- SATA
- 4 3.5" Drive Bays
- RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10
Follow up to my 3/2010 Review
12/05/2011
This review is from: PROMISE SmartStor DS4600 RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 4 3.5" Drive Bays eSATA, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, USB 2.0 4-Bay Hot-swappable Direct Attached Storage
Pros:
Good for small backup file size: under ~350GB backups complete in under 12 hours using Backup Exec.
Cons:
One drive light out, but utility says all drives are OK. Slow backups: I get 1200MB/sec to a different USB drive (Seagate) and only 350-400MB/sec to this one. The Promise used to deliver 1400MB/sec, so it seems to be failing. Deleting all data - which was very badly fragmented - did not help the speed. Using four 1.5TB Enterprise drives - 3 in RAID5 and 1 hot spare.
Overall Review:
I have another one of these DS4600s backing up for a different customer. We back up about 80GB each night and it works fine. Between both customers, all 8 drives are Enterprise class. In 15 months, have replaced 4 drives, which seems high for drives rated for this kind of service.
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- Jerry S.
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