LaCie 5big NAS Pro Review - Part I
by Ganesh T S on January 7, 2013 7:00 PM EST- Posted in
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- NAS
- LaCie
Multi-Client Performance Benchmarks
We put the LaCie 5big NAS Pro through some IOMeter tests with a SMB share being accessed from up to 25 VMs simultaneously. The following four graphs show the total available bandwidth and the average response time while being subject to different types of workloads through IOMeter. IOMeter also reports various other metrics of interest such as maximum response time, read and write IOPS, separate read and write bandwidth figures etc. Selected metrics from the evaluation of the LaCie 5big NAS Pro are available here.
The graphs show that the performance tracks the Thecus N4800 in terms of how the NAS behaves as the number of users increase. However, the average and maximum response times as well as the bandwidth figures are better than those of the Thecus N4800. A caveat here is that the Thecus N4800 was tested with a different set of disks, We are currently repeating the benchmarks on the Thecus N4800 using the Western Digital 4TB enterprise drives and we will update the relevant graphs as soon as that gets done.
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klassobanieras - Thursday, January 31, 2013 - link
A personal bugbear I have with NAS reviews (one that is apparently shared by no-one else in the world): How about evaluating the reliability side of things in a bit more depth?What happens when you yank a disk in the middle of a metadata-heavy write?
What happens when you yank the power-cord in the middle of a metadata-heavy write?
What happens when an HDD in a RAID set is silently corrupted? (simulated by, say, mounting it under Linux and flipping some bits)
What happens if the box breaks and you want to get your data off the disks?
What's the underlying file-system?
Does it scrub the disks?
If I just wanted to know how friendly the GUI is, I'd be reading CNET ;)
me_too - Monday, February 18, 2013 - link
I'm very interested in this NAS and I would like to read as many previews as I can before it hits the stores here in The Netherlands. Thanks for Part I :-)me_too - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - link
More questions...Why does Lacies harddrive compatibilitiy list not have Western Digital RED series drives on it? I asked them about these drives and the 5Big NAS Pro and they said they can only guarantee listed harddrives to work properly, they could not tell if they tested these drives at all.
Strangly the WD GREEN drives are listed, but online I keep reading about many problems with these drives in a NAS due to acessive head parking. Will this not be the case when used in a 5Big NAS Pro?
When can we expect Part II of the review? :-)
NVISION - Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - link
Only if there would Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 interface connectivity, along with RAID10 - it would be perfect. For my use anyways :)If there would be Thunderbolt connectivity and ability to that interface use most of the systems resources, this product would suite the needs of both high performance users as well as an NAS solution.
RAID10 would be great, also on marketing viewpoint as many users prefer RAID10 over RAID6 or at least would like to have that as an option.
ejunyhu - Monday, March 11, 2013 - link
what is the vga port for? can you connect a monitor and get config&monitoring display?bobasaur - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - link
I read elsewhere that the VGA port is for seeing boot up sequence & settings, useful during disaster recovery.bobasaur - Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - link
can't wait for part 2!xpro - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - link
I've been holding my breath, I look like a smurf.bobasaur - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - link
I'm an honorary smurf now tooBob38489 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - link
With regards to the choice of drives, what drives are reliable? It seems many internal drive reviews on amazon report having multiple drives bought in one go fail on their nas. This shows up under the one star ratings for the seagate barracuda, wd red green and black. Why such high failure rates?Is there a good drive to use on a nas, without going for the WD RE Enterprise drive? I don't really need too much performance, just high reliability for moderate cost.