Hands on: Qsan XCubeNAS XN5104R review
This comment first appeared in issue 356 PC Pro.
Represents QSAN’s new entry point NAS device XCubenas XN5104R family provides SMB with a small footprint storage solution and has enough room for growth. This competitive 1u rack NAS presented four thermal SFF/SFF SATA DRIVE BAYS, secreted a pair of NVME SSD The internal slot combines them with four 2.5GBE multi -Gigabit ports.
Quad -core 2.3GHz Intel Xeon D-1714 CPU Sitting on the driver’s seat and cooperating with 8GB DDR4, it can extend it to 256GB. Because the spare PCI-E Gen4 slot accepts QSAN’s dual-port 10GBE and 25GBE cards, there is more space in the network port.
A striking feature of the QSAN NAS device is their huge extension potential, and the XN5104R is no exception. Install the SAS3 PCI-E card of QSAN, you can combine the mixture of the external disk frame together, a total of 414 drivers and the maximum original capacity of 9pb.
For deployment, we loaded four 22TB Western Digital Red Pro NAS drives and used XFinder applications to find the device and install the latest QSM software. From the “Custom Settings” option, we created a large RAID5 storage pool. If you install NVMe SSD, you can allocate one or two to one pool as a mixed cache, which can accelerate the reading and writing operation.
QSM provides a lot Storage Management and data integrity function. The operating system based on ZFS includes a photocopy of NAS shares and iSCSI LUN, online data repeated data deletion, smart real -time data layer, and one of the three worms (once read many) policies, Apply to NAS shared data. You can use a strategy to ensure that you can modify any content in the stock, and you can modify it so that you can copy or delete any content by applying the new file that is replicated to the stock by applying the Forever Corever POREICY.
The QSM Web console is easy to browse, but the application is in short supply. QSAN only includes QSAN, hardware surveillance for files and media management. Anti -virus softwareBackup and backup Cloud synchronizationEssence It used to provide VPN, SQL database, Web service and Hypervisor Manager application, but deleted it from QSM not long ago.
The applications provided by QSAN are indeed easy to use. The backup application can manage the snapshot scheduling, and can fix the device data to any remote device that meets RSYNC and Amazon S3, Alibaba OSS and Hicloud S3 cloud account. It can use the XMirror service to copy the folder between the XCubenas devices, while the Cloud Sync App and Dropbox, OneDrive and Google drive.
QSAN fans will like free XINSIGHT applications, which provide central management for all its AFA, NAS and San Eppliances. Run on any network service Windows The host, its web console provides all activities, storage, use and alarm notification, and an overview of each device management console.
The performance of more than 2.5GBE is very good.
The share that is mapped to a one Dell PowerEdge R760XS Windows Server 2022 host returns 2.3Gbits/SEC and 2.2GBits/SEC for IMETER order and random reading and writing tests. XN5104R provides the same results in our 2.5GBE IP SAN test. For the latter, we link to our 1TB ISCSI target through dual 2.5GBE MPIO, and record the pressure of 4.6Gbits/SEC and 4.2GBits/SEC, while the random operation is maintained at 4.6Gbits/Sec/SEC/SEC/SEC/Sec/SEC/ SEC/SEC/SEC/SEC. Second
Small and medium -sized enterprises with great potential expansion of rack NAS equipment for good value will find a lot of things for QSAN’s XCUBENAS XN5104R.
It inspires the application, but it has great performance in 2.5GBE, and QSAN’s QSM software can provide excellent data integrity and storage management functions.
