{"id":3595,"date":"2013-09-19T23:26:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T06:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2013-09-19T23:32:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T06:32:58","slug":"getting-some-new-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=3595","title":{"rendered":"Getting Some New Hard Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, getting NAS drives for my file server.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NASDrives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3596\" alt=\"NASDrives\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NASDrives-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NASDrives-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NASDrives.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have previously used desktop hard drives but these drives pcitured above are specifically meant for NAS. \u00a0It has TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery) and higher MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure).<\/p>\n<p>I looked up NAS devices and saw that a lot of the higher end ones had about 100 MB\/s Read\/Write performance on RAID 10 drives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallnetbuilder.com\/nas\/nas-charts\/view\">http:\/\/www.smallnetbuilder.com\/nas\/nas-charts\/view<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ConsumerNASperformance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3597\" alt=\"ConsumerNASperformance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ConsumerNASperformance-300x83.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ConsumerNASperformance-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ConsumerNASperformance.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I was curious what my system had which is a Whitebox Linux with RAID10.<\/p>\n<p>I found this tool<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.808.dk\/?code-csharp-nas-performance\">http:\/\/www.808.dk\/?code-csharp-nas-performance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I tried it out, I was pretty floored<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MyNASperformance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3598\" alt=\"MyNASperformance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MyNASperformance-300x246.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MyNASperformance-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MyNASperformance.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was some crappy performance with 34 MB\/s Write and 60MB\/s Read<\/p>\n<p>I changed the config from<\/p>\n<pre>socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192<\/pre>\n<p>to<\/p>\n<pre>socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536<\/pre>\n<p>And it was much better<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MyNASperformanceBetter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3599\" alt=\"MyNASperformanceBetter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MyNASperformanceBetter-300x263.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MyNASperformanceBetter-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MyNASperformanceBetter.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not sure how accurate those numbers are but I feel better.<\/p>\n<p>My new drives are slower though, but the slow speeds reduce vibration, the old drives are 750GB 7200RPM drives, the new ones are 1TB 5400RPM drives.<\/p>\n<p>So hope it can keep up the 100MB\/s performance.<\/p>\n<p>Was a long day, had a LOT to do, was hoping to work out, but only can find time to do some pushups and situps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, getting NAS drives for my file server. &nbsp; I have previously used desktop hard drives but these drives pcitured above are specifically meant for NAS. \u00a0It has TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery) and higher MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=3595\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-toys","category-reviews","category-technical","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}