Post your performance results

Hi Chirpa!

My results with terracopy 1.22:

ReadyNAS to PC (Read): 15MB/s (hasn't change)
Pc to ReadyNAS (Write): 35MB/s (about 9-10MB/s better)
PC to ReadyNAS (Write - test): 19-20MB/s

I hope this write speed won't kill my ReadyNAS HDDs. :-)

I experienced that, if i increased the buffer size above 256k, the copy speed decreased by some MB/s.
I think if the CRC source equals with the target one, it will be a good tool.

Laci

Can anyone tell me if these sound good? This test was run from my Mac. I'll test again from one of my XP machines later on.

Computer: PowerMac G4 - 867MHz Dual Proc, 768 MB memory

NV+, Firmware: RAIDiator 4.01c1-p1 [1.00a041]
1000 Mbit / Full-Duplex
X-RAID,3 Disks
1. WDC 250GB 7200rpm
2. Samsung 500GB 7200rpm
3. Samsung 500GB 7200rpm

Full Data Journaling: Off
Journaling: Off
Optimize for OS X: On
Enable fast CIFS writes: On

Copied a 3.8GB file from PowerMac to NV+ over AFP in 4:56
Write: 12.83MB/s
Copied a 3.8GB file from NV+ to PowerMac over AFP in 2:07
Read: 29.92MB/s

I've just upgraded to Seagate 1TB drives, and took a performance snapshot before/after. I also took the opportunity to fit 1GB RAM to my X6 Rev A.
Here are my results using IOmeter, with the 256KB Sequential Read, and 256KB Sequential write pattern.

Seagate ST3500630AS x4 X-Raid - 512MB RAM
Sequential Read 28.4MB/s - 113.6 IOPS
Sequential Write 18.2MB/s - 72.9 IOPS
X-Raid internal sync speed ~ 52MB/s

Seagate ST31000340AS x4 X-Raid - 1GB RAM
Sequential Read 34.9MB/s - 139.6 IOPS
Sequential Write 21.3MB/s - 85.4 IOPS
X-Raid internal sync speed ~62MB/s

All results from a Shuttle SN45G with RTL8169 NIC (see sig) running Windows XP SP2.

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

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

Please be aware that this thread is just for posting your results. If you have questions, please create a new thread. 8)

espringer92 wrote:
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

As yoh-dah mentioned, please start another thread so that this one can be kept on topic (and then we can all start drooling over the Pro's performance! :) ). In the meantime, here's some stuff to look at:

Performance rates for NV+ can be found here:
http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=193 (scroll down to "Performance Section")

Performance rates for Duo can be found here:
http://www.readynas.com/?p=177

No definitive benchmarks for the Pro have been posted yet, except for this:

Hey,

I did some tests today and:

I've started with 2x500GB drives and the content that has been stored then I can copy Nas->PC using TeraCopy is around 20ish MB/s.

But then I expanded to 4x1TB and now using TeraCopy I have
25 MB/s write (PC->Nas)
38 MB/s read (Nas->PC)

Very very happy with performance. Journaling disabled.

Hibbaraniec!

Could you tell me more details about you test? (old HDD, new HDD, jumbo frames on or off)

Thanks,
L.

Hey,

I made some more changes :) but lets start from beginning.

I bought nas with two 500GB drives running in x-raid. At the point I had:

15MB/s write (PC->Nas)
21MB/s read (Nas->PC)

But 500GB wasn't enough of space and I put 4x1GB Seagate drives. I noticed that copying/moving new content from nas or to nas while data where divined between all 4 drives was much faster then the data that has been there before expanding to 4 drives. At that point I had:

20MB/s write (PC->Nas)
30MB/s read (Nas->PC).

Next step was to disable journaling and like I posted I had:

25 MB/s write (PC->Nas)
38 MB/s read (Nas->PC)

Today I decided to enable jumbo frames and current results are:

35-38 MB/s write (PC->Nas)
35-38 MB/s read (Nas->PC)

I set on router Jumbo Frames to 9000 and the same value on network cards.

As I wrote this my asked my wife (she has new pc) to run copy one movie from and to nas, and she had:

38 MB/s write (PC->Nas)
43 MB/s read (Nas->PC)

Both pc are running Windows XP+SP2, both network cards are NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller bot mobo chipsets are Nvidia ones.
One thing that worries me is sometimes I have like 1 sec lag/spike no idea how to call it and transfer drops to 21-25MB/s and goes back to 35-38MB/s. Sometimes is like 1 time per 700MB sometimes 1 time per 3GB, sometimes its flawless thru whole copy/moving process but I'm guessing it's the network card or maybe my hdd in pc can handle more :P
I wll try Intel Pro 1000 on my Notebook and the I let you know.

bbaraniec wrote:
ReadyNas NV+ 4.01b1-p2-T10 [1.00a042] 1024 MB [ 2.5-3-3-7 ]

Time to update that firmware ;) There is a newer beta out.