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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IOMeter Results
The results above from IOMeter’s 2004-07-30 build show the NV’s improvement in performance over the last generation ReadyNAS device. Though the performance has increased in all areas all around, the greatest improvement is seen in the Buffered Write numbers at an average increase of 7MB/sec.
IOMeter (2004-07-30) Results | ||||
ReadyNAS NV | ReadyNAS X6 | Seagate 250GB 7200.9 RAID 5 | ||
File System Benchmarks | ||||
Total IO/sec | 28 | 24 | 60 | |
Total MB/sec | 47 | 46 | 226 | |
Sequential Read (MB/sec) | 33 | 29 | 66 | |
Random Read (MB/sec) | 23 | 21 | 55 | |
Buffered Write (MB/sec) | 32 | 25 | 106 | |
Sequential Write (MB/sec) | 21 | 17 | 64 | |
Random Write (MB/sec) | 21 | 17 | 42 | |
Average Access Time (ms) | 13 | 9 | 3 | |
Network Benchmark | ||||
LAN Bandwidth (MB/sec) | 24.36 | 22.48 | NA |
The results above from IOMeter’s 2004-07-30 build show the NV’s improvement in performance over the last generation ReadyNAS device. Though the performance has increased in all areas all around, the greatest improvement is seen in the Buffered Write numbers at an average increase of 7MB/sec.
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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.)