NTG Partners with AetherStore!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Besides being a NAS yet not NAS, what does it do today?
It's never been a NAS in any way. It has always been a DAS and still is.
A software DAS just because you can only access the storage form the machine running the controller. But the storage itself is software NAS (though not accessible to anything but the controller.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Besides being a NAS yet not NAS, what does it do today?
It's never been a NAS in any way. It has always been a DAS and still is.
A software DAS just because you can only access the storage form the machine running the controller. But the storage itself is software NAS (though not accessible to anything but the controller.
yeah, that's how I was more or less viewing it in my head.
The controller can of course share that storage out, and then it becomes a NAS.
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@JaredBusch said:
But the storage itself is software NAS (though not accessible to anything but the controller.
No, it's block storage. Nothing NAS-like in the system. It's SAN under the hood with DAS exposure on top. No file protocols in use.
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@Dashrender said:
The controller can of course share that storage out, and then it becomes a NAS.
It's block storage itself. Like any block storage, you can put a NAS head in front of it to share it out. But the NAS is the part that you build.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
The controller can of course share that storage out, and then it becomes a NAS.
It's block storage itself. Like any block storage, you can put a NAS head in front of it to share it out. But the NAS is the part that you build.
Exactly, that is what I meant.. you share it through the windows box you have the controller software installed on...
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Yup, it is an excellent building block for an in house Windows file server. Great starting point for getting a single access point to a distributed, redundant system. Your data is protected in multiple physical devices but still easy to access.
But NAS is just one use case. A REALLY good use case is as DAS for things like Veeam backups.
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Right now, it seems like that it is best used as Backup space. File Writes are slow, especially when dealing with large files. That's what makes it so good for backups, as long as it isn't so slow that your backup software or file copies time out.
This hasn't been an issue for me in my lab here.
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@dafyre said:
Right now, it seems like that it is best used as Backup space. File Writes are slow, especially when dealing with large files. That's what makes it so good for backups, as long as it isn't so slow that your backup software or file copies time out.
This hasn't been an issue for me in my lab here.
I did not test the last beta but prior to that write speeds were so horrid that it was useless as a Veeam Repository.
I know that speeds were improved in the next version.
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@JaredBusch
I've missed out on the last several Alpha releases, and didn't get into the Beta. I lost two of the machines I had available here, so it pretty much cut me out of the process. -
Hey Everyone, we’re also very excited about our new partnership with NTG! Thanks Danielle for starting the thread!
Picking up on Jared’s point to provide updated write speed information for the beta and now production versions: we typically see write speeds from 12-20MB/s – vastly improved from the alpha!
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Crap, now I need to go find that email about getting a full key from being in the alpha. I forgot about that.
