Benchmarks: NASPT Continued
The NAS Performance Toolkit simulates various workloads to measure single-user performance. Office Productivity is a read and write test involving hundreds of small files, File Copy from NAS is a read test that uses a single 4.3GB transfer, while Directory Copy to NAS transfers a folder of 2,833 files using mostly 64KB writes.
Buffalo's LinkStation 520 is clearly best suited to the large sequential transfers that are likely to be common in a home environment, but the hardware combination struggles to cope when hammered with multiple small files.
