CrystalDiskMark

RAID 1

RAID 0

Single SSD

First up is CrystalDiskMark, as it gives us quick baseline of the performance. As the Drivestor 2 Gen2 AS1202T is limited to two drive bays, we tested it in RAID 0 and 1, as well as with a pair of 2.5-inch SSDs in RAID 0 to see if there was any extra performance to be gained by moving from mechanical drives to solid state drives. Initial performance looks very decent, except for the random 4K performance, but considering the comparatively basic hardware, we're not going to complain too much.

iPerf3

Unfortunately we couldn't run iPerf3 on the Drivestor 2 Gen2 AS1202T, as Asustor doesn't provide a version for its Arm based NAS devices, nor is it possible to install, as both the wget and apt commands are missing from the OS. This means that we don't know if the RTL8156 is a bottleneck or not, since we can't test the TCP throughput.

AJA System Test

New for this year is the addition of the AJA System Test, which is another synthetic benchmark that works similar to CrystalDiskMark, but with a focus on video files. We set it up to emulate a 4K video file using a 10-bit YUV codec and tested with both a 1 GB and a 64 GB file size. We don't really have anything to compare with here, as it's the first device we've tested with the AJA System Test, but it will be part of our standard NAS tests going forward.

NAS Performance Tester

The NAS performance tester shows that there's plenty of performance to be had from the AS1202T, even compared to the Ugreen NASync DH2300 with a 2.5 Gbps Ethernet to USB dongle attached. This is impressive considering that the DH2300 has four times as much RAM and an extra four, faster cores.

Helios LanTest

Helios RAID 1 2.5 Gbps

Helios RAID 0 2.5 Gbps

Helios single SSD 2.5 Gbps

Finally, we have the Helios LanTest which runs seven different tests to measure both response time and raw throughput of a NAS. We run each test fives times which produces an average of those five runs to eliminate potential outliers. Here the write performance is to Asustor's advantage, whereas the Ugreen offers faster read performance, albeit only when using the USB to 2.5 Gbps Ethernet dongle. The DH2300 is also faster when it comes to creating files, but loses out to the AS1202T in all the other tests.