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. In terms of write performance the TS-470 did very good but its read performance was not really as good as we were expecting.

TEMPERATURES

Nothing really impressive in terms of HDD temperature (luckily the TS-470 didn't heat up the drive more than previously reviewed models).

POWER CONSUMPTION

Power consumption is obviously higher than previously reviewed NAS Servers since the Celeron CPU can't be compared to the Atom ones (the cost of better performance however is slim).

NOISE LEVELS

During testing the 90mm fan never went over 44.7dBA however if you manually chose to run it at high speed you should expect noise levels way surpassing 50dBA.