The Bleeding Edge

Those of you who have been following along on my mass storage adventures for the last month or so know that all of the OWC Thunderbolt-attached SSDs I've tried -- two 4M2's and one Mercury Pro U.2 -- have been unreliable when connected to my Windows PCs. Repeated calls to OWC … [Read more...]

As reported in the previous few posts, my 10 GbE QNAP NAS boxes fail to achieve wire speed even with 4 SSD striped arrays. I've been suspecting the processing power of the NAS's is the problem. They're fine for backup, but I don't think I'd like to map them into a local drive … [Read more...]

Now that I have both TS-932PX-4G's operating, and the defective one sent back to Amazon, it's time to optimize the configurations for my use. Here are my objectives. Flat address space of at least 32 TB. Wire speed reads and writes over 10 GbE connections. Tolerant … [Read more...]

I sent the NAS with the ATA error back to Amazon, and received another QNAP TS-932PX-4G. The big question in my mind was: "Was the seeming incompatibility with the Samsung quad SSDs a hardware issue in the first NAS, or was it a design issue?" I put 4 of the Samsung 8 TB SSDs in … [Read more...]

I put 4 Sandisk 3D 4TB SSDs in the lower bays of the QNAP TS-932PX-4G NAS. My first thought was to configure them as caching disks, but I thought I'd do some measurements with the 4 SSDs in a RAID 10 array (striped and mirrored). I decided to use a Lightroom catalog directory, … [Read more...]