Synology DS414j: An Ideal Backup NAS
by Ganesh T S on July 10, 2014 9:00 AM ESTMulti-Client Performance - CIFS
We put the Synology DS414j through some IOMeter tests with a CIFS share being accessed from up to 25 VMs simultaneously. The following four graphs show the total available bandwidth and the average response time while being subject to different types of workloads through IOMeter. IOMeter also reports various other metrics of interest such as maximum response time, read and write IOPS, separate read and write bandwidth figures etc. Some of the interesting aspects from our IOMeter benchmarking run can be found here.
All the units compared with the DS414j in the above graphs come with two GbE links except for the Asustor AS-304T (which only has one). Compared to other units, we find that the Synology DS414j exhibits better consistency in performance as the number of simultaneous connections goes up.
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Andrew911tt - Thursday, July 10, 2014 - link
I was dealing with the exact same thing and ended up building my own based on the Intel J1900total cost for me was $400
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/107967-anyo...
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1825843
embeddedGPU - Thursday, July 10, 2014 - link
I just want to mention that Mindspeed's CPE processor business has been acquired by Freescale and the Comcerto C2200 is now the Freescale LS1024Acolinstu - Thursday, July 10, 2014 - link
Absolutely love my DS412+!basroil - Thursday, July 10, 2014 - link
That iSCSI performance is really lackluster considering the ratio to CIFS performance of other drives. But given that this one's an ARM system rather than Atom, perhaps the device is optimized for multiple users?peterfares - Friday, July 11, 2014 - link
So many NAS reviews lately! Thorough as always!Andy Chow - Friday, July 11, 2014 - link
Since you guys have 12 x OCZ Technology Vertex 4 64GB laying around, could you run a benchmark with SSD? In general all NAS should be benchmarked with SSD.A SSD would show the bottlenecks of the device itself.
I really wonder if cheap devices like these could really become fast enough and scalable to replace commercial systems.
gorbag - Saturday, July 12, 2014 - link
"A SSD would show the bottlenecks of the device itself." -- Andy ChowSort of. One device might be better at using drives in parallel than another - a difference that would disappear with extremely fast drives. But if you intend to use the NAS with SSDs then of course SSD benchmarks would be more useful to you.
Conficio - Monday, July 14, 2014 - link
"for example, DS414j and jx4-300d both don't support hot-swap" type "ix4-300d" ?brifin5 - Friday, July 18, 2014 - link
You can use Long Path Tool as well.carage - Monday, August 4, 2014 - link
I was inclined to buy a Synology NAS device recently, until I heard of thing called SynoLocker. I would think twice before there is an official solution to this problem.