Comments on: Building a NAS http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/ Code, 3D, Games, Linux and much more... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:01:11 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: geofrancis http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/comment-page-1/#comment-174605 geofrancis Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:49:34 +0000 http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/#comment-174605 i have started building a higher powered gaming version of machies design. J&W am2+ itx board, phenom X4 9150e 4gb ddr2, ati hd4850, 5xsata hotswap rack with 2x 1tb drives, 500gb, 320gb, 250gb drives, watercooling :D i have started building a higher powered gaming version of machies design.
J&W am2+ itx board, phenom X4 9150e 4gb ddr2, ati hd4850, 5xsata hotswap rack with 2x 1tb drives, 500gb, 320gb, 250gb drives, watercooling :D

]]> By: Tangential Software Usage | EntBlog http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/comment-page-1/#comment-166117 Tangential Software Usage | EntBlog Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:31:06 +0000 http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/#comment-166117 [...] own home (code repository, wiki, bug tracking service, build machines, web server, backup machines, NAS servers, etc). As you can imagine, we try to optimize our time and bandwidth as much as possible. I [...] [...] own home (code repository, wiki, bug tracking service, build machines, web server, backup machines, NAS servers, etc). As you can imagine, we try to optimize our time and bandwidth as much as possible. I [...]

]]> By: ent http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/comment-page-1/#comment-28830 ent Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:39:39 +0000 http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/#comment-28830 Eric, the performance: <b>   -----HDD performance------------------   </b> nas ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 1674 MB in 2.00 seconds = 836.98 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 376 MB in 3.01 seconds = 125.05 MB/sec <b>   -----Network performance------------------   </b> ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 192.168.0.189, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 244 KByte ------------------------------------------------------------ [1920] local 192.168.0.2 port 2040 connected with 192.168.0.189 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [1920] 0.0-10.0 sec 919 MBytes 770 Mbits/sec <b>   -----Samba performance------------------   </b> I used <a href="http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">SiSoft Sandra</a> for testing the NetBIOS connection getting       51Mb/s (408Mbit/s) in the buffered read test.   I think that NetBIOS protocol is having some sort of problem to get the maximum performance. I will write here the performance that I am getting using FTP whenever I have more spare time to do the tests. Eric, the performance:


 
—–HDD performance——————
 

nas ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 1674 MB in 2.00 seconds = 836.98 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 376 MB in 3.01 seconds = 125.05 MB/sec


 
—–Network performance——————
 

————————————————————
Client connecting to 192.168.0.189, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 244 KByte
————————————————————
[1920] local 192.168.0.2 port 2040 connected with 192.168.0.189 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1920] 0.0-10.0 sec 919 MBytes 770 Mbits/sec


 
—–Samba performance——————
 

I used SiSoft Sandra for testing the NetBIOS connection getting

 
    51Mb/s (408Mbit/s) in the buffered read test.
 

I think that NetBIOS protocol is having some sort of problem to get the maximum performance. I will write here the performance that I am getting using FTP whenever I have more spare time to do the tests.

]]> By: Zalo http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/comment-page-1/#comment-28348 Zalo Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:45:05 +0000 http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/#comment-28348 I want a CVS account! I want a CVS account!

]]> By: Eric Fortier http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/comment-page-1/#comment-28332 Eric Fortier Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:23:49 +0000 http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/#comment-28332 Great box! What kind of performance are you getting from the Gigabit connection? Great box! What kind of performance are you getting from the Gigabit connection?

]]> By: Fran http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/comment-page-1/#comment-28267 Fran Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:33:00 +0000 http://entland.homelinux.com/blog/2007/07/09/building-a-nas/#comment-28267 Good job! :) Good job! :)

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