Teratrend TS432U 4 Bay RAID Enclosure Review
Chris Hadley / 10 years ago
Intel NASPT
When testing a device of this sort, the system that we use to test with is not a major factor in its performance. The performance of the medium comes down to the network its running on and its own internal hardware. With a device of this sort having so many different applications, Intel’s NASPT software covers all the bases and also gives us a set of results that we will be able to utilise and therefore give a benchmark against other similar systems in the future.
Intel NASPT (Network Attached Storage Performance Toolkit) performs its test by transferring varying sizes and quantities of data to and from the device based on twelve different scenarios.
The system that we use to run the Intel NASPT software does require us to drop the memory right down to 2GB as any more than this leads to data caching and therefore skews the results from the storage medium.
Even though this unit is not network attached, it still helps us to get a broader view on how the enclosure performs in a variety of test scenarios.
RAID5
RAID10
RAID0
JBOD
Looking across the spectrum of test results from NASPT, the TS432U gives a fairly consistent level of performance with speeds of close to 200MB/s seen through each RAID configuration and just over 110MB/s in JBOD.
