Encryption
Security is an ever growing concern and encryption is a great step to achieve this. This page will provide a comparison between encrypted data and a normal single drive and what impact it will have on the performance. Not all NAS feature Full volume and Shared Folder encryption, but I will test what is available.
Shared Folder Encryption
Encrypting a single shared folder does affect performance quite a bit and we see drops in performance of up to 70% in some of the tests. We still get results that you can work effectively from.
I have a Asustor NAS 1002 . Recently I have had two WD purples fail on this device within 3 months. (both less than 18 months old). I have been carrying out a lot of disk intensive operations (that’s what purples are designed for) and I can’t help thinking that this system just cannot cope with it. Anyone else have any Disk problems with the Asustor 1002T??
Hey Fred
In theory, a NAS shouldn’t be able to kill the drives like that – at least not in comparison to other NAS devices or PCs that would put the same strain on the drives as you had on your AS1002T.
I’ve recently had several WD RED 6TB drives fail on me, but they’re also from the first production of the 6TB series. No idea if there is a correlation there or if it’s just normal wear and tear combined with general luck.
I’ve not heard of other people having trouble with the unit, except a few comments that it’s underpowered for the needs people have of their NAS’. But yea, it’s a budget device with a relatively slow CPU, so that’s a given for enthusiasts and other heavy users.
Hi! I am looking into to buy this or its upgraded sister 1004 v2 – my primary goal is to use it as my music library – so reading this there should be no problem stream hi res audio files (stereo or multi channel) to an Nvidia Shield and over to AVR and speakers? I plan on letting the Shield do the heavy work (I have Kodi installed there) and just want the files sent to the Shield.