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These NASes have so many features, it's not feasible to review them all. Even if we took a shot at it, you have your list of things you'd like to see, others may have a different list.
Sorry to disappoint you. But you'll have to look elsewhere for the type of NAS review you seek. We can no longer afford to produce them.
I used 6 x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf NAS hard drives in RAID10 for fastest performance.
However, even I am unable to get more than 400 MBPS (3.2 Gbps) read and write speeds. My PC has 512 GB Samsung 960 PRO m.2 drive on which I carried the tests to eliminate speed bottlenecks.
Is the speed I am getting correct or I need to do some twerking?
I expected transfer speeds between 500 and 600 MBPS.
$ hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 2746 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1372.57 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1534 MB in 3.00 seconds = 510.84 MB/sec
$ hdparm -Tt /dev/mapper/cachedev1
/dev/mapper/cachedev1:
Timing cached reads: 7264 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3632.48 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1136 MB in 3.00 seconds = 378.51 MB/sec
The NAS itself is good, however the back cover which you remove to install PCI card is made of terrible terrible plastic. It has thin screw holder arches which break off at the neck. In first attempt of opening, 3/4 arches broke off. So I wont be able to screw and tighten the black cover ever. QNAP has recognised the issue as bad production batch and has asked me to RMA the whole enclosure back to Taiwan. That’s ridiculous and I will continue to use the back cover in broken state. I would have appreciated they sending me just the back cover from new production batch to my address.
All good points. Any fault lies with me, not Craig. He produced the review I asked him to write, which was to focus on performance.
These NASes have so many features, it's not feasible to review them all. Even if we took a shot at it, you have your list of things you'd like to see, others may have a different list.
Sorry to disappoint you. But you'll have to look elsewhere for the type of NAS review you seek. We can no longer afford to produce them.
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