My new TS-1635 arrived!!!

[dolbyman]

wonder what the real life performance of this ARM powered unit will be

[dolbyman]

Not the best review but it gives a good base line: http://www.techspot.com/review/1324-qnap-ts-1635/

Well that test is kinda useless if you hit the gigabit transfer barrier for sequential read/write on 1GbE... they should have tested it with the 10GbE ports

The 4K video transfer test saturates the Gigabit Ethernet connection without the aid of an SSD cache so adding one wasn't particularly useful here. Perhaps if we were able to take advantage of the 10GbE networking we might have seen some gains here, sadly right now we don't have the required equipment.

It's like car magazine saying.. "The new Ferrari model is super fast .. we think .. because we drove it on a normal street .. speedlimits and stuff .. sorry"

[kd6icz]

I am absolutely fascinated how QNAP can manufacture this unit for under $1300 US. 12 SATA bays, 4 SSD bays, built in dual port 10G SFP+. It seems impossible.
If this supported a 12G SAS expander card instead of the horrible UX-800P, this product would be nearly perfect.
I hope that you keep us up to date with its performance.
May I ask - what QTS version did it ship with ? 4.2.3 ?
Thanks -
Bob Zelin

That was why I bought it! I was looking at the 8 bay and I thought.... For $350 more I can have this???? Why not!?!

I did some research on the SoC and it's specifically designed for up to a 16 SATA3 NAS with integrated 10Gbps Ethernet controllers.

I'm hoping that since the SoC is purpose built with everything inside and the fact I'm running nothing extra it will be perfect for my use. But I will confirm my findings once all RAID initialization processes complete. Should be 100% by Saturday.

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[kd6icz]

The one thing I noticed is how much room there is for a PCIe card! Room wise you could fit the largest double slot graphics card on the market! Of course, the hardware wouldn't be able to support or even use something like that.

However, it would be nice if it would support some type of hardware transcoder card for Plex! There are low power cards out there that only need a few watts of power and a PCIe x1 slot.

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[kd6icz]

One question I have is about an error I'm getting on one of my disks.

It's popped up twice. Once about 10 minutes after formatting and just now.

It's says "Host Disk 10 medium error. Please run a bad block scan on this drive or replace it if the error persists."

So I looked at my options for that disk and, first, it says everything is GOOD with the disk. I ran the quick test which never finished even after 9 hours. I don't know where to find the bad block test.... Any suggestions? I'm not sure I'm believing this error since it only pops up in the Warnings but not in the actual disk health information.

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[dolbyman]

i think bad block is the full test..the whole surface of the drive is tested for read and write issues

but if even the short one fails ..it might be a doa drive

anything I/O related on dmesg ?

[kd6icz]

anything on dmesg ?

I don't know what that is?


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[dolbyman]

you need to ssh into the device

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmesg

[kd6icz]

Oh geez... Not a Linux guy. I'll see if I can make sense of it.

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[dolbyman]

otherwise you can pull out the drive and test it in a computer ... you might have to do that anyways for rma eligibility (as part of the process, some manufacturers have you test the drive in a desktop suite first)

[kd6icz]

OK. Should I let the box finish the synchronization or just pull it?

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[kd6icz]

Since there's no data on it yet. I'm going to remove the volume and swap the drive with another drive in the box and make sure the error follows the drive.

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[AlastairStevenson]

Check the SMART detail (not the summary) in Storage Manager, Disk Health.
Look for any non-zero counts in attributes associated with errors, they are fairly obvious.
The usual one is 'reallocated sectors' , ie bad blocks that have been marked as such and swapped for a spare.

[Spider99]

Another review - not quite as glowing - but with 10gb performance info - some errors in the article but you get a bit more info

Interesting to see what the Arm CPU cant do - jbod, vm's etc

http://www.itpro.co.uk/nas/27841/qnap-ts-1635-review

[kd6icz]

When I swapped drives 9 and 10 the issue followed the drive. This time the S.M.A R.T. page DID show a warning on 'relocated sectors'. So I guess I'll be opening an RMA with WD.... I really hate 'recertified' drives!

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