Synology DS209 Network Attached Storage
Jun 29th, 2009 | By SimonCrystal Disk Mark and ATTO Disk Benchmark are more conventional benchmarking applications. They do the exact same as IOZone and IOMeter but in a far more simplified manner. The only take a minute or two too completed versus the several hours it takes to finish one run with IOZone.
I’m always curious to know how much power my newest toy consumes. Toronto has just introduced time of use billing where peak hours are charged at significantly higher rates than low usage rates. The Synology DS209 doesn’t do too badly. There is a phantom load of 4W when the device is sleeping. When idle there is a consumption rate of 21W and active transferring eats up 24. The heaviest usage comes when the drives are being compiled to a particular RAID configuration. This is because the processor is in full use. We max out at 26W in this case. Overall the load is fairly small and steady.
