Asustor AS3104T 4-bay NAS review

1. Introduction2. Asustor AS3104T - Packaging & Bundle3. Asustor AS3104T - Design4. Asustor AS3104T - ADM OS5. Testing Methodology6. CrystalDiskMark7. ATTO Disk Benchmark8. Intel NASPT9. IOMETER10. Real Life File Transfers11. Power12. Closing Thoughts13. View All Pages

Intel’s NASPT (NAS Performance Toolkit ) is a benchmark tool designed to enable direct measurement of home network attached storage (NAS) performance. NASPT uses a set of real world workload traces (high definition video playback and recording, video rendering/content creation and office productivity) gathered from typical digital home applications to emulate the behavior of an actual application.

We’ve used some of the video and office apps results to highlight a NAS device’s performance.
HD Video Playback
This trace represents the playback of a 1.3GB HD  video file at 720p using Windows Media Player. The files are accessed sequentially with 256kB user level reads.
4x HD Playback
This trace is built from four copies of the Video Playback test with around 11% sequential accesses.
HD Video Record
Trace writes an 720p MPEG-2 video file to the NAS.  The single 1.6GB file is written sequentially using  256kB accesses.
HD Playback and Record
Tests the NAS with simultaneous reads and writes of  a 1GB HD Video file in the 720p format.
Content Creation
This trace simulates the creation of a video file using both video and photo editing software using a mix of file types and sizes. 90% of the operations are writes to the NAS with around 40% of these being sequential.
Office Productivity
A trace of typical workday operations. 2.8GB of data made up of 600 files of varying lengths is divided equally between read and writes. 80% of the accesses are sequential.
Photo Album
This simulates the opening and viewing of 169 photos (aprrox 1.2GB). It tests how the NAS deals with a multitude of
small files.

The AS3104T shows a very good turn of speed in most of the arrays, generally scoring well over 100MB/s in most of the tests. The glaring exception is RAID 6 where the performance lags behind all the other arrays in all the tests.

When it comes to dealing with everyday files of the Office Productivity test, the best performance comes when the NAS is in RAID 6 mode. The Content Creation and Photo Albums tests show a good deal of consistency across all the arrays.

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