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We tested midrange NAS devices in our Green Bay, Wis., Real-World Labs with
SourceForge's Iometer 2003.5.10. We used 10 2.4-GHz Pentium 4 client machines,
with network connectivity courtesy of an Extreme Networks Summit7i switch and a
Cisco Catalyst 6500 with a copper Gigabit Ethernet card. Five machines were
hooked to our north subnet and five to our south subnet. On each NAS, one
Gigabit Ethernet NIC was connected to each segment. An 11th machine served
solely as our Iometer console.

Our Iometer tests gauged CIFS (Common Internet File System) performance and NFS
(Network File System) performance.