{"id":203,"date":"2011-11-12T12:03:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T17:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2011-11-12T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T17:03:39","slug":"drobo-s-vs-synology-1511-performance-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/drobo-s-vs-synology-1511-performance-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Drobo S vs. Synology 1511+ Performance Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I got my Drobo S back up and running with a new power supply, I thought I&#8217;d put up some quick performance numbers.\u00a0 The tests are just copying some DVD images back &amp; forth using Windows Explorer and timing on a stopwatch.<\/p>\n<p>Synology via Gigabit Ethernet<\/p>\n<p>Read: 3920357376B in 53 files, 2 folders from Synology to my Desktop on my Shift PC: 67 seconds = 58512797 B\/s = 468.10\u00a0megabits \/ s\u00a0= 58.5 MB\/s (just to put all the units out there in case anybody&#8217;s confused)<\/p>\n<p>Write: 3921112106B (same as the test below from the same spot) to Synology: 69 seconds = 56.8MB\/s<\/p>\n<p>Drobo S via eSATA<\/p>\n<p>3921112106B in 58 files, 2 folders from Drobo-S to same spot on Shift PC: 49 seconds = 80022696 B\/s = 640.18 megabits \/ s = 80.0 MB\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Write: 3921112106B to Synology: 53s = 74 MB\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Drobo S wins soundly.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the summary, again:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drobo S via eSATA: 80.0 MB\/s read, 74 MB\/s write<\/li>\n<li>Synology 1511+ via Gig-E: 58.5 MB\/s read, 56.8 MB\/s write<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anybody think I can tweak settings to get the Synology to go faster?\u00a0 Let me know what they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drobo S soundly beats Synology 1511+ in file copy performance test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,20,21],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet","tag-drobo","tag-nas","tag-synology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ictG-3h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/nas-drobo-vs-freenas-vs-synology\/","url_meta":{"origin":203,"position":0},"title":"NAS: Drobo vs. FreeNAS vs. Synology","author":"john","date":"September 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been psyched for Drobo ever since the first time I saw their video years ago where the guy played back a movie while pulling out and putting back in drives. \u00a0Wicked awesome. 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