Thecus TopTower N6850 6-Bay NAS Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
In the directory copy to NAS test, a directory tree representing that of a typical commercially available office suite is copied to the NAS to trace the bulk copy of a complex directory. A total of 2833 files making up 247MB are moved but the file sizes vary considerably with an average size of 41.4kB. Due to the varying sizes of the files, only around 50% of the writes are sequential.
In a change to what we would expect, RAID0 didn’t favour as well this time around when it came to copying an entire directory to the NAS with a speed of 24.9MB/s. RAID10 and 50 are the arrays of choice with 29.3MB/s and 28.3MB/s respectively.
