Atom + Addonics – Cheap Low Power NAS?
We couldn’t resist the opportunity to run the Atom board, with its 5 SATA disks, through our NAS stress tests. With an operating system installed on a CompactFlash card (and attached to the IDE controller) or a USB flash drive, we would be able to fit two of the Addonics controllers and put 10 disks (20 TB!) on the Atom board.
With the existing Windows 2008 R2 installation, we run our normal usage tests:
| Source | Target | Data Set | Bytes Per Second | Megabytes Per Minute | %age of PC to PC |
| PC | NAS | Small Files | 3,176,464 | 181.8 | 11.8 % |
| PC | NAS | Large Files | 41,188,472 | 2,356.8 | 63.5 % |
| NAS | PC | Small Files | 2,821,077 | 161.4 | 10.5 % |
| NAS | PC | Large Files | 31,315,814 |
1,791.9 | 48.3 % |
And then we run the stress tests:
| Source | Target | Data Set | Bytes Per Second | Megabytes Per Minute | %age of PC to PC |
| NAS | NAS | Small Files | 1,888,298 | 108.0 | 7.0 % |
| NAS | NAS | Large Files | 23,226,629 | 1329.0 | 35.8 % |
All we can say is wow. The Atom beats our current performance title holder, the Intel SS4200 NAS for two of the tests, and handily beats out the Netgear ReadyNAS and LaCie 2big network in another three of the six. And this is with no tuning and no customised light-weight operating system.
Don't forget that this is not a completely fair test - the Atom is using five 5,400 rpm low power notebook disks, and many of the competition are using two or four 7,200 rpm desktop drives.
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|70.114.239.xxx |2009-12-30 06:46:59 outcast2k - product review gaps?good start on covering some of the basics. some other detais that would be good to know:
1) how long does a RAID rebuild take?
2) how do you tell how far a rebuild has left?
3) how do you tell which disk failed?
4) does the software UI handle 2+ HDM-XA's in the system?
5) how do you recover the RAID if the HDM-XA itself has failed and needs to be replaced?
6) what's the biggest sized drives supported? 2TB?
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|219.90.134.xxx |2010-03-07 23:17:32 TERRABYTEONE - ?? 3132 pciex1 card max output is 190mb/seciv tested this.. etc..
sil 3132 pci-e x1 card )(addtronics one) or jmb 363 or highpoint 4 port x1 2300 raid card.
max oot put is 190mb sec total.. and if using 2 ports its 95mb/sec..
tested this using 4x volir wd 300g hdd
(they get each 109mb/sec)
so if using both e-sata ports.. transfer maxes out at 190mb.sec..
if using 4 hdd in raid 0 etc... max output for 4x vr 300 on intel on-board raid (x48 chipset) 500+mb/sec..
on sil using this product is.. 90mb/sec.
als tryed 4x 1.5 tb 7200.11 hdd..max out at 90mb/sec
also tryed raid 5.. 90mb/sec.
2tb hdd supported. but hardware or nonhardware raid the sil raid gear does not support partitions bigger than 2tb.(old design)
to get 6 tb hdd spac out of in i raid 0 (4x 1.5tb)
i hd to make 4 partitions .. the software is limited in what size to make. it..it was tricky.. i had to make partitin/volumns 2+ then delet and recreat smaller ones. in aparticular order.
they need to update thar raid cards. (chan...
Thanks for the great write up!