NAS Storage Performance Benchmarks

Performance at Gigabit and 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet

The measurement images we will provide cover around 80% of the unit's performance capabilities and options. Let's evaluate its effectiveness. Sequential performance is the most important statistic here, with 4K Que depth 1 and 1 thread being the worst-case situation when dealing with thousands of little files and no queue (unrealistic).

The NAS operates on connections of 1000 and 2500 Mbit/s (Gigabit speed). Performance should be in the region of 100 to 120 MB/sec at 1 GigE and close to 275 to 300 MB/sec at 2.5 GigE. We have already moved to a 10 Gbit/s infrastructure in out workplace. In addition, the NAS lacks a PCIe expansion port for installing a 10Gbps-capable network interface; hence, this is not a possibility. Link aggregation would bring this device to 5 Gbps, but, it takes a great deal of hardware and OS support, so it is no longer a realistic choice; hence, we have discontinued testing. With the power of NVMe SSDs that may be installed, we do miss a 5 GigE or 10 GigE on a single Ethernet connector.