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Creating shares with the N4200PRO is not difficult either. All you have to do is click the “Add” button, name your share, provide a description, and choose whether it is browse-able, whether it is public, and if you want to enforce a Quota or not. You can set the permissions for each folder by user or by group after the share has been created by dragging either the user or the group to Deny, Read Only, or Writable.
Outside of all the exciting things the N5200XXX brings to the table, there is one feature that the NAS needs to handle well – serving up files. The unit can be setup a few different ways depending on your initial configuration with regards to things like Jumbo Frames, Network Teaming, and RAID Setup. Our configuration in the Lab is as follows:
N5200XXX
- 5 x HDS5C3020ala632 2TB SATA 6.0Gb/s HDDs in RAID 5
- Single Network Interface
Bench rig:
- Gigabyte 880GA-UD3H
- AMD Phenom II X4 965
- 2x2GB Patriot Sector 5 PC3-12800
- Seagate 500GB ST3500630AS
- BitFenix Colossus (click to read our review)
- BFG LS-450
- Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
In House Server:
- Gigabyte GA-EP45UD3LR
- Intel Core 2 Duo E7400
- 2x2GB Corsair XMS2 CM2X2048-6400C5
- Hitachi HDS721010KLA 1TB HDD SATA 3.0Gb/s (OS Drive)
- 5x Hitachi HDS72202ALA330 2TB SATA 3.0Gb/s (Hardware RAID 5)
- Lian Li PC 75B
- OCZ GameXStream 850W PSU
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 2x 120mm Antec Fans
- 4x 80mm Panaflo Fans
Network
- D-Link DGS-2208 Gigabit Switch
- Cat5e everywhere
For testing the transfer speed of the NAS we really didn’t do anything fancy. Our benchmark was transferring a 46.6GB Blu-Ray ISO (Avatar) from the N5200XXX to our workstation and back. We just initiated the file transfer and watched the networking tab in Windows Task Manager and the Bandwidth Usage Tab in the Resource Monitor for the NAS. We experienced around a 71.7 MB/s to the NAS and 65.99 MB/s from the NAS to the workstation.
For more on our Avatar Benchmark please see our Benchmarking application: COD Benchmarking Utility
