These are the fio settings used by StorageReview.com in their benchmarks: https://www.storagereview.com/fio-flexible-i-o-tester-synthetic-benchmark Ars Technica’s series on RAID vs. ZFS (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eight-ironwolf-disks-two-filesystems-one-winner) used this set of tests: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/fio-test-scaffolding > On Dec 21, 2020, at 2:49 PM, rickyp999@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm curious whether there are some standard or at least common test > parameters for benchmarking NAS workloads. > > If NAS is too specific, even a general one for HDD/SSD would be > greatly appreciated. My motivation is to use a common set of > benchmarks to compare how options like RAID levels, network > speed/protocol (through a NFS/SMB mount), and SSD cache affect > performance. > > Thank you,