File System - Measures various read/write operations Network/LAN Bandwidth - Measures achievable network bandwidth |
| IOZone | Measures file transfer rates for various file size and transfer size combinations and reports write and read results |
| Iometer - 2004-07-30 | Tests data throughput |
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Iozone - Thursday, May 11, 2006 - link
There is a bad link in the article:http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/infant...">http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/infant...
File does not exist ...
Any chance of getting the link fixed ?
dunnp - Saturday, March 18, 2006 - link
So since the RAID performance was so good, what was the setup for the RAID?byvis - Saturday, March 18, 2006 - link
...s939 has DDR2? :-)RAM: 1GB Corsair XMS4400 DDR2 (2x512MB)
WileCoyote - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
What brand/model Raid 5 controller was used with the Seagate drives?randomlinh - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
could you imagine backing up that much data... oi...Genx87 - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
Did you put any memory into this thing or just use the basic 64MB for the OS?Curious if you didnt, if the performance throughput would increase from a larger memory?
PuravSanghani - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
The ReadyNAS units come with a 256MB SO-DIMM module. However, transfer performance would be limited by the the NIC anyway.Purav
WileCoyote - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
was journaling turned off? I've heard that has a big impact on performanceGenx87 - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
Any chance they are planning on releasing an 8 part config?Read\write wasnt terribly impressive at 24MB\sec. That is hardly pushing the disks.
But for what i need it for that is plenty. But the 4 disk limitation kind of turns me off.
WileCoyote - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
Doesn't look like they have plans for 8 drives - they seem more interested in downsizing and compacting. There is a lot of info in their forums. At first I was turned off by the 4 drive config but then I realized it would work since I could hotswap.