UPDATE: I had a discussion with Ulrik D. Hansen, developer of NAS performance tester and thanks to some input from his side realized that test results described in this blog post are not correct, but I will leave this post as is and write another one with new tests and some explanations soon. It is something like on … Synology DS415+ Adaptive Load Balancing
Just a quick note on possibilities available to do some bench-marking of NAS performance. Quite often Blackmagic Disk Speed Test or Intel NAS Performance Toolkit are being used for this. But there are some problems with those: first one is nice and cool but for Mac only, second is good but no longer supported by … Measuring NAS performance
As I moved most of my VMs to NAS, I should admit that whereas it is best solution in terms of providing adequate space for bulky VMs and snapshots and access convenience, you pay for it with decreased performance (at least if you compare it with running VMs off internal SATA 3 SSDs). Latter can … Running VMware Workstation VMs from NAS
It has been a while since I decided to splash out and get a NAS for myself. As I need to run loads of VMs both for work related purposes and for fun (it’s cool when we can combine work and fun, right?) it was a bit easier for me to justify significant costs. As … Synolgogy DS415+
