Evaluating NAS Units with Solution-Based Benchmarks
 

Recently, I had the opportunity to visit a leading NAS vendor and provide some insights on how we evaluate NAS units. In particular, the talk dealt with the importance of NAS units in real-world applications and how to model them from a benchmarking perspective.

Meanwhile, as the timing of this talk overlaps with some of our upcoming NAS reviews, we decided to open up the presentation to our readers as well in order to give all of you a look at some of what goes on behind the scenes here at AnandTech. We don't often get the opportunity (or time) to write much about our benchmarking selection process, so for us this is a chance to discuss a bit more about how we put together our tests. In addition to serving as a reference for the testing methodology in our reviews, we wanted to present the rationale behind our benchmarking routines and give you guys a chance to offer some feedback in the process.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9750/e...sed-benchmarks