TESTING METHODOLOGY – TEST RESULTS

   Since some of the NAS servers/devices we have tested in the past are no longer in our possession (naturally) we will keep performing the exact same testing methodology we did in the past for as long as possible in order to provide accurate comparison results. So as always we will be using a single Seagate Constellation ES.2 3TB SATA III hard disk drive with the unit at hand (just like with all of the NAS servers) and perform several upload/download tests with a single 10.9GB file. Tests are repeated a total of 4 times after which we record the average numbers (from the 4 peak ones) into our charts. Finally the network device used is the same Netgear DGN3500 Gigabit ADSL2+ Modem/Router we always use when performing tests on NAS servers.

FILE TRANSFER TEST

A single 10.9GB file was uploaded and downloaded to and from all the NAS units in this test. Now i can't say that we were largely impressed with the performance of the TurboNAS TS-420 but it's worth mentioning that during the transfer of 200-300MB files to the NAS it even hit 125MB/s and for quite some time but that didn't happen with really large files.

TEMPERATURES

As you can see the 90mm exhaust fan kept the drive quite cool and never passed 32 degrees Celsius.

POWER CONSUMPTION

Consumption wise the TS-420 scored just 1W less than the TS-221 probably due to the difference in CPU clocks and installed memory (as always hibernation was not enabled).

NOISE LEVELS

Although it happened only a couple of times the TS-420 did hit 52.4dBA while at heavy load (generally however its noise levels where between 37.2 and 44dBA).