NAS

NAS - network attached storage = fileserver that is not a full Windows or Linux server.

Lessons learned as of 2016-09-27

RAID6 is slower than RAID5 for read/write.

The TVS-EC1080 is a better option than TVS-871T for processing, as it is cheaper and supports RAID10.

TVS-871T with RAID6 is a good archive option.

TVS-871T performance

The benchmarks below show that without other operations underway, the  NAS has a simialr performance to a decidated server (Xeon with 3TB drives, ~5 years old). However, when doing simultaneous read/writes, performance dropped dramatically. This may be RAID6 issues.