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Synology DiskStation DS1520+ 5-bay NAS

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Synology quote Sequential throughput figures for the DS1520+ at up to 451.33MB/s for reads and 449.52MB/s for writes but this is with all four Ethernet ports being used in Link Aggregation mode. With a single Gigabit connection, we got an average of 118MB/s for both reads and writes.

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