We put the Seagate NAS Pro 4-bay through some IOMeter tests with a CIFS share being accessed from up to 25 VMs simultaneously. The following four graphs show the total available bandwidth and the average response time while being subject to different types of workloads through IOMeter. The tool also reports various other metrics of interest such as maximum response time, read and write IOPS, separate read and write bandwidth figures etc. Some of the interesting aspects from our IOMeter benchmarking run can be found here.
The Rangeley platform shows its mettle here. Note that as soon as more than two clients start simultaneously accessing the NAS, the effective bandwidth numbers as well as average response times of the NAS Pro 4-bay turn out to be the best of the lot. This shows the value of having the storage I/O talk directly to the CPU instead of going through bridge chips.
I really like this idea. I have an old Buffalo TerraStation 4x500gb that I have outgrown. Instead of replacing with another 4bay NAS I'll look for a single or dual and just buy a second as the backup. I never made consistant backups of my current NAS and as you stated, one hardware failure away from losing my data without expensive and time consuming fix.
I just inquired about buying a 4 or 6 bay Seagate NAS Pro and the vendor told me that Seagate only certifies their own drives to run in these NAS appliances. Your review was with WD drives so obviously the NAS works just fine with other brands. And obviously Seagate isn't going to sell it's own NAS with someone else's drives in it. Would Seagate not warranty the NAS if I put HGST drives in it? And if I *must* buy Seagate drives to get full warranty coverage, do you like the models that they come with? Thank you :)
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cletus_slackjawd - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link
I really like this idea. I have an old Buffalo TerraStation 4x500gb that I have outgrown. Instead of replacing with another 4bay NAS I'll look for a single or dual and just buy a second as the backup. I never made consistant backups of my current NAS and as you stated, one hardware failure away from losing my data without expensive and time consuming fix.Jeff.Adams - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
I just inquired about buying a 4 or 6 bay Seagate NAS Pro and the vendor told me that Seagate only certifies their own drives to run in these NAS appliances. Your review was with WD drives so obviously the NAS works just fine with other brands. And obviously Seagate isn't going to sell it's own NAS with someone else's drives in it. Would Seagate not warranty the NAS if I put HGST drives in it? And if I *must* buy Seagate drives to get full warranty coverage, do you like the models that they come with?Thank you :)