Testing (continued):

Atto Disk Benchmark v2.41:

In the final phase of performance testing, I mapped the network storage devices to create drive letters for each on the Windows desktop system. I then ran ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.41 to see what things looked like. The test was run in a fairly standard configuration; with a transfer size from 0.5 to 8192KB, a total length of 256MB, and the queue depth at 10. Read and write results are provided in terms of MB/s, and higher is better. A small sampling of the many results provided are shown in the charts below.

At the lower end of the scale we have 64KB transfers, and the read results are shown below. The DS415play absolutely dominates this test, beating the closest competitor (the DS414j) by close to 30MB/s. These results for small files makes me second guess the real world results again, despite those results being repeated multiple times.



While the DS415play hit 115MB/s on the read side of things at 64KB, it didn't do too poorly on the write side of things either. Almost 114MB/s is good enough to beat the other storage servers on hand with ease.



Moving up to the top of the file transfer sizes used in ATTO's benchmark, we have results for 8192KB (8MB) file transfers. The read results are shown below, where we see a very impressive result of just over 115MB/s for the DS415play.



The last set of results to cover are for the write speeds achieved with 8MB files. The DS415play comes out on top again, this time pushing things past 116MB/s.