Performances in Raid 0
Now we give you an idea of performances in Raid 0, a mode which we strongly recommend you do not use (especially with a five drive storage).
We find exactly the same behavior and ranking as in Raid 5. However, absolute values are still obviously higher as Raid 0 enables gaining speeds that are 17% higher in writing (sustained speed in SMB). On the other hand, reading performances are almost identical.
Performances in Raid 1
For these tests, we created a Raid 1 storage of two drives.
After the Thecus N5200BR Pro, the DS508 is the second NAS which gave us higher writing performances in Raid 5 than in Raid 1. Obviously, this is logical on paper but given the weak processors that are used in NAS systems we rarely witness this behavior.
