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We are testing the Synology Diskstation DS1511+ within our gigabit network which is pretty much as good as you will get for a home or small office environment. It is a mixed network with several 1GBit switches for ultimate performance.
Reference Test PC:
Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 4ghz
Storage: Kingston 128GB SSD V+ Series
Motherboard: Asus Rampage II Gene
Graphics: Geforce GTX285 2GB
Memory: Corsair Dominator 1600mhz @2000mhz
Network: 2x Belkin 16 Port Gigabit Switches
Operating System: Windows 7 64 Bit Ultimate
Firstly we perform a native network test to ascertain pure data throughput. For the first series of tests we are using two mechanical hard drives configured in a RAID 0 configuration. On the next page we will test Link Aggregration speeds with SSD technology.
Data throughput is pretty much at the limit for a single link, outperforming the previous leader – the DS1010+
Our local PC has a fast Kingston SSD as the main drive and we are using it to ensure no bottlenecks occur on this side of the testing. Our PC is hooked up to the network and we transfer a 10GB MKV file from the PC to the NAS systems. All three NAS systems are using dual drive mechanical Raid 0 configurations.
This is a fantastic result for a single link NAS configuration, peaking at 112 MB/s. The DS1010+ is 3 MB/s slower in this mode.
Both 1010+ and 1511+ are way out in front with 130MB/s and 128 MB/s respectively. We will be interested to see later if we can push this higher with a link aggregration configuration and SSD drives.
Next we created a folder of files, 500mb/s in size with a variety of data , from small database documents to larger jpgs and bmps. We expect to pay a slight penalty as we are using Jumbo frames set to 9k, however performance should still be good.
Class leading performance from the DS1511+ outperforming our previous class leader, the DS1010+.
