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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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.)