Thinking about running a home/media server

[roliath]

True enough your setup is a true SERVER..and if its was damn cheap or even free, you can't beat that. where as my setup is just a Network storage drive... It also has Web access, surveilance abilty, multimedia , back up, file sharing, printer sharing etc etc etc...

oh the new model is the DS1511+ though they also have much smaller setup's or larger if you need it

http://www.synology.com/products/pro...11%2B&lang=enu

I will admit though, these NAS's are not cheap.. but after working with a windows server and several other NAS's ...this one is the best for what i needed it to do.. Plus the cost of it is nothing compared to my collection and the heartache i would have if it crashed...

what read/write/iops you getting off that device (and model of drives)

[8mpg]

I love this little Synology DS211J that I have running. Has (2) 2tb hard drives running in Raid1. I set it up more for back up of important crap like family pictures and what not. Now I use it to download all my torrents and newsgroup nbz's. It takes up minimal electricity (think its 30w or something like that) and its super quiet. It runs 24/7 and hosts all my movies for the home server.

For $200 + hard drives, it rocks. Setting up user access is simple, having multiple logins with different access is simple. It can be connected to from an outside connection. Can run FTP, torrents, movie server, etc..

[Justa4Banger]

what read/write/iops you getting off that device (and model of drives)

The drives are Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB.

i have a benchmark somewhere but typically i see 90-100 write speeds and 90-100 read speeds. the Burst rate is a bit higher but measuring from my SSD to the NAS it runs as fast as gigabit will allow.

From a normal HDD to/from the nas the unit will run as fast as the slowest link... the HDD themselves.

OF course this is for large files 700-1gb+.

Smaller files kill speed but generally i never see anything slower than 20-25 MB/s

wait i found an old Benchmark that i ran... its long though...

NASPerf Test Results
( HDVideo_1Play )
Transferred 1303690438 bytes (1303690438 read, 0 written) in 16086ms
Average Throughput: 81.043MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 260790
Writes: 0
Overall: 260790

Average service times:
Read: 3208us
Write: 0us
Open: 8407us

Maximum service times:
Read: 244692us
Write: 0us
Open: 8407us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 3591
>1ms: 1408

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 0

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 1

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 4999
Writes: 0

NASPerf Test Results
( HDVideo_2Play )
Transferred 1448442252 bytes (1448442252 read, 0 written) in 14344ms
Average Throughput: 100.979MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 259717
Writes: 0
Overall: 259717

Average service times:
Read: 2557us
Write: 0us
Open: 10457us

Maximum service times:
Read: 366182us
Write: 0us
Open: 12833us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 3895
>1ms: 1682

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 0

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 2

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 5577
Writes: 0

NASPerf Test Results
( HDVideo_4Play )
Transferred 1274475288 bytes (1274475288 read, 0 written) in 12719ms
Average Throughput: 100.198MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 256691
Writes: 0
Overall: 256691

Average service times:
Read: 2542us
Write: 0us
Open: 9169us

Maximum service times:
Read: 228439us
Write: 0us
Open: 18651us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 3596
>1ms: 1369

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 0

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 4

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 4965
Writes: 0

NASPerf Test Results
( HDVideo_1Record )
Transferred 1572601856 bytes (0 read, 1572601856 written) in 15167ms
Average Throughput: 103.680MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 0
Writes: 262144
Overall: 262144

Average service times:
Read: 0us
Write: 2506us
Open: 94571us

Maximum service times:
Read: 0us
Write: 160321us
Open: 94571us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 0

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 5442
>1ms: 557

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 1

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 0
Writes: 5999

NASPerf Test Results
( HDVideo_1Play_1Record )
Transferred 950582470 bytes (517258438 read, 433324032 written) in 14512ms
Average Throughput: 65.502MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 258758
Writes: 262144
Overall: 260290

Average service times:
Read: 4845us
Write: 398us
Open: 19605us

Maximum service times:
Read: 398183us
Write: 24815us
Open: 32279us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 1047
>1ms: 952

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 1618
>1ms: 35

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 2

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 1999
Writes: 1653

NASPerf Test Results
( ContentCreation )
Transferred 154908069 bytes (12061650 read, 142846419 written) in 18383ms
Average Throughput: 8.426MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 1307
Writes: 12303
Overall: 7434

Average service times:
Read: 41us
Write: 1098us
Open: 6723us

Maximum service times:
Read: 20073us
Write: 2970584us
Open: 45898us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 9157
>1ms: 68

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 11340
>1ms: 270

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 98

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 9225
Writes: 11610

NASPerf Test Results
( OfficeProductivity )
Transferred 2775576771 bytes (1375763885 read, 1399812886 written) in 101942ms
Average Throughput: 27.227MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 2231
Writes: 1822
Overall: 2004

Average service times:
Read: 8us
Write: 29us
Open: 5436us

Maximum service times:
Read: 44931us
Write: 273927us
Open: 388459us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 616435
>1ms: 38

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 766845
>1ms: 1360

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 616

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 616473
Writes: 768205

NASPerf Test Results
( FileCopyToNAS )
Transferred 1408958464 bytes (0 read, 1408958464 written) in 14123ms
Average Throughput: 99.758MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 0
Writes: 65536
Overall: 65536

Average service times:
Read: 0us
Write: 647us
Open: 64916us

Maximum service times:
Read: 0us
Write: 221900us
Open: 64916us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 0

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 20908
>1ms: 591

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 1

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 0
Writes: 21499

NASPerf Test Results
( FileCopyFromNAS )
Transferred 1244987440 bytes (1244987440 read, 0 written) in 18050ms
Average Throughput: 68.971MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 65529
Writes: 0
Overall: 65529

Average service times:
Read: 943us
Write: 0us
Open: 2221us

Maximum service times:
Read: 262626us
Write: 0us
Open: 2221us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 13994
>1ms: 5005

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 0

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 1

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 18999
Writes: 0

NASPerf Test Results
( DirectoryCopyToNAS )
Transferred 246972884 bytes (70 read, 246972814 written) in 88302ms
Average Throughput: 2.797MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 70
Writes: 41417
Overall: 41410

Average service times:
Read: 20us
Write: 596us
Open: 3574us

Maximum service times:
Read: 20us
Write: 67908us
Open: 157567us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 1
>1ms: 0

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 5499
>1ms: 464

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 2833

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 1
Writes: 5963

NASPerf Test Results
( DirectoryCopyFromNAS )
Transferred 246972884 bytes (246972884 read, 0 written) in 26673ms
Average Throughput: 9.259MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 41410
Writes: 0
Overall: 41410

Average service times:
Read: 1084us
Write: 0us
Open: 7023us

Maximum service times:
Read: 266679us
Write: 0us
Open: 338997us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 4413
>1ms: 1551

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 0

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 0
>1ms: 2833

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 5964
Writes: 0

NASPerf Test Results
( PhotoAlbum )
Transferred 813302316 bytes (813295994 read, 6322 written) in 79693ms
Average Throughput: 10.205MB/s

Average transfer size:
Reads: 2937
Writes: 203
Overall: 2936

Average service times:
Read: 260us
Write: 7us
Open: 1665us

Maximum service times:
Read: 297195us
Write: 19us
Open: 26488us

Number of read transactions completed in
<1ms: 269071
>1ms: 7817

Number of write transactions completed in
<1ms: 31
>1ms: 0

Numer of open transactions completed in
<1ms: 3
>1ms: 166

Number of Transactions:
Reads: 276888
Writes: 31