QNAP TS-1677X-16G 16-Bay NAS Review

We tested the QNAP TS-1677X with a number of scenarios that it may face in the real world. The settings for these scenarios are as follows.

File Server
512MB file size, 16KB Block size, 80% Read 20% Write 100% Random, I/O queue depth 128

Web Server
1GB file size, 16KB Block size, 100% Read 0% Write 100% Random, I/O queue depth 64

Database
2GB file size, 4KB Block size, 90% Read 10% Write, 90% Random, 10% Sequential, I/O queue depth 128

Media Streaming
160GB file size, 64K Block size, 98% Read  2% Write, 100% Sequential, Boundary: 4K, I/O depth 64, Threads/Workers: 8

Video On Demand
160GB file size, 128K Block size, 100% Read,  100% Random, Boundary: 4K, I/O depth 512, Threads/Workers: 8

Digital Video Surveillance
160GB file size, 128K Block size, 90% Read 10% Write,  100% Sequential, Boundary: 512K, I/O depth 64 Threads/Workers: 8

While the File and Web server tests produced much faster average speeds when using a 10GbE connection, the Database test produced results that were a lot closer between the two connection speeds.

The fastest performance in the second group of workload scenarios came in the Video On Demand test with the SSDs in a RAID 6 array with a stunning 1,194.11MB/s. Not far behind was the RAID 6 performance in the media streaming test at 1,097.36MB/s.

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