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RN526X with 6x 4TB WD Red PRO. What should I set up this time, my 3rd readynas.
This was a bit unscheduled since I was thinking to just upgrade my pro pioneer drives! However, the pro pioneer appears to have died and I think it's the raid controller causing things not to boot.....
Really? The CPU so strong now that it's only limited to my network? Say I do go 10gbe, which is faster? Can't wait to see what transfer rates I can actually acheive. Melt my switches lol.
Here's an old review of the RN516 that has benchmarks for RAID-5, RAID-6 and RAID-10 - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5927/netgear-readynas-516-6-bay-nas-review/index8.html
When I compare the three charts, they look essentially the same to me. The RN526 has a faster CPU than the RN516, and there have been changes in OS 6 to improve performance since this review was published.
ynohtna wrote:
Really? The CPU so strong now that it's only limited to my network?
For sustained (large file) transfers, that is the case. The gigabit ceiling is about 125 MB/sec.
Of course the disks can also be a bottleneck, An RN 526 with SSDs would certainly give faster numbers on some of these benchmarks.
ynohtna wrote:
Say I do go 10gbe, which is faster? Can't wait to see what transfer rates I can actually acheive. Melt my switches lol.
Based on this RN716x review, RAID-10 will be fastest. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/32418-netgear-readynas-716-reviewed?start=1
Though I think all are fast enough that you should be basing your choice based on the storage you need and the redundancy you want.
As far as redundancy goes, RAID-6 protects against all combinations of 2-drive failures. RAID-10 protects against some 2-drive failures, but not all.
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