Testing (continued):

Real World File Transfers - Small Files:

Small files are up next in this round of performance testing. Files such as documents, pictures, and digital music probably consist of a large portion of what people would want to back up or share. The small file transfer test involved moving a folder full of MP3 music files around the network. One main folder comprised of 10 sub-folders and a total of 198 MP3 files totaling 643MB was copied and pasted to the storage servers of interest. A reboot of the Windows desktop system was executed between each test, and different folders were used for reading and writing.

The chart below details the results for reading the collection of small files, where we see that the DS415+ is fast - but not the fastest. The WD Storage Server takes the top honors in this test, but the DS415+ is second.



Results for writing the set of small files is shown below, where the DS415+ again comes in second - but this time to the Thecus N5550.