Windows Performance: CIFS and iSCSI - LaCie 5big NAS Pro Review

Windows Performance: CIFS and iSCSI

The single client performance of the 5big NAS Pro unit was evaluated on the Windows platform using Intel NASPT and our standard robocopy benchmark. This was run from one of the virtual machines in our NAS testbed. All data for the robocopy benchmark on the client side was put in a RAM disk (created using OSFMount to ensure that the client's storage system shortcomings wouldn't affect the benchmark results.

We created a 250 GB iSCSI target and mapped it on the Windows VM. The same benchmarks were run and the results are presented below.

In future reviews, we will be presenting results from other NAS units (our plan is to rerun the benchmarks using the new enterprise hard drives) along with the NASPT results (and we will also make sure to update this page with results from them as and when they become available). A single client with one GbE link is not able to saturate the bonded interfaces. To check up on the full power of the link aggregated interface, we have to look at the multi-client performance benchmark.

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