QNAP TS-328 3-bay NAS Review

1. Introduction2. QNAP TS-328 / Packaging / Bundle3. QNAP TS-328 / Design4. QTS 4.3.45. Usability6. Testing Methodology7. ATTO Disk Benchmark8. Intel NASPT.9. IOMETER10. Encryption Performance11. Real Life File Testing12. Power13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

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 a MB/s and time taken for each transfer, the data is written from and read back to a 240GB SSD.

100GB data file.
60GB iso image.
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.
5GB (1.5m pixel) image.
BluRay Movie.

The TS-328 showed good consistency throughout our real life data transfer tests. Having said that there were a couple of times when the RAID 5 read performance dipped a little compared to RAID 1. In the 10GB Audio file transfer there was a 10MB/s difference between the RAID 1 and 5 read performance and in the 5GB Photo transfer the difference was 9.6MB/s.

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