NAS Storage Performance Benchmarks

Performance at Gigabit and 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet

The performance measurement screenshots that we are about to show you cover like 80% of the unit capabilities and possibilities. Let's have a look at its performance. Sequential perf is the leading metric here, 4K Que depth 1 and 1 thread is your worst-case scenario with thousands of small files and no queue to deal with (unrealistic). 

The NAS is at work over 1000 and 2500 Mbit/s (Gigabit throughput) connections. Performance should be in the 100 to 120 MB/sec category at a single gigabit and close to 250~300 MB/sec range for 2.5 GigE. In my office, we've already migrated towards a 10 Gbit/s infrastructure. The NAS does not include a PCIe expansion slot for adding your own 10Gbps-capable network interface, so that is not an option. We do miss 5 GigE or 10 GigE on a single ethernet jack with the power of NVMe SSDs that can be installed but as you'll learn, the SoC can't handle such speeds anyway.

The write performance is certainly good enough. The read performance however is significantly slower than expected. We cross-checked this with the numbers from ASUSTOR and their own findings represent what we see here.