HOW WE TEST

THIS APC LABS FOCUSES ON HOME AND SMALL OFFICE NAS ENCLOSURES, SO IT WAS IMPORTANT TO TEST THEM WITH A REALISTIC SETUP.

We chose a mid-spec Intel Core i5-1135G7 Windows 11 laptop with 16GB of RAM. We upgraded it with a USB-C to 2.5GbE adapter, and used a QSW-1108-8T switch kindly provided by QNAP. We tested each NAS with the maximum number of disks fitted. For two-bay devices, we used two 4TB Synology Plus disks, and where possible tested again with a mismatched set comprising 12TB WD Red Plus and 14TB Red Pro NAS hard drives. On four-bay devices, we used four 1TB Seagate Barracuda disks, then re-tested using one of the two-disk pairings. Where a NAS had NVMe slots, we added two WD Black 1TB SSDs and repeated our tests with them configured as a read-write cache. Where supported, we also configured and tested these as a standalone flash volume. With…

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