I have set up a number of XPEnology NAS unit recently. I've done this with ESXi 6.0, LSI HBA in pass-through mode with one 2TB and 2 1TB HDs for testing.
I've found that DSM 5.2-5967 works a treat. The file transfer through the network average: write 104 Mbytes/s and the reads 114 Mbytes/s. These are slightly better than the throughput I get with my FreeNAS and OmniOS based NAS units. The beauty of XPEnology 5.2 aside from great speed, is being able to add drives of any size to the array as more space is needed and unused older, smaller or larger drives turn up.
I've been using ZFS for about 5 years now. I've done things to my disks that a raid 5 or 6 would not have tolerated, so for that data, ZFS all the way. For the less important stuff DSM 5.2 looks really good, and I like the simplicity of using it, but there is something better on the block, DSM 6! Or so we are told.
I've just been playing with DSM 6.0.2-8451. Got it set up in VM just like, identical to, 5.2 as far as the VM components. This is one of the joys of using ESXi, multiple computers in one physical box and very fine control over all the parts, hardware and software. The good parts: btrfs, next best to ZFS right now? only time will tell. We can add HDs to the array, we'll see, should be able to. SHR? well it seems we are Sh** out of luck if you want to set up a fresh DSM 6* NAS. So we now have one less reason to use Ver 6's of DSM. My trials also show that the network throughput in DSM 6.0.2 is 69% of what 5.2 provides. Write at 71 Mbytes/s, reads at 74 Mbytes/s. Remember same hardware and software other than the DSM versions and btrfs vs SHR both single redundancy.
The questions: If anyone wants to setup a simple noncritical data NAS, why would they use DSM 6 and up or would one use DSM 5.2 until it fails? or would one use FreeNAS, NAS4Free or OmniOS with napp-it as GUI, as these are better alternatives than DSM 6.
I enjoyed playing with DSM in all it's flavours, so for NAS #3 I'll give DSM 5.2 a chance to prove it's worth, at least until I can test run FreeNAS 10, correction that's now FreeNAS Corral.
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I have set up a number of XPEnology NAS unit recently. I've done this with ESXi 6.0, LSI HBA in pass-through mode with one 2TB and 2 1TB HDs for testing.
I've found that DSM 5.2-5967 works a treat. The file transfer through the network average: write 104 Mbytes/s and the reads 114 Mbytes/s. These are slightly better than the throughput I get with my FreeNAS and OmniOS based NAS units. The beauty of XPEnology 5.2 aside from great speed, is being able to add drives of any size to the array as more space is needed and unused older, smaller or larger drives turn up.
I've been using ZFS for about 5 years now. I've done things to my disks that a raid 5 or 6 would not have tolerated, so for that data, ZFS all the way. For the less important stuff DSM 5.2 looks really good, and I like the simplicity of using it, but there is something better on the block, DSM 6! Or so we are told.
I've just been playing with DSM 6.0.2-8451. Got it set up in VM just like, identical to, 5.2 as far as the VM components. This is one of the joys of using ESXi, multiple computers in one physical box and very fine control over all the parts, hardware and software. The good parts: btrfs, next best to ZFS right now? only time will tell. We can add HDs to the array, we'll see, should be able to. SHR? well it seems we are Sh** out of luck if you want to set up a fresh DSM 6* NAS. So we now have one less reason to use Ver 6's of DSM. My trials also show that the network throughput in DSM 6.0.2 is 69% of what 5.2 provides. Write at 71 Mbytes/s, reads at 74 Mbytes/s. Remember same hardware and software other than the DSM versions and btrfs vs SHR both single redundancy.
The questions: If anyone wants to setup a simple noncritical data NAS, why would they use DSM 6 and up or would one use DSM 5.2 until it fails? or would one use FreeNAS, NAS4Free or OmniOS with napp-it as GUI, as these are better alternatives than DSM 6.
I enjoyed playing with DSM in all it's flavours, so for NAS #3 I'll give DSM 5.2 a chance to prove it's worth, at least until I can test run FreeNAS 10, correction that's now FreeNAS Corral.
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