Post your performance results

espringer92 wrote:

I hate to reveal myself as a newbee, but that's what I am, at least when it comes to NAS. The IO tests for this "Post your performance results" forum topic were done in ~2006. I wonder if anything about ReadyNAS NV+ has changed since then to improve the read/write scores? Now here's where I really show my green colors. If one is getting scores like the test results of 16/16 read/write, does that translate into a real user performance that is even slower than having an external hard drive connected by USB2 or Firewire? My ethernet and router operate at 100 mbps, but I suppose that's not going to be of any use if the storage system is operating at 16 mbps. I'm looking at purchasing a NV+ 4410, or maybe waiting for the Pro model coming soon. Speed is important, at least to do better than my three external WD 500 gigabyte drives connected via USB2. I have ~ 1 terabyte of digital images that I need to protect, and the storage size keeps getting larger. With increasing frequency I am saving or retrieving thousands images at a time at 6+ mbytes per file into/from storage. As a general rule, I avoid working with other programs while transferring images from my computer hard drive to storage, so I want to minimize my wait time. Tell me please, have the read/write speeds with the NV+ systems improved since 2006? If not, I am wondering if the Pro model will be much better? A Netgear tech told me on the phone yesterday the read/write is much faster for the Pro model. Afterwards I wondered if those scores came from a system using Raid 0 or Raid 5? Thanks