Benchmarks: NASPT Continued
The NAS Performance Toolkit simulates various workloads to measure single-user performance. Office Productivity is a read and write test involving hundreds of small files, File Copy from NAS is a read test that uses a single 4.3GB transfer, while Directory Copy to NAS transfers a folder of 2,833 files using mostly 64KB writes.
Different workloads challenge the servers in unique ways, and the Thecus N4310 tends to be at its best when working with larger sequential transfers. Hammering the NAS with thousands of small writes, as is the case in the Directory Copy test, reveals the limitations of the underlying hardware.
During use, we found the N4310 to be plenty fast when serving data or streaming multimedia content, though some tasks can be laborious. Creating the initial RAID 5 array, for example, took the best part of 24 hours with four 4TB drives.