Recent content by Butzi

Amazing NAS Progress Dennis, I'm looking forward to your testing. The integration of 10GbE has changed the NAS landscape quite a bit, along with all the other enabling pieces you mentioned. I'm going to be doing some preliminary testing on the new SSD cache feature, using a TS-870...

Even simpler I bet if we did a survey and asked people if they had spare, identical drives sitting on the shelf for their NAS, in case of drive failure, at least 25% would have to say NO.

RAID 6 will give you better availability, in case of drive failure(s) in the NAS. Remember, if one drive in a RAID 5 array fails, all of a sudden the array is now operating as RAID 0. Scary thought, especially when you replace the bad drive and push the NAS to harsh duty during the rebuild...

Has anyone tried the new SSD cache feature that was rolled out with QTS 4.0? 1. How did it work for you? 2. What SSD drives did you use? TIA, Butzi

I have one Hi Steve, Like Tim, I was very impressed by the throughput of the N2310. It smokes the Marvell-based models, IMHO. Yet, as you point out, it is light on features. That's OK by me, personally I don't use a tenth of the features that are available on my QNAP.

Anyone have experience benchmarking 10GbE switches? I'm having trouble finding a test program/suite that can handle 10GbE bandwidth. Most of them are under-reporting. TIA.