* [http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-nas-performance-toolkit/ Intel NAS Performance Toolkit]
* [http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance NAS Performance Tester (C#)]* [ftp://samba.org/pub/tridge/dbench/README SAMBA README]
Some pointers in this [http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/windows-client-cifs-behavior-can-slow-linux-nas-performance/ Windows/Linux File Sharing performance]
What if I want to test from Linux...? OSX? BSD? This could probably be portable: [http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance | NAs Performance Tester (C#)] Some people will be more inclined towards this: ftp://samba.org/pub/tridge/dbench/README = Tips and Ideas =
What I'd like to see in such testing would be at least:
# Network conditions (e.g. "this script has detected a connection of 1Gbit with Jumbo Frames capability")
# Testing for transferring a few thousand small files, as well as sustained throughput of a large file