Synology DiskStation DS118 1-bay NAS Review

1. Introduction2. Synology DiskStation DS1183. DSM OS4. Usability5. ATTO / CrystalDiskMark6. Backup / Restore7. Intel NASPT8. Real Life File Transfers9. Closing Thoughts10. View All Pages

To test real life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

100GB data file
60GB iso image
60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
50GB File 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 (1.5bn pixel) photo



The DS118 had no problems dealing with any of our real life file transfer tests with most tests topping the 100MB/s mark for both reads and writes.

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