Infrant Technologies’ ReadyNAS NV: Enterprise Features, Desktop Footprint
by Purav Sanghani on March 17, 2006 11:42 AM EST- Posted in
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Real World Tests – File System Performance
For our Real World File System Performance tests, we have taken the original tests and tailored them for external drives. More specifically, instead of just measuring the time that it takes to copy, zip, and unzip within the same drive, we measure the time that it takes to perform these tasks from a SATA drive to the external device.
File Copy Operations
The results show a substantial performance increase on the NV over the X6 ReadyNAS device in the File Copy tests to and from the devices.
For our Real World File System Performance tests, we have taken the original tests and tailored them for external drives. More specifically, instead of just measuring the time that it takes to copy, zip, and unzip within the same drive, we measure the time that it takes to perform these tasks from a SATA drive to the external device.
File Copy Operations
| File Copy - One 300MB File, seconds, lower is better | |||
| To NAS | From NAS | ||
| ReadyNAS NV | 13.621 | 8.636 | |
| ReadyNAS X6 | 21.422 | 10.042 | |
| Seagate 250GB 7200.9 RAID 5 | 4.750 | 5.672 | |
| File Copy - Three Hundred 1MB Files, seconds, lower is better | |||
| To NAS | From NAS | ||
| ReadyNAS NV | 19.102 | 13.562 | |
| ReadyNAS X6 | 36.844 | 14.573 | |
| Seagate 250GB 7200.9 RAID 5 | 7.465 | 6.709 | |
The results show a substantial performance increase on the NV over the X6 ReadyNAS device in the File Copy tests to and from the devices.
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MikeRocker - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
Sorry, couldn't resist the joke. ;-) Maybe 'perforated' is a more accurate description.Nice piece of kit, though it gets owned by the RAID performance-wise. How much is that actually down to the network interface? Pity its so expensive too.
brownba - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
ehhh, looks like a space heater to melatrosicarius - Monday, March 20, 2006 - link
I bought one about a month ago. It's good b/c it has RAID-5 on a Gigabit connection. It's small and looks awesome, but the fan is loud as s***. It's basically a micro Linux box.Anyway, I use it as a BACKUP only, b/c it doesn't have a "real" CPU or Mobo and is a tad slow to work from directly. For my Server, I use a real PC with four identical slave drives, also in RAID-5, so the backup can be 1:1. I wish it had RAID-6 b/c my Arcea 1210 RAID controller card in my server has the possibility of RAID-6.
Just FYI, four 300GB Maxtor MaxLineIII 7200RPM SATA drives do work great, even tho they are not listed on the Infrant HW compatability page. It will give you a 1.2TB array (1200GB) of total space if you stripe the 4 drives (RAID-0), and Will give you around 850GB if you use RAID-5 (one quarter of each drive is reserved to cache a third of each other drive so one drive can fail without any data loss.)