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Planex Gigabit Network Attach Storage (NAS)

File Copy Test

Written by SysX and filed under Reviews > Networking
Published on September 15, 2006, 7:40 pm

Source: Planex
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With a NAS, some factors need to be considered:

  1. If I use this as a NAS, how will this affect my performance?
  2. What is the performance hit compared to using internal hard drives?

Thus Two tests will be performed:

  • File Copy Test
    • To provide a rough gauge as to the access speeds of the NAS-01G, we will attempt to copy the contents of the Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Disc from one hard drive to another, and back again
  • Real World Usage
    • Usage of the NAS as a storage and render drive for Video-Editing purposes, with Pinnacle Studio 10.5 Titanium Edition.

We copied the contents of Microsoft Windows XP SP2 from one hard drive to the NAS, and back to the hard drive. Windows XP SP2 has about 6996 Files, 204 Folders and takes up about 618MB ( 648,905,830 bytes ), as reported by the WinXP Operating System.


AnalogX Netstats Live shows that the bandwidth obtained, using the integrated Broadcom Gigabit LAN of the Gigabyte GI-975X motherboard yielded a maximum of 12MB/s. There seems to be some serious bottleneck here, as a connection to my home server, which is utilizing an Intel Pro/1000 integrated Gigabit network adaptor, yielded a maximum of 27MB/s.

It should be noted that current generation hard drives yield about 20 - 70MB/s of data throughput.