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Review: Tandberg Viking FS-412
While sourcing NAS boxes for review, we approached Tandberg for an evaluation unit. So we tested the NAS we use at Cybermedia Labs. It was a Viking FS-412 with four 400 GB hard disks. The available storage capacity in this was 1.02 TB, and the rest was occupied by OS and RAID 5 configurations. It also supports RAID 0, 1 and 3, and shipped with Windows Storage Server 2003, 1 GB RAM which can be expanded to 4 GB. It also supports various file systems such as DFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP and SMB. One advantage it has over Snap and LevelOne is that it supports file screening. It also provides various types of log reports like application log, Web administration, FTP, NFS, security and HTTP share. It has support for anti virus and also comes with a recovery CD. On the down side, it doesn't back up to DVD.
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We couldn't run the performance tests in the same way as we did on the other NAS boxes since it is our production system. So its results can't be compared against the other NAS boxes. We're including its results because we observed something very interesting while testing it. While in the other NAS boxes, we ran our tests on the entire available capacity, in the Tandberg NAS, we created a separate 100 GB partition for the tests. The tests were, of course, done after isolating the NAS box into a separate network so that nobody else was accessing it. In NetBench, it gave a peak throughput of 218 Mbps with 5 clients. After that, the throughput fell as we added more clients to it. The interesting part came after we ran IOmeter on it. All scores were higher than all other NAS boxes.
This could very much be, because we only used a 100 GB data partition to test it. While copying 100 GB of data, it took 81 mins, which was second fastest, and a compressed ISO image of the same file took 57 mins, which was interestingly the slowest. So, while the NetBench and regular file transfer tests were comparable to others, IOmeter was exceptionally higher, possibly due to the smaller partition used.
Sanjay Majumder, Saurangshu Kanunjna, Swapnil Arora with help from Vijay Chauhan
Source: PCQuest
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