The Content Creation test reduced the DS2411+’s performance to just 12MB/s, setting it just behind the DS1511+’s 13MB/s while making the device only marginally faster than the DS411+ (less than 1MB/s) and about 2MB/s faster than our Core 2 Duo test system. The DS2411+ matched the DS151+ with a bandwidth of 47.5MB/s in the Office Productivity test while outperforming our C2D test machine by about 10MB/s. Intel’s file copy test uses a single large file, so we expected similar results to our own 6GB file copy test. However, the DS411+ and DS211 are much faster than anticipated so we’re not entirely sure what the Intel NAS Performance Toolkit does differently here. The Photo Album test uses a large number of small files and as we’ve already witnessed, this really hammers performance. The DS2411+ was actually slightly faster when using RAID5 here, delivering roughly the same performance as the DS1511+ and DS411+.
