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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Iozone - Thursday, May 11, 2006 - link
There is a bad link in the article:http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/infant...">http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/infant...
File does not exist ...
Any chance of getting the link fixed ?
dunnp - Saturday, March 18, 2006 - link
So since the RAID performance was so good, what was the setup for the RAID?byvis - Saturday, March 18, 2006 - link
...s939 has DDR2? :-)RAM: 1GB Corsair XMS4400 DDR2 (2x512MB)
WileCoyote - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
What brand/model Raid 5 controller was used with the Seagate drives?randomlinh - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
could you imagine backing up that much data... oi...Genx87 - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
Did you put any memory into this thing or just use the basic 64MB for the OS?Curious if you didnt, if the performance throughput would increase from a larger memory?
PuravSanghani - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
The ReadyNAS units come with a 256MB SO-DIMM module. However, transfer performance would be limited by the the NIC anyway.Purav
WileCoyote - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
was journaling turned off? I've heard that has a big impact on performanceGenx87 - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
Any chance they are planning on releasing an 8 part config?Read\write wasnt terribly impressive at 24MB\sec. That is hardly pushing the disks.
But for what i need it for that is plenty. But the 4 disk limitation kind of turns me off.
WileCoyote - Friday, March 17, 2006 - link
Doesn't look like they have plans for 8 drives - they seem more interested in downsizing and compacting. There is a lot of info in their forums. At first I was turned off by the 4 drive config but then I realized it would work since I could hotswap.