Thecus W4000 4-Bay WSS 2012 R2 NAS Review

Content Creation

For content creation, Intel have simulated access to via video creation applications. This is made up of 98 files with 12 MB reads and 14 MB writes in varying sizes of blocks. The activity is predominantly non-sequential with the majority of access time made up of writing to the drives. There are quiet periods of read/write activity interrupted by busy periods to present a difficult workload on the drives.