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The Synology DS1517+ performed well in all our real life transfer tests. During the 60GB Steam folder test it got very close to the 100MB/s mark for reads and over 80MB/s for writes for all arrays except RAID 6 where the performance dropped off for both reads and writes. It was the same story in the 50GB File folder transfer with pretty good performance across the arrays apart from RAID 6.
Somehow the benchmark results do not make a lot of sense to me ie looking at the throughput benchmarks most of them hover around 100 MB/sec despite the different RAID set-ups ie one would expect for example a noticeable difference between RAID-0 and RAID-5….
My guess is that you connected the NAS and/or workstation via a standard 1 Gigabit Ethernet to the Network and therefore the LAN became the bottleneck at around 100 MB/sec ie 1 Gigabit …
In a 10 Gigabit LAN with 5 HDs installed I would expect that you should get close to 400 – 500 Megybytes/sec (at least thats my experience with Synology although I am not familiar with this specific model, so there might be otehr bottleneckes in the specific set-up, also 10 Gigabit needs a little bit of tuning until you get good throughput).