Thecus TopTower N6850 6-Bay NAS Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
HD Video playback is a read test, where a single 2Gb file is read in 256kB blocks sequentially from the drive. This simulates where a 720p HD video is being watched across the network to a media player on the other end.
From the go, RAID50 show its potential, almost doubling the speed that we achieved from a standard RAID5 array and thus showing the benefite of RAID0 in its simplest form. The RAID50 array also pipped RAID0 to the top mark with a speed of 104.1MB/s against 103.9MB/s.