Storage Devices
Noontec-TerraMaster D2-310: Direct Attached Storage with a kick.
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Testing Methodology and Benchmarks
| System Configuration | |
| Case | Cooler Master Cosmos II |
| CPU | AMD FX-8370E |
| Motherboard | ASRock 990FX Killer |
| Ram | 2 GB G.Skill F3-12800CL9q DDR3-1600 |
| USB 3.1 | Rosewill RC-509 |
| GPU | Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 |
| Hard Drives | Samsung 850 EVO 256gb SSD |
| Network Cards | Dual Port Intel Pro/1000 PT |
| Power Supply | Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200W |
2 Seagate 4 TB 7200 RPM desktop drives were installed and used in the DAS tests.
2 Samsung 850 EVO 256 SSD were used for SSD testing.
Seagate drives have no data on them.
Samsung drives have loaded data.
D2-310 was used with Raid 0 and Raid 1 configurations.
Software
All testing is done based off of a single client accessing the DAS.
To test DAS Performance I used Crystal Disk Mark and Black Magic Disk Speed test.
All tests were run a total of three times then highest sequential speed was recorded.
Benchmarks
RAID0 with Hard Drives
RAID1 with Hard Drives
RAID0 with SSD
RAID1 with SSD
