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cpitchford
May 22, 2009Guide
More on CPU specs of the ReadyNAS Pro
Hi all, Does anyone know what FSB speeds the ReadyNAS Pro motherboard supports. I have three "servers" that I'm trying to consolidate. I figured that the file server (which is actually the slowe...
fastfwd
Mar 06, 2013Virtuoso
dsm1212 wrote:
fastfwd wrote: The "-T" test reads from the portion of your main RAM that Linux uses as a disk buffer; it just tests how fast Linux's disk-cache algorithm running on your CPU can read data from your RAM. The drive isn't even accessed during the timed portion of the test, so nothing about the drive's performance -- including the size of the drive's onboard cache -- should affect the result of the "-T" cached-read test.
Well 4 drives should do a little better than 3 and one of my drives is a cool model (an odd 5900rpm I believe), but it seems hard to believe that is all of the difference.
Right, your drive performance is none of the difference in the -T cached-read test, since that test only measures the speed at which data travels between the NAS's RAM and the NAS's CPU.
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