What is the performance of SoftNAS Cloud NAS for Microsoft?

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Last updated: Jan 28, 2021 by Former user (Deleted)
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  • Up to 10,000 IOPS on Amazon EC2

  • 40,000+ IOPS with SSD cache


SoftNAS’ new patent-pending ObjFast™ technology writes data to Azure Blob Storage up to 400% faster when compared to SoftNAS v3.4.9 and v3.5.4. This improvement allows customers to use lower-cost cloud object storage backends (Azure Blob) with performance levels rivaling that of cloud block storage backends (Azure Disk).

Microsoft Azure NFS Performance



  • 320% improvement in NFS IOPS using Azure Blob

  • 377% improvement in NFS throughput using Azure Blob

Microsoft Azure CIFS/SMB Performance


  • 305% improvement in CIFS IOPS using Azure Blob

  • 428% improvement in CIFS throughput using Azure Blob

Microsoft Azure iSCSI Performance



  • 310% improvement in iSCSI IOPS using Azure Blob

  • 369% improvement in iSCSI throughput using Azure Blob