NAS Ranker: Is Class By Processor Useful?

[thiggins]

I need your feedback, folks!

The NAS Ranker currently classes products by processor class. The intent was to allow fair comparison by grouping similarly-performing products.

But is this the most useful way? Would it be better to class products by RAID level? Or # of bays/drives?

 

[stevech]

class by list price?

 

[NosniboR80]

Class by processor has been pretty confusing to me. For one thing, I found it confusing, because I didn't understand the breakdown. That is probably just my lack of knowledge though.

Secondly, it doesn't make it very easy to compare across processor types to see how much performance I need or want to buy.

Processor type probably isn't really that important when it comes down to it. Performance and price is what matters.


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[thiggins]

Thanks very much for your reply.

Does protection / RAID level come into it all?

 

[NosniboR80]

I think HDD bays would be helpful.

What I'd really like to see is performance/throughput with encryption and the same for when the NAS is performing other services, such as mail server, local cloud, etc.


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[thiggins]

Thanks again. I agree the additional tests would be useful but available time doesn't allow expanding the test us its significantly.

Throughout hit with encryption was significant on the few products I checked.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/31962-thecus-n7510-nas-server-reviewed?start=3

 

[digitalfreak]

I second ranking by price, and being able to filter by drive bays, etc. I doubt anyone is going to compare a $3k device with a $800 device when looking for what to buy.

 

[DaveS]

I need your feedback, folks!

The NAS Ranker currently classes products by processor class. The intent was to allow fair comparison by grouping similarly-performing products.

But is this the most useful way? Would it be better to class products by RAID level? Or # of bays/drives?

As a NAS noob, I didn't find it particularly useful. I think it's fair to rank their performance according to processor class, but as a "finder" it doesn't help me all that much. It would be much more useful to me to be able to filter based on the number of drive bays (I'm looking for 4-6) and price.

 

[NosniboR80]

Thanks again. I agree the additional tests would be useful but available time doesn't allow expanding the test us its significantly.

Throughout hit with encryption was significant on the few products I checked.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/31962-thecus-n7510-nas-server-reviewed?start=3

Some of these NASes are advertised as good for encryption (e.g. DS213+). So, that would be interesting. Ultimately, I decided on DIY, b/c I wanted a few things not on offer:

a) Good encryption performance (i.e. AES NI - CPU)
b) Ability to perform more than just NAS duties (Can an atom perform well while doing all of the other services advertised with their OSes while also performing en/decryption on the fly?)
c) Price/Expandability/Other classic reasons for DIY

 

[stevech]

Can't we begin to rely on encryption within the disk drive hardware?
If not, I'd prefer to do what I do now: virtual disk that's encrypted, stored on NAS. (SafeHome software). I don't use the NAS' encrypted folder ability because I take the file containing the virtual disk (800MB now), put that file on other media, including a USB thumb drive, so I have it when and where it's needed. Freeware SafeHome software is on the thumb drive too.

 

[TonyH]

[/QUOTE]Processor type probably isn't really that important when it comes down to it. Performance and price is what matters. [/QUOTE]

I strongly believe processor is a big factor in performance and price.

 

[NosniboR80]

I strongly believe processor is a big factor in performance and price.

Of course.

I'd just like to see all of these devices compared so that I can easily see how much better or worse performance is when changing CPU.