Asustor Flashstor 6 Gen 2 (FS6806X) NAS Review

1. Introduction2. Asustor Flashstor 6 Gen2 / Packaging & Bundle3. Asustor Flashstor 6 Gen 2 / Design4. Asustor Install5. Asustor ADM6. Testing Methodology7. ATTO Disk Benchmark8. CrystalDiskMark 8 9. NASPT10. NAS Performance Test11. Encyption performance12. Workload Scenarios13. PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark14. Real Life File Testing15. Power Consumption16. Closing Thoughts17. View All Pages

The PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark has been designed to test drives that are used for storing files rather than applications. You can also use this test with NAS drives, USB sticks, memory cards, and other external storage devices.
The Data Drive Benchmark uses 3 traces, running 3 passes with each trace.

Trace 1. Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, in to the target drive (write test).
Trace 2. Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
Trace 3. Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test)

Here we show the total bandwidth performance for each of the individual traces, the total average access time and the overall bandwidth result for the test run.

The Flashstor 6 Gen 2 handles PCMark's 10 Data Drive Benchmark very well. There isn't much to choose between any of the arrays in the three individual test traces and that pans out looking at the overall bandwidth figures for the test with only 14MB/s separating the fastest array (RAID 5) from the slowest (RAID 10).

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