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About Author: Franklin

Website: http://www.synology.com
Description: Franklin Hua, Technical Marketing Manager, has been with Synology since 2006 and is focused with topics for SMB/Enterprise IT administrators, or topics scientific in nature. Franklin has majored in Computer Science, and this academic background is coupled with decades of experience of building, repairing computers, and administrating SOHO/SMB networks for several different clients. During his free time, Franklin enjoys what Puget Sound region has to offer and craft arts, including glass arts and woodworking.

Posts by Franklin

How to measure IOPS for VMware

Posted by Franklin on May 22, 2013 | No Comments | 4,162 views
Executive Summary This article, intended towards IT Professionals, is a follow up towards my previous article, How to measure IOPS for Windows will be covering how to measure IOPS consumption...
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Find an Ideal IOPs configuration for your Business Storage with the XS+

Posted by Franklin on April 17, 2013 | No Comments | 4,533 views
Overview This article will discuss and analyze the IOPS performance difference of the RS10613xs+ under varied internal storage drives or with a variable iSCSI Storage configuration. Scenario As part of...
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How to measure IOPS for Windows

Posted by Franklin on April 3, 2013 | 11 Comments | 10,085 views
Overview This article will provide a basic overview for IT Professionals to measure the IOPS Consumption load being experienced by their Windows application server. Information acquired using from this measurement...
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10Gb Ethernet Technology for Small Medium Business Storage, the XS+ with Intel SSDs

Posted by Franklin on March 8, 2013 | 5 Comments | 8,935 views
Overview This post will discuss how a Small Medium Business (SMB) can use and appreciate affordable 10Gb Ethernet technology for their growing storage network. Problem: How to Maximize Bandwidth for...
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High Availability – System Failover for Small Businesses

Posted by Franklin on October 10, 2012 | 20 Comments | 28,632 views
Overview This post will demonstrate the abilities of the upcoming Synology High Availability via video demonstration at Interop New York City 2012, and display the network diagram for how this...
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How to Determine IOPS for Mac OS X

Posted by Franklin on August 15, 2012 | 2 Comments | 8,876 views
Overview Following up on my previous article of IOPS: Performance Capacity Planning Explained”, this post will cover how to determine IOPS from Mac OS X. Situation A question that I’m...
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Which hard drive is best for my Synology DiskStation NAS?

Posted by Franklin on June 28, 2012 | 45 Comments | 72,943 views
Overview This blog post will explain some of the major detailed differences between various hard disk driveRef: 1 (or hard drive, “HDD”) classes and technologies available on the market, as...
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PC File Server vs. NAS

Posted by Franklin on October 19, 2011 | 34 Comments | 49,837 views
Overview This article will discuss the options available to an IT Admin to replace their existing PC File Server with a Synology DiskStation, a modern PC File Server, or a...
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IOPS: How much performance you need for SMB or Enterprise?

Posted by Franklin on September 9, 2011 | 6 Comments | 13,145 views
Overview In this post, I’ll be talking about performance data from the DiskStations and RackStations which I have tested – and how to apply this data to the world. IOPS...
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IOPS: Performance Capacity Planning Explained

Posted by Franklin on July 22, 2011 | 11 Comments | 59,158 views
Overview In this post, I’ll be discussing how to plan storage performance capacity via IOPS. Situation Let say as an IT Admin, you’re presented with a storage migration task, or...
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