Synology DISKSTATION DS725+ (2-BAY)

Test Environment for Data IO and Throughput Benchmarks NAS/IP SAN: Operating system: DSM 7.3/DSM UC 3.1 RAID volume type: RAID 6 (12 bays and above), RAID 5 (4 bays to 8 bays), RAID 1 (2 bays), Basic (1 bay) Drives (fully populated): SATA models: Synology 4 TB SATA HDD/960 GB SATA SSD SAS models: Synology 8 TB SAS HDD/Western Digital 400 GB SAS SSD Network interface cards: Fully populated with the maximum supported amount of Synology 25GbE NICs (for HD6500/FS3600)/10GbE NICs (for other models). Network configuration: Utilize all network ports for maximum bandwidth. Client computer: 10GbE environment: Intel Core i7-13700K 5.4GHz; 2 x 16 GB DDR5-5600; 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD; Synology E10G18-T2 NIC 25GbE environment: Intel Core i7-14700K 5.6GHz; 1 x 32 GB DDR5-5600; 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD; Synology E25G30-F2 NIC Benchmarks: SMB sequential throughput tests: FIO v3.35, 100% read/write ratio and 1 MB block size, Windows Server 2022 Datacenter iSCSI random IOPS tests: FIO v3.35, 100% read/write ratio and 4 KB block size, Thin LUN, Windows Server 2022 Datacenter NFS random IOPS tests: FIO v3.35, 100% read/write ratio and 4 KB block size, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Test Environment for Synology Applications Synology Drive and Synology Office: Models with expandable memory are tested with the maximum supported quantity installed. Models with SSD support are tested with a single SSD volume. Synology MailPlus: Models with expandable memory are tested with the maximum supported quantity installed. Learn more about memory requirements. Models with SSD support are tested with a single SSD volume. Operating in high-availability mode will incur additional overhead. Features enabled during evaluation: anti-spam, anti-virus, DNSBL, greylist, content scanning, and full-text search (English). Surveillance Station: Models are tested with fully populated drive bays using the default memory configuration under continuous recording. FS Series models are tested using SSD drives.