Terramaster F8-SSD
6. Tests
To test the performance of the F8-SSD (latest TNAS version) we connected via the 10G RJ45 to the EnGenius EnGenius ECS2512FP and we transferred files from a 10G connected PC (AMD 7950X - Asus X670E ProArt) with the FastCopy software under Windows 11 operating system (latest updates/build installed). Write Cache was ENABLED during the read/writing tests for all installed NVME SSDs at the F8-SSD, while no App was running in the background. Microsoft Defender was DISABLED during the read/write tests. Most of our tests were linear transfers (44GB/ 200GB). The source drive was a Crucial T705 2TB NVME placed at a PCIe 5.0 slot so there would be a file transfer bottleneck. All storage pools have a BTRFS file system (TNAS default).
| Test (MB/sec) | TRAID (system disk) |
Single Disk | RAID0 | RAID1 |
| 44GB single file from PC to NAS | 793.7 | 768,0 | 820,4 | 810.9 |
| 44GB single file from NAS to PC | 838.2 | 647.1 | 657.5 | 555.3 |
| 200GB single file from PC to NAS | 737.1 | 715.7 | 776.8 | 611.9 |
Performance-wise, we saw spikes of written data up to 1.1GB/sec, while reading back to the PC from the NAS server seems to top around 700-800MB/sec. We noticed that during reading/writing, CPU usage went up to 40-50% depending on and dropping. We expected a little more to be honest since this model is advertised as capable of up to 1.2GB/sec.
Users can install also their version of other operating systems, either Linux or Windows-based, take a look at the following posts from Terramaster Official forums, we won't cover this in this review.
