QSAN XCubeNAS XN5004T 4+1 bay NAS review

1. Introduction2. Qsan XCubeNAS XN5004T / Packaging / Bundle3. Qsan XCubeNAS XN5004T / Design4. Qsan QSM OS5. Usability6. Testing Methodology7. ATTO Disk Benchmark8. Intel NASPT9. Backup / Restore10. Encryption Performance11. Workload Scenarios12. Real Life File Testing13. Power14. Closing Thoughts15. View All Pages

We tested the XN5004T with a number of scenario’s that it may face in the real world. The settings for these scenarios are as follows.

File Server
512MB file size, 16KB Block size, 80% Read 20% Write 100% Random, I/O queue depth 128

Web Server
1GB file size, 16KB Block size, 100% Read 0% Write 100% Random, I/O queue depth 64

Database
2GB file size, 4KB Block size, 90% Read 10% Write, 90% Random, 10% Sequential, I/O queue depth 128

Media Streaming
160GB file size, 64K Block size, 98% Read 2% Write, 100% Sequential, Boundary: 4K, I/O depth 64, Threads/Workers: 8

In our workload tests the XN5004T displays excellent consistency across the various RAID arrays with a 1GbE connection. With a 10GbE connection, the RAID 6 and RAID 5 performance for the most part shines through. The fastest performance we saw in these tests, 764.62MB/s, came in the Media Streaming workload with the drives built in a RAID 6 array.

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