Asustor Lockerstor 4 (AS6604T) NAS Review - 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 300 MB/sec range for 2.5 GigE. In my office, we've already migrated towards a 10 Gbit/s infrastructure. The NAS also does not include a PCIe expansion slot for adding your own 10Gbps-capable network interface, so that is not an option. Link aggregation would get this unit towards 5 Gbps, unfortunately, it requires a lot of hardware and OS support, so it is not really a viable option in the year 2021 anymore ergo we halted testing that.  We do miss 5 GigE or 10 GigE on a single ethernet jack with the power of NVMe SSDs that can be installed.