Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d NAS Server performance?

[khughes]

I was curious if anyone is running the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d NAS Server? I'm planning on maybe picking one up for our R/D and DR testing but was wondering how the performance was. Granted I'm not going to be running production on it, and using it mainly for proof of concept and testing but how much can 4 spindles really run?

• Kyle

[Starman20111014]

I have this device now connected to my esxi 5.0 machine. I am simply using a nic on the host connected to a private network dedicated to this san and this hosts connection. I connect with Windows server 2008r2's iscsi initiator.

The think keeps maxing out at 5.5x MB/sec transfer period (gigavit card and switch).

It always burst at first at what I would say is the proper gigbait iSCSI speed and then about 10 seconds later it stops and drops down. This makes absolulty no sense, I tried everything including all updates on the esci 5.0 host.

What’s funny is that all my legacy USB 2 drives that I backup to that worked fine before I upgraded also seem to get stuck at 5.5x MB/sec also and multiple different hosts.

I don’t get it.

[pbsenv]

I have complained since 5.0 came out that many of my devices (especially USB) are limited to 5 mb/sec and no one has ever replied. I think recently I have found that if I format drives IN 5.0 that if fixes that problem. My Iomega has been pushing out 30 mb/sec for over a year now with absolutely no problems. I dont however use it for VM's. I use it as a secondary store of my Veeam backups. I have pumped a LOT of data to this device over the past year and it really has held up to the task. Consider that I have the 8 TB version and 5 GB of it are full of Veeam VM backups done twice a day on 35 servers. I am very happy with it so far. Wish it were a bit faster but it’s not bad. Takes a long time to back up some of my 500 gig NAS servers when I do a full.