IOMeter is another open source synthetic benchmarking tool which is able to simulate the various loads placed on hard drive and solid state drive technology.
The 2.5GbE connection shows its worth in our backup/restore test. In the backup test it bumps the transfer rate up by 87MB/s for RAID 0 and 79MB/s for RAID 1, while we saw increases of 122MB/s (RAID 0) and 96MB/s (RAID 1) when restoring the data.