NAS Storage Performance Benchmarks

Our network performance measurement images 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).

NASes depending on model can operate on connections of 1000, 2500, 5000 and 10.000 Mbit/s. 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 our workplace. With the power of NVMe SSDs that may be installed, we love a 10 GigE on a single Ethernet connector.

Sustained performance on the tested NAS was good, however Q1 results where definitely a bit lower opposed to recently tested other models. This could be the SoC, or just the SATA3 unit we used. Overall though if you'd copy a large file to the NAs over 2.5 GigE ethernet, you'll be writing at roughly 290 MB/sec.