Infrant ReadyNAS X6

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Infrant ReadyNAS X6

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Richard Poelling
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Infrant
Dec. 7, 2005

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First Looks

One of the most obvious things you will notice about the X6 is its diminutive size. Hard to think you could have 1 TB of data storage sitting in front of you in this little thing. It is this small size and high capacity which makes the X6 such a powerhouse. The heart of the X6 as well as other Infrant products is their RAIDiator 2 software. The X6 is actually running on a modified Linux kernel in comparison to some NAS devices which run on an embedded version of Windows 2003 Server. Because of this, the X6 will create EXT3 partitions on the newly created drives and will not be able to write on NTFS formatted drives.

On the front of the X6 is your power button as well as 4 status LEDs for each drive as well as a power LED. The main air intake is gracefully molded into a nice grill. To the rear of the device, we have the two USB ports as well as what appears to be an expansion slot. The Gigabit Ethernet port is also located to the rear as well as the power supply and the exhaust for the fan. The finish on the box is of good quality. I would not expect a poor paint job on a device in this price range.

On the Inside

Opening up the X6 reveals rather ordinary components. On one side, the power, and RAM is visible. This unit includes 256MB of DDR 333 RAM with 2.5 Latency. Even the power connector appears to be a standard ATX form factor. The cable management is also nicely done with the all the SATA connectors neatly labeled and bent to the right shape and location. Ventilation is provided by a cage blower to the rear which sucks air in from the front and routes it out the back. The CPU is also visible when you remove the drive bay. It is nice to know that this does not put out a lot of heat since there is an obvious lack of a major heat sink.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: First Looks
Page 3: Installation
Page 4: Hard Drives
Page 5: Services
Page 6: Testing
Page 7: Testing: DiskBench
Page 8: Testing: Iometer
Page 9: Quality, Security & Error Reporting
Page 10: Conclusion

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