Synology DiskStation DS1520+ 5-bay NAS

1. Introduction2. Synology DiskStation DS1520+ / Packaging & Bundle3. Synology DiskStation DS1520+ / Design4. DSM 5. Usability6. Testing Methodology7. ATTO Disk Benchmark8. Intel NASPT9. IOMETER10. Encryption Performance11. Workload Scenarios12. PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark13. Real Life File Testing14. Power15. Closing Thoughts16. 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 DS1520+ displays strong performance for all three test traces across RAID 0, 6 and 10 arrays but in RAID's 1 & 5 it does seem to struggle a little with the tests.

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