Thecus N7510 7-Bay NAS Review

For content creation, Intel have simulated access to via video creation applications. This is made up of 98 files with 12MB reads and 14MB writes in varying sizes of blocks. The activity is predominantly non-sequential with the majority of access time made up of writing to the drives.  There are quiet periods of read/write activity interrupted with busy periods to present a difficult workload on the drives.

The varying sized blocks of data slows any array of drives right down and like we found with the playback tests, the speed variance that we experience as rather small with only 2MB/s separating the fastest (RAIDo) and slowest arrays (RAID6).