Thecus N2310 2-bay NAS Review

1. Introduction2. Thecus N2310: Packaging and Bundle3. Thecus N2310: Design and Features4. Thecus N2310: Installation and User Interface5. Testing Methodology and Performance6. Closing Thoughts7. View All Pages

In our testing of the Thecus N2310 we decided to focus predominantly on real world testing as we feel it will give users a good idea of the performance they can expect.  We connected the N2320 to our Tenda N60 Gigabit Router to alleviate any bandwidth concerns.  This was  connected directly to our client laptop, a Dell Inspiron 15, which features a Realtek PCIe Gigabit Network Card.  We tested the unit with a single Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM Hard Drive (ST3000DM001).

We tested the real world transfer rates by uploading and then downloading two test folders.  The first contained nine large MKV files which fill 10.1 GB in total, with the second containing 500 MB of smaller mixed files, with 180 files in total.  We measured the amount of time taken to upload and download these folders and then calculated the transfer rate by that.

As we can see the real world transfer rates are quite reasonable with the larger files, although things slow down quite a bit with the smaller ones. More expensive NAS systems will deal with mixed files faster, but at this price point we see no major issues with overall performance.

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