Bill Broadley wrote: > An interesting option I hadn't seen until very recently: > http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2018463,00.asp > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816133001 > > Not particularly fast (99MB/sec was the fastest number I saw > in the review). But if you need $6TB for $3k it looks pretty > attractive. They did drop this little tidbit vis-a-vis software RAID: >Using 1MB 100% sequential transfer requests, the DS-1220 managed read >and write throughput over 250MB/sec with CPU utilization around 2%.
It could be that the poor performance is a product of dodgy firmware. The array is still looks quite attractive as a mass storage device. -- Geoffrey D. Jacobs Go to the Chinese Restaurant, Order the Special _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
