WD Red Pro 6 TB Review - High Performance NAS HDD Gets a Capacity Bump
by Ganesh T S on September 7, 2015 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- Western Digital
Single Client Access - NAS Benchmarks
Evaluation of single client performance in a networked environment was done by configuring three drives in RAID-5 in the QNAP TS-EC1279U-SAS-RP unit. Two of the network links were bonded (configured with 802.3ad LACP). Our usual Intel NASPT / robocopy benchmarks were processed from a virtual machine in our NAS testbed. The results are presented in the graphs below.
For almost all workloads, there is no discernible difference between the performance of various drives, indicating that it is the network acting as a bottleneck for single client access. Even when there are differences, it shows that certain drives are better suited for a particular type of workload compared to others. Differences start to appear when there are multiple clients accessing the NAS.
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Impulses - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
My 75GB 75GXP failed slowly, I dunno if it was related to the main source of failure everyone was seeing... It made for some interesting surprises, like waking up to an empty Desktop because the directory had been mysteriously renamed Desotop (amazingly everything within was intact).MHz Tweaker - Wednesday, September 9, 2015 - link
Yes, I think I remember those GXP-Deathstars "click click clickety click"Samus - Monday, September 7, 2015 - link
I prefer HGST drives, but really just the older ones like the 2TB and 3TB 5400RPM Deskstar Coolspins. They were nearly as fast as most 7200RPM drives of the day.The He6 is just too expensive, although they seem to be very reliable and that was the real concern at the beginning for that technology.
And until recently, Hitachi/HGST didn't have a 6TB non-Helium model available. They are clearly behind Seagate and WD on density, but ahead of them on reliability. Sometimes keeping it old-school is the best path. Look at Mazda with Skyactive. No turbo charging, no fancy dual-clutch or CVT transmissions, just a modern lightweight engine with as much friction removed as possible mated to a tweaked slushbox and it still beats every single competitor in fuel economy, aside from Hybrids, while also being among the few vehicles manufactures that have not had transmission or engine related recalls.
Adul - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
Not to mention taht they are great to drive cards :)Adul - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
Cars! should not reply from phone.yeeeeman - Monday, September 7, 2015 - link
When do these ancient objects go extinct? And why didn't you include at least an ssd for comparison?damianrobertjones - Monday, September 7, 2015 - link
When you and I can afford to buy a 6TB SSD version. That probably means when we're dead.FunBunny2 - Monday, September 7, 2015 - link
I wonder if it's possible to stuff 6TB of NAND, at any node size, into 2.5" form factor?KateH - Monday, September 7, 2015 - link
Yes.http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/samsung-unv...
FunBunny2 - Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - link
Zoweeeeee.