Hello Walter,
Thank you for sharing the review, but as tech lover, I'd have loved to find something more.
I'd love to see what's in the box. There are no inside pictures, and no mention of the components used to build this hero. I'm thinking to the internal airflow, to the mainboard, to the drives and to the RAID host bus adapter (and its management software).
18TB of RAID5 means about 13.8TB net, and a problem of RAID consistency would be a disaster.
I'm surprised from the result of the RAID benchmark. Usually even the most advanced RAID HBA can't multiply perfectly the performances of a single drive. 18TB means 6x3TB 7200RPM drives. 1310/6 means that each drive can sustain at least 218MBps; I haven't find any 7200rpm able to do it.
Moreover, in my opinion, the AJA System Test is not the only (and best) way to test an array. In the video editing we use several streams of video so it is important to know what is the RAID capability to read several files at the same time. For this reason I use an old and free tool called "Nbench". It allows to specify the number of concurrent threads and get speed result from each one (max number about 20, max file size 20x999MB i.e. about 20GB).
I hope you are you in time to integrate the review.
Many thanks and greetings from Italy,
Paolo.Castellano@ivs.it
http://www.ivsEdits.com
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