Re: Enhanced Synology CS/RS support

[Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:26:27 +0100
David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> [...] and the performance difference
> between a 3 or 5 drive RAID5 and a 4 drive RAID5, at least on
> RAIDframe can be massive.

Interesting. I didn't know that.
Then the difference would be even bigger on a NAS with a weak MPC8245 CPU.


> I'm currently using a couple of HP microservers with 5*2TB disks under
> NetBSD/amd64, but I'm always on the lookout for something neater :)
> 
> Actually - 5 or more would work for me, though for an 8 I'd probably
> end up using a 5 + 3...

QNAP makes nice NAS. I would recommend something like a QNAP TS-509Pro or
a TS-559Pro. Both are x86-based (Celeron and Atom), but I don't know how
well NetBSD would work on it.


-- 
Frank Wille