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Compare the write speed between Synology Box and local drive on 755

Numbers from Lulu Zhu, published Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:12 AM

The speed of writing one 1GB file to Synology Box:
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.19986 s, 173 MB/s

The speed of writing one 1GB file to local drive:
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.70751 s, 139 MB/s (local)

The speed of writing two 1GB files to Synology Box:
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 16.7387 s, 64.1 MB/s (two files)

The speed of writing two 1GB files to local drive:
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 18.3784 s, 58.4 MB/s (two files)

The speed of reading one 1GB file from local drive:
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 0.273401 s, 3.9 GB/s