NAS at 10GbE Speeds: QNAP TS-879 Pro & Synology DS3612xs Review

[Julio Franco]

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[Leeky]

Really nice review Steven.

That's some impressive results, even connected to a 1GB Ethernet network.

 

[Guest]

What switch did you use to test the 10ge throughput? I have been looking for a decent 10 gig ethernet switch and they are all $10k and above.

 

[Guest]

I would like to ask about RAID 5 and RAID 0. RAID 5 is usually on par with RAID 0 during reads, but on writes there should be a significant slowdown. Now, when using enterprise RAID cards that isn't the case because the parity is calculated on a chip dedicated to this. I assume the Synology is using linux software RAID 5 - no dedicated card - so why is it so fast? Perhaps the processor is totally dedicated to this and is up to the task?

Based on most/all previous testing I've seen on RAID 5 I would basically never implement linux software RAID5 for critical storage/applications, but would have no problems doing it based on the numbers here!

 

[Guest]

Prices for 10G switches drops last year.
For example, Cisco SG500X with 4 10G ports cost around $1000.
Equal Zyxel switch cost even less.