| This is another in the series documenting my setup of a new home server with the Linksprite pcDuino3 Nano. A listing for the entire series can be found here. More information on the pcDuino3 Nano can be found at Linksprite’s website and the pcDuino website. |
Last week I got a comment on my pcDuino3 Nano – NAS or ??? posting where the commenter had found the pcDuino3 Nano unusable as a NAS due to slow performance and lockups. As I hadn’t done any testing I decided to run some tests.
For testing I used OpenMediaVault running on Debian Wheezy. The test machine and the pcDuino3 Nano were connected via Gig LAN ports. On the pcDuino2 Nano I was using a 2.5 inch SATA drive rated at 72000 RPM and 3.0 Gb/s. For running the tests I used the Intel NAS Performance Toolkit.
I ran 8 passes of the full test suite. The system never locked up and response time was in line with what I would expect from the board. It will not win any competitions for speed but it is quite usable.
For comparison I ran 4 passes of the full test suite on my Raspberry PI OpenMediaServer. The Pi also ran all the tests successfully but with much slower response times.
Below is a summary of the results of the tests.
| pcDiuno3 Nano | Raspberry PI | |
| HD Video Playback | 18.1 | 4.1 |
| 2x HD Video Playback | 16.8 | 4.3 |
| 4x HD Video Playback | 16.1 | 4.5 |
| HD Video Record | 24.4 | 9.4 |
| HD Playback and Record | 23.0 | 5.9 |
| Content Creation | 3.9 | 1.2 |
| Office Productivity | 25.3 | 12.9 |
| File copy to NAS | 13.1 | 6.0 |
| File copy from NAS | 30.3 | 3.9 |
| Dir copy to NAS | 3.4 | 2.8 |
| Dir copy from NAS | 6.6 | 2.9 |
| Photo Album | 4.1 | 2.2 |
I am working on some posts about configuring OpenMediaVault on the pcDuino3 Nano. I should have them posted in a week or two.
No comments:
Post a Comment