Re: Optimal Storage Server
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 04:52 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 7/22/2012 10:17 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>
> > But if you multiply the price of five Netgear NV+ (which each holds four
> > disks) ~ CHF 300.-- each then this isn't what I'd call cheap.
>
> And even if your self built (take lots of pride in that achievement BTW)
> Norco solution is slightly more expensive, you have a large number of
> advantages, not least of which is increased performance. You can also
> have all your files under one share/mapping where that would be 5 shares
> using the ready made NAS boxen. And you intentionally built it leaving
> some performance on the table, for increased flexibility WRT expansion
> with one filesystem tree.
>
> You're getting ~60MB/s server <> laptop now (which is pretty nice for a
> laptop mechanical drive). Drop an SSD into the laptop and you should be
> seeing closer to 90-100MB/s, assuming you're cabled with GbE and the
> NICs on both ends are decent.
>
> > And with the speed and possibilities it gives me I consider my solution
> > better than what I could get from a ready to use NAS.
>
> Amen. ;)
>
> Just imagine what it would do if you started from scratch with 20 of the
> Black drives in md/RAID6 w/a 32K chunk, and XFS tuned to the stripe.
> You'd easily hit 1GB/s streaming reads, with streaming writes probably
> >500MB/s. Depends on your CPU. I forgot which one is in the Asus board.
You're absolutely right what the pride concerns :-)
And as well the cost. But I could use the old mobo, CPU (i3 550) so this
looks a bit better for the Norco solution.
Btw: I'm still waiting for this damping mats :-/
Can only take some more weeks...
Cheers
Ramon
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