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That sounds fscinating! I'd love to read about your NAS project, I think one of these days I'll get around to building one too! Let me know if you post any more info. A friend also has the Dell PERC on his home server and it is performing amazingly well from what he tells me. At the...

Thanks for posting your benchmarks handruin! :) These are very good results for the 5400rpm drives - of course the 7200rpm drives is even better (in fact it looks to be the top performer in its class). If only they made it in 1.5TB... Your RAID results confuse the heck out of me :eek: I...

Yes, I'm not surprised by those results - the seagate enterprise drives are likely to be both faster and heavily optimized for I/O, while the previous generation WD GP drives were only good at throughput and not fantastic at that. So depending on Dennis' usage pattern, differences could be...

Hi, those articles look fascinating, I'll be spending some time studying those! I'm planning to use either 4 or 5 drives in the NAS, if I go for 5, I have the option of either RAID 5+hot spare or RAID 6. The NAS is expandable to 10 drives, so based on what you said, RAID 6 is an attractive...

@handruin Thanks a lot for your info - you've almost made up my mind for me - your other post was in response to one my threads too :D and I'm keen to see your benchmarks from the F2's especially!

@All I feel dumb for not putting all this info you pointed out in my original post!:o The disks are for a BYOD NAS (synology DS1010+), most likely in RAID 5, maybe RAID 6 array. Not decided yet as I'm not very familiar with RAID 6 and its performance. All disks are from the Hardware...

Planning the disks to be used in a new 5 bay NAS and I have narrowed it down to 2 very similar drives - the main difference (and its a small one) is that one is more optimized for throughput i.e. sequential reads/writes but has slightly lower access times and i/o performance while the other is...

What I meant in my previous post is that since speeds from the velociraptor shot up while speeds between the other drives stayed at ~40-60MB/s, it must mean that the speeds are real and not due to caching, or it would apply to all the drives, not just the fast one.... Though it occurs to me...

Hi Tim, well you're more knowledgeable than me in this, but I'm surprised. Here's what's leading me to think otherwise: For a while my Velociraptor ran in Multiword DMA 2, while the rest of my drives were UDMA5. The drive to drive performance was about 40-60 MB/s. The problem was an...

Really? That's kind of surprising I often see ~100MB/s disk to disk transfers inside windows from my velociraptor to a caviar black drive and back. 60MB/s is common. I don't understand I wouldn't get it over the network (although I haven't tested the disk to disk transfers for cache effects)....

Hi to all, I'm in the process of upgrading from an intel SS4200-E NAS to a Synology DS1010+, mainly for the improved expandability and performance. I'm selecting hard drives as I expect the system to be delivered in a week. :cool: I'm torn between "Green" drives like the the Samsung...

I will need to experiment a bit with it - the NAS had instructions on mounting the NFS shares but they didn't work for me, which is why I wondered if I needed to run an NFS server, in order to supply the login credentials with which windows will access the NFS shares. Can anyone advise if...

Hi, I'm thinking about setting up NFS to access my SS4200-E NAS from my windows PC's. It works fine with SMB but I thought I would try NFS for any possible performance benefits. The latest release of the SS4200-E OS (a custom linux flavor) supports NFS, however once activating it I cannot...

Interesting that your memory upgrade did have any benefits, though your results were pretty impressive to begin with. I read that the RAM can be upgraded to 1GB, so perhaps this may have something to do with it? Personally I can't be bothered especially if the benefit is so limited. Of course...

OK, I found the reseller threads where the issues of customization are discussed, but for the intel packaged model I think only some apply. There are issues with customization and installing WHS etc. However I saw no issues relating to data loss which would be the key concern. Am I wrong? So...