Closing Thoughts

Ad

I'd like to close this review with what I wish I'd done. I wish that:

I had found a way to test software RAID to compare to hardware RAID and no RAID. I'm still worried about the step-by-step of repairing a software-managed RAID array. But, it would be interesting to see the speed hit. Especially across processors (Pentium, Centrino, x64 ...).

I wish I'd tested XP Pro with the RAID5 hardware. I have done some informal testing, and it seemed like XP Pro did not have the large file performance hit that Linux has. It is time to go back and get the micrometer out an actually measure.

I wish I'd known to test file system against write and read speeds on large files. That and, I wish I knew how to test file systems! 

I wish that I could get all the people posting to the Forumz from the first article to run iozone on their equipment and send me the equipment specifications (NAS and XP test system) and the .wks file that iozone creates.

Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Join our discussion on this topic

Speak out in the Tom's Networking reader survey!


Talkback
Be the first to comment on this review!

Note You are going to post a comment as anonymous.



  •
Submit my comment
Google Ads