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RN104 vs NV+V2 read performance and disk storage variance
Hello, Recently, I experienced some traumatic experience with multiple drive failures. Luckily I was able to keep all my files intact on the NV+V2. In the process, I decided to get an RN104 to act ...
Thanks xeltros.
I agree that RN104 should perform better. I was thinking the reason for the slower performance was due to my using the 5900 RPM drives instead of the 7200RPM on the NV+V2. I have had some challenges with those faster drives so hoping the 5900 rpm NAS drives will last me longer.
I did not enable antivirus. No add-ons. not sure where to check whether encryption was enabled. The array completed yesterday and did take much longer than the NV+v2. Of course, this RN104 has 4 x 4TB, and the the other was with 4x3TB so I'll expect that it takes more time.
Now, as for the block size for the partition, I am curious where to tune that. There were no options on the web admin interface. However, I guess it is possible to log into the system via root and configure things, but i am not yet prepared to do that at this time. my share contains a lot of scanned photos ranging from few hundred kilobytes, to the recent photos that are in the order of 3-4MB. Some large home videos from my old camcorder from trips years ago, but those are in the few GB range. I wonder if the block size of say 4kb is generally smaller than the files that are in the hundred kbs/mb/gbs, how it contributes to much more wasted space. There was no place i found that allowed me to specify any disk or partition block sizes.
It would be good if we were able to create multiple logical volumes that we might store large videos vs smaller pictures and have the ability to tune block sizes according to the type of files in the volumes.
The 4 x 4TB drives with RAID5 is giving me around 10.08TB remaining free.
Dyv.
I agree that RN104 should perform better. I was thinking the reason for the slower performance was due to my using the 5900 RPM drives instead of the 7200RPM on the NV+V2. I have had some challenges with those faster drives so hoping the 5900 rpm NAS drives will last me longer.
I did not enable antivirus. No add-ons. not sure where to check whether encryption was enabled. The array completed yesterday and did take much longer than the NV+v2. Of course, this RN104 has 4 x 4TB, and the the other was with 4x3TB so I'll expect that it takes more time.
Now, as for the block size for the partition, I am curious where to tune that. There were no options on the web admin interface. However, I guess it is possible to log into the system via root and configure things, but i am not yet prepared to do that at this time. my share contains a lot of scanned photos ranging from few hundred kilobytes, to the recent photos that are in the order of 3-4MB. Some large home videos from my old camcorder from trips years ago, but those are in the few GB range. I wonder if the block size of say 4kb is generally smaller than the files that are in the hundred kbs/mb/gbs, how it contributes to much more wasted space. There was no place i found that allowed me to specify any disk or partition block sizes.
It would be good if we were able to create multiple logical volumes that we might store large videos vs smaller pictures and have the ability to tune block sizes according to the type of files in the volumes.
The 4 x 4TB drives with RAID5 is giving me around 10.08TB remaining free.
Dyv.
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