Have been away for about a month on various vacation break… During this time, my OpenSolaris NAS box (I called the server Falcon), has been rock stable. I am using it daily and had not need to reboot it for more than a month.
I have received a few comments asking for some performance number. Purely based on my own observation and memory, I have seen an average of about 12-14MB/s for writing over Gigabit Ethernet. However, the speed of writing varies a lot, anywhere from 2-3MB/s to 15MB/s. I get this stats from Teracopy’s calculation… so I can’t tell you for sure if it is totally accurate. Considering that the same machine writing to a USB2 hard drive (WDC Essential 1TB) would score about 17MB/s, I think this is a pretty good speed for a 6 disk RAIDZ pool using Atom 330.
The strange thing is that reading is only about 6.5MB/s. It hasn’t been much of a problem for me since I store a lot of media on that NAS pool for viewing on various machines that I have around the house. However, since I haven’t done any HD streaming, I am not sure if this is going to be an eliminating factor or not.
My feeling is that Atom 330 is underpowered. However, it depends on what your main objective is. My main objective is to have a low power NAS device for storing all my media, Atom 330 serves this purpose well.
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At a Glance: Last Week’s VirtualBox, JavaFX, NetBeans, OpenSolaris and OpenOffice Reviews - Technology on 08.31.2009
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