Our NAS benchmarking methodology consists of running the NASPT tests as well as the robocopy real world file transfer test. The testbed is as described here.
Given the home consumer focus, it is not surprising that the N2A2 doesn't support NFS or iSCSI. For the SMB NASes, we usually benchmark each of the three share types (SMB, NFS and iSCSI). However, for the N2A2, we will only deal with SMB shares in RAID0 and RAID1 configuration.
We don't get close to what LG claims in their marketing literature, but 40 MBps for a home consumer targeted NAS is not disappointing.
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Visual - Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - link
Stop wasting time with crap like this.If you mean to review NAS boxes, find some that are actually worth it, with space for 5 or 6 3.5" drives in RAID 5, preferably with hot-swap support, or just don't bother.
ganeshts - Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - link
Point noted. But, we also need to target home consumer solutions.The 5 / 6 drive RAID5 solutions you mention are targeted towards SMBs, and we do cover those too. By the way, we have two boxes which came in after this currently in the review queue (QNAP and Netgear), and I am just starting out with the benchmarking for those.
dhiiir - Friday, July 22, 2011 - link
I have been using Version 1 for several years and it works great. Version 2 is getting good reviews although a few people were upset that it doesn't continue the use of Drive Extender. That didn't bother me too much as there are add-ons for DE if you really feel you need that functionality. The Newegg price for WHS is very tempting.[[ w w w -( upsfashion )- c o m ]]I personally feel that the site is very good, there are many things we need, so I want to share with everyone. I believe you will like it.freez3 - Saturday, February 11, 2012 - link
Hi @ll,first many thanks to AnandTech for the great testings on this NAS.
It was very nice to see that you have also a deep lock at last single detail,
data recovery when the main board breaks down.
You have done a great job!
Did some body has experience with the NFS shares on this LG NAS?
I was a little bit surprised as I have seen this feature in the Web Interface,
because of it was not tested here and it was also not in the feature list of LG and shop I've bought it
After a quick test, the disillusion I've realized that NFS on N2A2DF2 is very slow only 2 MB/S writing,
with a mirrored 2TB HDD drives.
Perhaps one of my settings are wrong.
Thanks for your help!
Regards
Freez3