QNAP TS-219P Turbo NAS
Oct 24th, 2009 | By SimonIOMeter is a new addition to the NAS results. It is an I/O subsystem measurement and characteristic tool for single and clustered systems initially designed by Intel.
IOMeter is both a workload generator (that is, it performs I/O operations in order to stress the system) and a measurement tool (that is, it examines and records the performance of its I/O operations and their impact on the system). It can be configured to emulate the disk or network I/O load of any program or benchmark, or can be used to generate entirely synthetic I/O loads. It can generate and measure loads on single or multiple (networked) systems.
I configured IOMeter to create a 1GB file on the target device, TS-219P, and it will pull the performance of 5 minutes and report back the average transfer rate for various block size recordings. The results are 100% sequential.
Much like the results from IOzone, we have a very similar trend. At low record sizes, the results are similar but as we increase the block size, the rates diverge ever so slightly. The trend is identical to that of IOZone, RAID 0 is always on top with JBOD taking second and RAID 1 in the rear.
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All the info will be helpful setting up the product. I was also thinking of using Seagate HDDs so I shall be pursuing that route.
Though I don’t have great IT knowledge I found the review intelligent, didn’t talk down to novices like me and yet gave loads of info helping me to make an informed judgement.
Thanks again
Bob