Thecus N5200 NAS Review
Performance: Overlapped I/O
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Below you can see the results for the “Overlapped I/O” test using 128 KB blocks, given in KB/s. As explained, the program was configured to use four parallel operations.
Here Thecus N5200 achieved a terrific performance, the same as if you were reading data from a RAID0 or a single drive shared from a regular PC. Its performance was impressively 25% higher than if you were reading data from one of the disks installed on your local PC!
Thecus N5200 achieved a read performance 249% higher than Thecus N3200 and 404% higher than Promise SmartStor NS4300.
On write performance Thecus N5200 only lost to the performance achieved by hard disk drives installed locally. It was 89% faster than a single drive shared on a regular PC, 128% faster than a RAID0 system shared on a regular PC, 153% faster than Promise SmartStor NS4300 and 166% faster than Thecus N3200.