Thecus TopTower N6850 6-Bay NAS Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
Last of all is a test based around a photo album. When a photo album is viewed on screen, only the images that you see are loaded from the drive and so when you scroll through the album, the new images have to be fetched and read. The album here contains 169 photos with varying file sizes based on the size, quality and detail in the image. Reading the files in a photo album puts an unusual read load upon the drive as the metadata is read, a thumbnail constructed and finally the image viewed.
In the last of the NASPT tests, like we found with content creation, whilst the striped arrays are favoured a little more than the pure parity arrays, the spread of results are quite close ranging from 12.1MB/s under RAID1 to 16MB/s under RAID0 and 50.
