Laptop-Review.eu

Benchmark

We tested some different factors:

- Transfer speed
- Power consumption
- Hard drive temperature

The hard drives we installed in the device were:

2 * Samsung F1 500GB

They were connected in Raid 0 to achieve the greatest possible speed. In reality though, the bottleneck is probably in the network. Even though we have a 1Gbit connection, we cannot expect it to perform 100%. Professionals usually assume the expected transfer speed is 60 Mb/s on a Gbit connection, although we could actually expect 125 Mb/s.

First we will look at a test Synology carried out:



Here we see three different devices from Synology, all tested in the time it takes to transfer a 2GB file. The two older devices, DS210j and DS209, lose in practically all tests, and the hardware update does not even bring a rise in power consumption with it. DS209+II seems to be one of the quickest models made for two drives from Synology.

Here is our own test:



Here we tried to transfer a 4GB file over FTP and as a standard file transfer. The result turned out to be remarkably in tune with what Synology said, although we did not quite reach the level Synology promised. FTP transfer was by far the fastest, but with 55 Mb/s reading and 45 Mb/s writing, you can transfer even large data chunks via standard file transfer.

The next thing we looked at was the power consumption, which was lower than expected. That is measured with the two drives installed and load is calculated after we started two file transfers and created a web server.

The power consumption for this device can only be compared with other VIA and ARM CPUs. Intel Atom still has a power consumption much too large for the chipset, and why pay extra for power when you do not have to?

Hard drive temperature reached a peak after 3-4 hours of file transfer. The fan hardly made any noise, so it is actually rather silent.