TerraMaster TD2 Thunderbolt 3 2-bay DAS Review

To test real-life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

100GB data file.
60GB iso image.
60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of .png, raw and .jpeg images).
10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).
5GB (1.5bn pixel) photo.
BluRay Movie.
21GB 8K Movie demos.
11GB 4K Raw Movie Clips (8 MP4V files).
4.25GB 3D Printer File Folder (mostly .STL).
1GB AutoCAD File Folder (.dwg and .dxf).

The TD2 Thunderbolt 3 had no problems dealing with our real-life file transfer tests in either single disk mode or in the tested RAID arrays. The larger files were dealt with much more efficiently than the small bity files as can be seen by the difference in transfer rate between the contents of the 60GB Steam. 50GB file and Audio folders compared to the other tests.

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