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Professional data storage solutions provider, Infortrend, announced five new advanced EonNAS models at CES 2013 in January. This included new additions to the EonNAS Pro and EonNAS 1000 series. Designed from SMBs and SOHOs these new NAS devices feature an advanced new hardware design combined with ZFS and enterprise-level data service functionalities...
The new EonNAS x10 series models included the EonNAS Pro 210, 510, 810 and EonNAS 1110, 1210. Like most modern high performance desktop NAS devices the EonNAS x10 series utilize the Intel Atom D2700 processor. This new processor boasts superior performance with less power consumption over the earlier models.
Already we have looked at a number of NAS products that utilize this very processor, such as the QNAP TS-269L, TS469L, TS-869L, Thecus N5500 as well as the Synology DS2413+ and DS713+. Today we will be adding the EonNAS Pro 510 to that list and with a retail value of roughly $700 it is priced alongside the QNAP TS-569L. However unlike NAS solutions from QNAP and Synology the Infortrend EonNAS x10 series feature an embedded ZFS file system. This file system offers end-to-end data integrity by eliminating silent data corruption through an extensive hierarchical checksum mechanism. Snapshot and replication functionalities help users efficiently create data copies to protect against potential threats. The ZFS file system uses RAM (Random Access Memory) to cache data, both most frequently used data and the most recently used data. The more RAM that is available, the faster it can determine whether a specific block has already been written and can thus safely be marked as a duplicate which leads to better performance. Data duplication saves space and reduces unnecessary IO operations to improve performance. The main problem with using the ZFS file system on a device such as the EonNAS Pro 510 is its dependency on memory (RAM). Whereas it is possible to run a RAID array with just 512MB of RAM and run into no performance or stability issues, doing the same with ZFS will result in lots of crashes. Ideally ZFS requires at least 2GB of RAM and as luck would have it the EonNAS Pro 510 comes loaded with 2GB of RAM, but will that be enough? Before we jump into the benchmarks let’s take a little more time to get to know the EonNAS Pro 510 from its external design to the hardware that can be found inside. Of course we are also going to look at the EonNAS UI and discover how the software that runs it compares to the competition... |
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