WD Red Pro 6 TB Review - High Performance NAS HDD Gets a Capacity Bump
by Ganesh T S on September 7, 2015 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- HDDs
- Western Digital
Single Client Access - NAS Benchmarks
Evaluation of single client performance in a networked environment was done by configuring three drives in RAID-5 in the QNAP TS-EC1279U-SAS-RP unit. Two of the network links were bonded (configured with 802.3ad LACP). Our usual Intel NASPT / robocopy benchmarks were processed from a virtual machine in our NAS testbed. The results are presented in the graphs below.
For almost all workloads, there is no discernible difference between the performance of various drives, indicating that it is the network acting as a bottleneck for single client access. Even when there are differences, it shows that certain drives are better suited for a particular type of workload compared to others. Differences start to appear when there are multiple clients accessing the NAS.
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Gigaplex - Monday, September 14, 2015 - link
They are talking about the expected number of unrecoverable read errors on a perfectly functional drive. Also, reallocated sectors occur on a write, not a read.xicaque - Sunday, October 23, 2016 - link
I like my NAS Reds