Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the Intel Corporation and announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) on February 17, 1998 - since then it got wide...
For these tests, we use RankDisk, an application developed and copyrighted by Intel. In our testing, we found RankDisk to be suitable for a neutral benchmark. RankDisk is used to record a trace of disk activity during usage of typical applications. These...
HDTune tests a similar level of features as compared with HDTach, but with a different access pattern. Thus provides us with an additional set of benchmark numbers to compare between storage configurations. Here we can get the minimum, maximum...
HD Tach will test the sequential read, random access and interface burst speeds of your attached storage device (hard drive, flash drive, removable drive, etc). All drive technologies such as SCSI, IDE/ATA, 1394, USB, SATA and RAID are supported. Test...
Our custom PCPer-FC test does some fairly simple file creation and copy routines in order to test the storage system for speed. The script creates a set of files of varying sizes, times the creation process, then copies the same files to another...
Internals:
Warranty voidance maneuver:
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PCB front:
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PCB back, showing 8 more flash packages:
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Last year we did a combined review of the ioSafe SoloPRO and the Synology Diskstation 212+ NAS solution. The ioSafe handled the function of disaster-hardened storage, capable of withstanding a typical building fire along with the resulting drenching from...
Conclusion:
Pros:
Disaster-proof storage (need I say more, really?)
Performance, connectivity, and software identical to the DiskStation 213
Cons:
Price (but cheaper and more capable than the two products individually)
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Software:
Since the N2 packs a fully featured Synology DiskStation within its shell, the software is no different from that installed on the DiskStation. In fact, the installation CD comes with the standard loadout image for a DiskStation 213, meaning...
I dedicated an entire page to this because it got, well, interesting. First we will take a look at how we can access the swappable drives. While the original ioSafe was not meant to be user serviceable and sealed the drive in a water proof bag, such...
