Buffalo TeraStation TS3210DN 2-Bay NAS Review

1. Introduction2. Buffalo TeraStation TS3210DN Packaging / Bundle3. Buffalo TeraStation TS3210DN - Design4. Buffalo OS5. Buffalo TeraStation TS3210DN - Usability6. Testing Methodology7. CrystalDiskMark8. ATTO Disk Benchmark9. Intel NASPT10. IOMETER11. Real Life File Testing12. Power13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

We tested the TeraStation TS3210DN as it was delivered, with two 1TB WD Red (WD10EFRX 5,400rpm, 64MB cache) drives pre-installed. These were then tested in the two RAID arrays supported by the NAS, RAID 0 and 1.

Software:
Atto Disk Benchmark.
CrystalMark 3.0.3.
IOMeter.
Intel NASPT.

To test real life file/folder performance we use a number of different file/folder combinations to test the read and write performance of the NAS device.  Using the FastCopy utility to get an MB/s and time taken for each transfer, the data is written from and read back to a 240GB SSD.

60GB Steam folder: 29,521 files.
50GB Files folder: 28,523  files.
12GB Movie folder: 24 files – mix of Blu-ray and 4K files.
10GB Photo folder: 621 files – mix of .png, .raw and .jpeg images.
10GB Audio folder: 1,483 files – mix of .mp3 and .flac files.

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