Netgear ReadyNAS 214 Four-Bay Consumer NAS Review

Benchmarks – Sequential Workloads

Our Sequential read/write workload is centered on 128K transfer sizes.

Sequential read performance allowed the RN214 to compete and even outperform the latest appliances on the market. RAID 0 came in at 117 MB/s while RAID 5 touched 110 MB/s.

Sequential write too was good with 115 MB/s in RAID 0 and 108 MB/s for RAID 5 and 10.

Benchmarks – SMB Workloads

SMB workloads were a bit harder for the RN214. Database proved to be the best situation reaching close to 900 IOPS while the others were quite consistent between 400 and 600 IOPS.

Over to RAID 5 performance did tick up a notch as we have 950 IOPS in Database followed by 800 IOPS in File Server. The last three tests all stuck around 600 IOPS.

In our last test with RAID 10, Database was once again the top performer very near to 1000 IOPS. This was followed by 625 IOPS in File Server and a pretty consistent 500 IOPS with the last three tests.