Nas Storage Performance

We'll also look with a file-explorer-copy, Atto and Anvil storage utilities to see what performance is like. Basically we make a network share and measure the storage unit. 

File Copy

The most basic and simple test anyone can perform. We simply drop a compressed MKV file onto the NAS. As you can see, the result is almost 110 MB/s writes at the end of the file copy sequence.

Above you can see the performance with a simple file copy. 109 MB/sec towards the NAS and 111 MB/sec from the NAS.

Atto Disk Benchmark

One of the finest tools available to measure storage performance is ATTO. I love it to death as it is so reliable and produces such accurate results. The great thing about ATTO is that we can test with predefined block sizes. So we can test with a 32 MB sequence of 4 KB files, yet also 32 MB in 1 MB files. This gives us an excellent scope of overall performance with small and large files.
 

ATTO back up the performance numbers as  well, both reads and writes hover at 110~120 MB/sec.

Anvil's Storage Utilities

Anvil's Storage Utilities is a powerful tool that was designed in order to provide you with a simple way to evaluate the read and write performance of your Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive. The benchmark tool helps you monitor and check the response time of your unit as well as view the system information collected using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

You can download this software here and try it out for yourself.   

And with Anvil we see 112 Mb/sec reads on sequential with 105 MB/sec writes. 

All these numbers make total sense, as data is transferred over a 1 Gpbs network connection, which maxes out at such data-rates after deduction of error-correction, QOS etc.