NAS Performance Testing Methods

[Tears4Fears]

Hi everyone

I will doing comparisons and benchmarks in this personal project: Build Your Own NAS (BYON)

Appreciate if you can suggest some of the most recognized methods / applications to test NAS performance.

 

[Tears4Fears]

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How are above testing methods? It's from another thread.

 

[Gribber]

Build yr own nas with SHR? Huh?

EIther testing method imo is fine.

 

[Tears4Fears]

Build yr own nas with SHR? Huh?

EIther testing method imo is fine.

I want to use an agreed / standardized / recognized testing method so that there will be no dispute on the results.

 

[Tears4Fears]

No storage guru wants to help?

 

[Tears4Fears]

guess 90% of the guys here are synology fanboys and wouldn't help...

 

[Gribber]

guess 90% of the guys here are synology fanboys and wouldn't help...

seriously, don't understand what you are trying to prove here.

1. you already have the answer
2. google if you need to instead of expecting to be spoon fed and giving names just because you are not being entertained.

simply childish.

 

[quekky]

1. iometer (look at samples in PT - Home)
2. iozone
3. bonnie++
4. Passmark
5. CDM
6. ATTO
7. NAS performance tester

the 1st 4 is used more in commecial, last few is more for hobbyist
it'll be good if you include all of them

 

[Gribber]

1. iometer (look at samples in PT - Home)
2. iozone
3. bonnie++
4. Passmark
5. CDM
6. ATTO
7. NAS performance tester

the 1st 4 is used more in commecial, last few is more for hobbyist
it'll be good if you include all of them

 

[Tears4Fears]

1. iometer (look at samples in PT - Home)
2. iozone
3. bonnie++
4. Passmark
5. CDM
6. ATTO
7. NAS performance tester

the 1st 4 is used more in commecial, last few is more for hobbyist
it'll be good if you include all of them

This is more helpful.

 

[fribro]

i've tried if you copy files from network to pc and pc to network the read and write speeds might varies if have ssd hdd and mechanical hdd.

 

[CyberTron]

You might also want to benchmark the difference between buffer and unbuffered read and write. The test for unbuffered read/write, the data size used for the testing should be at least 2x the physical memory size.

 

[weap0nx]

I want to use an agreed / standardized / recognized testing method so that there will be no dispute on the results.

What he meant is how did you build your own NAS with Synology Hybrid Raid. Whereas I'm thinking why would anyone want to do that, DIY and then use SHR

 

[Vulpix]

Wah immediately start to call out synology fanboys in a thread like this. What is the relevance?

 

[Tears4Fears]

First draft of testing methods are out.
To be revised if necessary.

BYON - Test-methods-and-Setup

 

[Tears4Fears]

what do you guys think of the testing methods?

 

[Tears4Fears]

Updated 3.1 Testing methods


This is Draft V0.2
Change Revision
- Updates in red & bold.
- Added performance test for RAID 1.
- For performance test 3 - 6: CIFS / CrystalDiskMark, NAS Performance Tester, run tests twice to ensure consistency.

 

[Tears4Fears]

Testing is now finalized.

3.1 Test Methods and Setup

Any comments?