Buffalo Terastation iscsi

[rsutoratosu]

Anyone uses these buffalo stuff ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822165212

My work has one and its piss ass slow. Basically its 4 5400rpm WD Green. yeah WD green.

I'm looking to swap out these for 7200 red or something faster. But not sure if they dump the firmware on drives like other types of SAN, did not find anyone that swaped these before either.

Just curious if anyone has done swaps using other types of drives or not

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I can tell you it won't do you any better

We had a customer using some of these on site and was also getting terrible performance, so we had taken another one in to test with. Its not a hard drive problem at all (except with IOPS), but the fact that its an ARM based Storage appliance and that's just as good as it gets. We could get a few more IOPS by swapping in 7200RPM drives but it hardly mattered. Especially when Encryption is on, performance is just awful.

You can install any SATA drive you want in it, in fact if you look in the manual, they use really old 160GB drives from Western Digital and Samsung for some of their examples.

But it really won't make a difference. If you want / need better performance, you need to step up to a Intel Core / Xeon or AMD platform.

 

[rsutoratosu]

I already have a san but was looking to better use these. I think all its just going to be storage for surveillance videos... thanks.. pos buffalo

 

[Lorne]

We have one of the gen 1 Buffalo Terastations NAS, It is a real POS and was more of a scam when bought.
When we got ours the gigabit market wasnt at full swing and just running 10/100 at the time, After gigabit NIC became affordable we switched up our whole network only to find out the Terrastations motherboard couldnt handle that throughput.
Looking it up online there were alot of pages of complains and faqs that the gen 1 couldnt handle it and that it was just a selling scam by Buffolo, But was to late to get any compensation by the time anyone found out about it.
We can only get 12MBs out of it at best with its built in Gbit NIC, Even in JBOD mode we should have been able to get at least 30MBs but not.

We have a Drobo Pro now and its a first gen SAN in RAID5, chained through another desktop and I have gotten 80MB across our network which isnt bad.

Getting a good speed from a SANs over a local network can be a pain, YOu have to make sure that the system your bridging it through gets a good bandwidth then bandwidth out from there.

Supposedly you can connect newer SANs to a deddicated GBit switch then connect that to another GBit switch that all your workstations connct to (And router).
I dont know if Iscsi is still needed to make this work.

I do know that Iscsi does increase bandwidth with its sidebanding but if the SAN or NAS is slow already it does not help at all.

rsutoratosu, What kind of transfer rate you getting?, What mode the drives in?

 

[rsutoratosu]

no idea, i didnt have time to test it out, i just know the pos is so slow.. my other san are netapp and hp msa2012i. I had to move all the running vm out of that and move archives into that.. its kinda useless