Thecus N4100 Brings Storage Space To Your LAN

Test Setup

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Hardware
Processor2x Intel Xeon, 3.6 GHz1 MB L2 Cache (Nocona)
MotherboardAsus NCL-DSIntel E7520 ChipsetBIOS 1005
Memory2x 512 MB DDR2-400 Corsair ECC RegisteredCL 3-3-3-10
Controller PATA/USBIntel 82801EB (ICH5)
Controller SCSIAdaptec AIC-7902B Ultra320
Controller SATASilicon Image Sil3124 4xPort SATA Controller
Graphics CardATI RageXL , 8 MB
NetworkBroadcom BMC5721 PCIe Gigabit LAN Controller
OSWindows Server 2003Service Pack 1
Benchmarks
Performance measurementsRobocopy 1.96
Drivers & Settings
Graphics DriverWindows Default Driver
IDE DriverIntel INF Drivers 7.0.0.1025
DirectX version9.0c
Resolution1024x768, 32 Bit, 85 Hz

Benchmark Results : Real-World Data Throughput

Since it is very difficult to use conventional benchmarking software on network drives, we opted for a small copying program. Our test consisted of copying several 1 GB files from a fast dedicated server to the N4100 and vice versa.