Crazy 48TB SSD NAS and Cheap 6TB Version Asustor Flashstor FS67

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We take a look at the 48TB Asustor Flashstor 12 Pro and Flashstor 6 all-flash NAS units and see how they are made. The Asustor Flashstor FS6712X 10GbE NAS we fitted with 12x Crucial P3 Plus 4TB M.2 NVMe SSDs for 48TB total. The Asustor Flashstor FS6706T 2.5GbE NAS we fitted with 6x Crucial P3 Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe SSDs as a cheap option. These units are crazy.
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00:00 Introduction
02:39 External Hardware Overview FS6706T and FS6712X
04:48 Internal Hardware Overview FS6706T and FS6712X
08:56 Performance
11:38 Power Consumption and Noise
15:12 Key Lessons Learned
19:04 Wrap-up
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@chumbawumba1959 Год назад

We need Asustor and Synology to have a baby! Need the tech innovation of the Asustor and the DSM UI and package features of the Synology with all of apps. Memo to Synology: Pay attention and catch up :)

@balla2172 Год назад

And the hardware of qnap

@u4ia420 Год назад

I don't want to step away from Synology due to their fantastic software, but Asustor, they are making me think hard about my next NAS.

@vilikarac6776 11 месяцев назад

Is that a ps4?

@vilikarac6776 11 месяцев назад

Is that a ps4?

@seansingh4421 10 месяцев назад

They’re called Ubrel and Unraid

@CareyHolzman Год назад

Thank you! I had no idea these existed. Very thorough review! Thank you!

@pincombe Год назад

Not sure if you’ve spoken to asustor but a rep told me that low noise was one of their top goals. Their intention for the product is to be used for media consumption and expect it to sit connected to a tv in someone’s media center which is why it has the angled sides. It’s a weird one because although it’s quacks like a NAS it’s really aimed at the android media box market.

@dexopaw Год назад

Do the angled sides make it quieter?

@pincombe Год назад

@@dexopaw no they are purely for looks since they expect this product to be sitting alongside your tv

@marcogenovesi8570 Год назад

@@dexopaw They clearly copied old playstation look

@concinnus Год назад

In this case, one angled side has a practical effect: it ensures that the exhaust is not blocked by someone shoving it up against a panel.

@leonwang4207 Год назад

@@pincombe I think it's worked to avoid covering the cooling vents when you pout it in a tiny space , but yes, also make it more gaming stylish

@feejus 11 месяцев назад

Thanx Patric! Truly amazing devices. I hope we see more manufacture come out with these. I got an old Thecus NAS I want to migrate across to new NAS.

@ericneo2 Год назад

Thank you so much for covering the 10GbE!

@chuck1011212 Год назад

I got the 12 drive version of this and like it. (loaded with 4x 4TB drives was not cheap though) I wanted something that was more portable and was light and fit well into a suitcase. This fits the bill perfectly. I am a travelling nomad and want to bring my media collection with me.

@antonzadorozhniy6605 Год назад

I wish for something like this (maybe even smaller, like 3-4 m.2 connectors), but with bios and ability to install OS of choice, with ZFS. Would be a great low power and quiet NAS for those who don’t need a lot of storage.

@marcogenovesi8570 Год назад

These should be already like that. They have a HDMI port and a BIOS, and an Intel processor. Unless they have been locked down, but ASUS didn't do much to lock you out on other NAS with similar hardware

@antonzadorozhniy6605 Год назад

Wow, thanks, I’ll look into it. Would be great to have ECC RAM as well, but Intel spec says it doesn’t support it.

@marcogenovesi8570 Год назад

@@antonzadorozhniy6605 Pretty much no consumer NAS supports ECC RAM and this is no different

@n.shiina8798 Год назад

@@antonzadorozhniy6605 no ECC support is common for consumer grade NAS. Synology have Ryzen based consumer NAS that supports ECC but i have no idea if they're locked to their OS or not

@scsirob Год назад

QNAP has the TBS464, with 4x M.2 and 2x 2.5GbE. I have not tried hacking my way into it, but I have with other QNAP devices. I had a TS873 that I replaced the USB DOM from and ran TrueNAS on it. Ran like a charm.

@alanpaone Год назад

I love the idea of these, I've been using a DS620slim for awhile because my office is also my bedroom, so having no hard drives clicking away all night is really nice, having 2 gigabit connections is totally fine for home use, even if I'd love a little more. There's plenty of gigantic 12 core, 24-bay NVME dual 100gig all flash NAS options, but surprisingly few small and silent all-flash products. the 12 bay option would give me the option of using whatever cheap 1-2TB NVME drives i can get my hands on, without needing to hunt down good deals on cutting edge high-capacity drives (seriously, 4tb 2.5" drives are a nightmare right now), or losing a bunch of space for redundancy. these are a softball right over the plate for me.

@SeaJay_Oceans 11 месяцев назад

I LOVE the angled look of the Asustor Flashstor, in a room full of cases and boxes and equipment - they stand out from all the plain black or grey rectangles ! :-)

@ServeTheHomeVideo 11 месяцев назад

It looks cool, but it also looks funny when stacked.

@Simon_Hawkshaw Год назад

Thank you for this introduction to this equipment. Interesting products.

@stepannovotny4291 Год назад

Brilliant review, thank you! Yeah the USB fan connector makes me very nervous. I listened to this at 1.5 x playback speed and that was about right.

@lordbacon4972 10 месяцев назад

Great content! I really appreciate your review approach and format, I learned a lot! Subscribed!

@ServeTheHomeVideo 10 месяцев назад

Thanks! Still working on it

@antonnym214 10 месяцев назад

I just found you, and sir, you are awesome! I subscribed immediately. All good wishes and thanks for such hyperinteresting content!

@ServeTheHomeVideo 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@StephanWahlen Год назад

I did the spiritual predecessor to this id like to think: A Synology DS620*slim* loaded with 6x 8TB Samsung 2.5" SATA SSDs. It's similar by volume to the Asustor Units and has a similar-ish processor (J425) and 8GB RAM (i upgraded it). The result is a silent, small NAS with decent enough performance for all kind of home-uses that can be tucked away anywhere and will never cause issues with anything mechanical. I just wish there was an option for 10gbe on my synology, but it's just too old for that (2019). You can add a 2.5gbe via USB3 though and it works well.

@dobermanownerforlife3902 Год назад

I wish the 2.5" nas had taken off. I should have bought the Slim. With them no longer being produced, I opted to not buy one.

@gowinfanless Год назад

Professional video with such a cool NAS,NICE!!

@someoneoutthere1866 Год назад

been waitng for wsomething like this

@geoffsmith82 Год назад

Looking forward to when I can get a device that has 20Tb of NVME storage, 10gb ethernet, fanless and able to run a few basic VM's all for $500 in a decent case. Probably a few years away yet, but these devices show we are getting closer!

@junkmail6992 10 месяцев назад

I got the 12 drive one. It became clear very quickly it was nowhere near as legit as my QNAP but it grew on me pretty quickly once I begun to appreciate what it was and stopped trying to compare it to other things. I have since decided to use it as the low power central hub for my media center data, apps, and related docker containers. For that specific purpose It's pretty damn slick and multiple Plex 4K playback is smooth even with the CPU pegged; doesn't matter, it stays responsive. Its whisper quit and small, so it disappears in my entertainment rack. The UI and the apps are not as diverse as QNAPs or as apple-y as Synology but it's experience overall is very serviceable. For a power user needing to host VMs and manage a diverse set of workloads this won't work; it can't even support multiple VLANs on the same NIC. VirtualBox feels like its trapped in the 90s. But for basic use or even modernly advanced needs, I would recommend this.

@n25992 Месяц назад

Hello do you mean it is compatible with plex server. That would be my main use

@Rbrocklehurst 5 месяцев назад

great video always very thorough

@ServeTheHomeVideo 5 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@pixelwash9707 11 месяцев назад

I love it, a sort of reasonably priced solid state NAS for camping. Never thought I'd see such a thing discussed by an corporate enterprise IT Pro, lol, but intriguing possibilities definitely come to mind for personal media libraries.

@MiaogisTeas 6 месяцев назад

And I get funny looks for having a canvas tent with a stove for camping. I can't imagine why anyone would need a NAS when camping in the middle of a forest beside a quiet lake 🤣🤣

@DoctorShaunB 8 месяцев назад

N305 version of this would be great! Although would still only have 9 PCIE lanes. Throw in a suite of synology type features and you got a winner!

@MainelyElectrons Год назад

Neat units. I could see this being a good solution for a person whos’ primary concern was size of the unit AND they don’t plan on using VMs or compute heavy dockers, plus they have no need for the storage volume of spinning drives

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

Also noise. Large helium disks make a decent amount of noise when working. Think about if you had a small studio and wanted a NAS to store footage

@MainelyElectrons Год назад

@@ServeTheHomeVideo solid point, I’m one of those weirdos who likes to hear the drives clicking away so I hadn’t even considered that.

@cmoullasnet Год назад

I just switched my home TrueNAS from spinning rust to 7.68TB U.2 Kioxia CD6 drives off Ebay using a PCIe x16 bifurcation card. Was just tired of slow spinning rust drives. I only have 10GbE as well and the drives are super limited by both ZFS and 10GbE networking but honestly SSDs have nearly reached the point where you can buy them and throw away the performance as bulk storage. It's just a nice big quality of life improvement - less noise, less power and consistent performance for all your file shares. So I definitely get the concept from this perspective.

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

Very much this. We are getting more 30.72TB SSDs in the lab and that is making all-flash high capacity storage tempting.

@jonathanbuzzard1376 Год назад

I wish that was true. However, if you are buying serious quantities of storage then the difference is a seven figure sum. I have recently had a quote from the Pure sales rep at work who insisted that they where cost-competitive with spinning disks LOL. Admittedly you are spinning hundreds of drives at that point and all your metadata and small files are on SSD so meh.

@MichaelBoratko Год назад

Does ZFS actually limit the performance of fast M2 SSDs? What should one use instead?

@blender_wiki 6 месяцев назад

In our studio we have 2 of the 10GbE model and after few months of usage they are just Great. One whe use for fast backup on set and the other one for the VR in house set as storage for the dedicated Unreal WS. Both situation require light/small, high capacity, non moving part storage. However we upgarded the RAM and we instaled TrueNAS scale instead than the original OS. ZFS z2 setup(28TB practical capacity), easy cloud sync, openvpn, auto shut down on power failure,small custom docker to manage some in house utility, etc.) Like you said this is mainly a storage solutions you don't get crazy speed out of it but is very light, low consomption, very costumizable. Low consomption is great on set where often we work on powerbank.

@ServeTheHomeVideo 6 месяцев назад

I am now using one in the studio and one at home just for the quiet operation as well.

@bpj443 3 месяца назад

I see these as perfect solutions for Van Life and Sailing / Cruising lifers. Those very much offgrid applications where minimal space and power consumption are key. The performance is more than sufficient for their vlogging and video editing, plus storing media libraries / entertainment, and maybe even storing video from IP cameras for security. The 12V side of these vehicles' power systems is clean enough these days that you could probably just power directly off that bus.

@fteoOpty64 Год назад

Patrick is way more enthusiastic in this video!. Better and better stuff to review and test. This NAS is great for an RV on the road, editing outdoor videos at night!.

@ryanmalone2681 2 месяца назад

Seems like a decent solution for having on the network and passing through as SMB storage to Proxmox containers/VMs.

@Evan-lg1xp Год назад

This is an excellent time to release this. The price of NANA flash is so crazy right now. The price of SSD's has gone down so much in the last month and now the M.2 drives are dirt cheap. We're finally at a point where something like this makes sense to buy.

@rdiznfriends Год назад

do you have any more in depth knowledge of the market to share? is this drop in nand prices cyclical or more permanent? is it a result of oversupply from the past year or so or was there a change in the cost of manufacturing causing prices to drop?

@Annoye 10 месяцев назад

@@rdiznfriendslast one

@namelessdata4608 11 месяцев назад

If they made the 6 slot version with a 10 gig nic for the current price, I think I'd buy it!

@alonzosmith6189 Год назад

The flashstor on my wish list. Hopefully my sons surprise me. Currently looking at the AS6708T NAS

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

I have a feeling you are going to be sending them this video

@steverogers8163 Год назад

Funny I was just thinking about a SSD NAS yesterday. From pricing it looks like going with regular ol' SATA SSD are cheaper on the per Terabyte compared to their M.2 equivalent size, though not by a gigantic amount. Obviously that means they are bigger and slower but realistically that doesn't matter for what I would use it for. Or really what the vast bulk of home users what use it for. Though since the market is clearly all in on M.2 I expect by the time we see more of these M.2 NAS units from the likes of Synology the pricing on them will probably be better than the old SATA style.

@Mkungaa Год назад

Cheap SATA SSDs have abysmal speeds during consecutive writes. SATA SSD with proper cache and speeds are quite expensive tho, and there is no much of a choice outside of Samsung and Corsair MX.

@scsirob Год назад

SATA or MVMe won't matter much in performance. In the end it needs to hit the network. A single SATA-600 drive has enough throughput to completely fill two 2.5GbE network connections. These 6 or 12 M.2 NVMe SSDs are twiddling their thumbs for their entire lifespan.

@Mkungaa Год назад

@@scsirob y'all live all in a fantasy world, where SSDs keep writing at 500MB/s after filling out cache capacity? 1TB Samsung 870 EVO's actual sustained write speed is 80 MB/s, 2 TB version has only 160 MB/s. And on top of it 1TB SATA 870 EVO costs more than m.2 970 EVO Plus, which has sustained writing speed around 800-900 MB/s. M.2 in these all-flash NASes makes sense, SATA SSDs are obsolete - they do not get produced and sold enough to benefit from economies of scale.

@mnomadvfx Год назад

You can get a 4 TB M2 NVMe PCIe4 SSD for £200 these days - to me that's pretty close to SATA SSD's for pricing. The problem is when you want higher quality 4 TB, or anything at 8 TB. How on Earth we had a 1 TB microSD years ago, but still can't get more than 8 TB per M2 SSD is beyond me. It should be possible, it's just that noone is actually doing it.

@abelgerli Год назад

Actually usb c power supply would be perfect for travel. I got a two 100w GaN usbc psu so travelling with a big nas would be perfect. And no one need that bend walls on a nas. Make it fancy and stylish for a nas that just has to vanish. Server rack bracket mounts would be nice though 😊.

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

That is my biggest complaint about the side angle style. Totally agree

@craigyounkins7013 10 месяцев назад

Strange conclusion "So overall, do I think these things are great? Absolutely... not" but overall you seemed happy with it and the complaint that immediately followed was about the form factor and seemed pretty minor.

@ServeTheHomeVideo 10 месяцев назад

There is a difference between greatness and something that is just generally good. Steph Curry is great, even if he cannot play center in the NBA. Every NBA player is generally good.

@starwarrior125 Год назад

I'm actually considering this for my mobile office/camper build. With its low power draw a single solar panel with a small battery could run it indefinitely. I could also see this being used to run my steam library off of with the 10Gbe being enough for this.

@AxelZara 7 месяцев назад

This is overkill for a Steam library and in the end you'll lose performance. If you only need your steam library, you are better off getting 1 or 2 8TB SSDs and running off of those.

@LordTimelord Год назад

They NEED to create a version of this that supports the twelve nVME Drives combined with a AMD Zen3+/RDNA3 APU that'll support 32GB of FAST DDR5. It would make for one heck of a PLEX Server that can both handle the storage and encode/decode on the fly (for multiple output streams)! PLEASE make it happen Asustor! 🤞

@RetroPlayer4000 11 месяцев назад

Wishes not miracles kid

@prashanthb6521 11 месяцев назад

Add a few sata ports to connect HDDs and then with ZFS and caching this will be a fast NFS server.

@BlownMacTruck 10 месяцев назад

Why wouldn’t you just get a server at that point? You can get a 40 core 12 drive bay Plex monster with 128gb of ram for barely $400. And what would the point of having any APU be? Get a silent / tiny nvidia shield for your Plex client.

@desertlightning7335 10 месяцев назад

I mean, you could have a separate disk array.

@desertlightning7335 10 месяцев назад

@@BlownMacTruck Yeah, I bought my R720 for under $300 used. Yes it's power hungry, but it idles at less than 100 watts on average, has a shit ton of PCIe lanes and slots. a lot of SATA HDD slots etc. It runs TrueNAS Scale well and I haven't had really any major gripes. It's actually really quiet for a rack server. NVMe drives work fine with an adapter and so does a USB 3.0 card

@RayneYoruka Год назад

Finally this video dropped!

@Endelin 11 месяцев назад

I hope these do well enough to prove the market viability, and then better versions are made.

@justjoeblow420 Год назад

Honestly if it wasn't for the costs it would be perfect for my needs in a NAS, quite plenty of space and fast enough networking. I'd mostly want one for stuffing in a corner of my studio to sit there for sample and project storage so I can keep my massive library of samples and not have noise issues.

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

It is much quieter than HDD based NAS units.

@JSiuDev Год назад

Perfect backup system.

@diazrocks Год назад

A know a few small post houses and editors who woukd love to have these as their working / on progress NAS. They would love to have these. also, DIT / data wranglers on a film/video shoot would love these instead of relying on stacks of portable SSDs.

@Cristian-yj4gk Год назад

I would love for asustor to do a rackmount version of those

@FlaxTheSeedOne Год назад

I would love to see this with u.2/3 bays. Such that you can use them with used/old enterprise ssds this would make a greate alround storage then.

@accesser Год назад

Interesting, might be okay for a low power home lab storage , connect some NUC's (or similar) running ESXI/Proxmox to this as a storage mount

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

The 6x M.2 version is going to do exactly that in the TinyMiniMicro/ STH Mini PC lab

@michaelfragrances 8 месяцев назад

For Europe, such storage facilities will be relevant, especially for those who live on autonomous power from solar panels😎😎😎

@ServeTheHomeVideo 8 месяцев назад

European power is very expensive (relative to much of the US)

@denvera1g1 Год назад

I'd love something like this with an i3-1315u With a motherboard that supports 1x bifurcation. Imagine 16 drives, each with one PCIe 4.0 lane, and then the last 4 lanes going to 40G or 100G QSFP+ Would be a great portable all-in-one NAS, the only thing that would make it better, would be to take the 1360P, and instead of 4P+8E cores, trade the P cores for E cores. A micro NAS with 24 E cores, keeping the pretty decent 96EU XE graphics. I have older graphics and they still work pretty well with AI image recongnition. With that core count, support for 128GB of RAM, and 16 NVMe, a decent GPU, and high speed networking, this would actually be a pretty powerful server, but absolutely tiny. FYI, while i have no way to actually test this because Intel doesnt make a 14 P core dekstop processor, i can extrapolate that 24E cores offer the same performance as 12-16P cores, while using around 80w, instead of ~270w

@seethruhead7119 Год назад

What would be a good DIY solution to the 12 nic version of this. Seems like you would need a lot of pcie lanes and bifurcated nvme cards. Any actual hardware recommendations? Ideally similar price or cheaper.

@adamosity7127 Год назад

the reason there is four screws on the bottom is so the door doesn't rattle when fan is out of balance from dust.

@ShowXTech Год назад

Minisforum UM790 Pro Ryzen 9 7940HS: Zen 4 with RDNA3 and DDR5/LPDDR5 This is going to be wild, would love to see a Video on it.

@braixenflame4263 Год назад

Hey ServeTheHome, Thanks for yet again a great video, I could not help but notice that unlike other videos you did not cover the capabilities of the 10g port version. Normally you will say whether the 10g port does or does not support different lower speeds like 5, 2.5 or 1g. I was Not able to find this info on your site’s (STH) news article. I think this is key to know as you can only get 6 drives for the 2.5 ver but 12 for the 10g ver. For myself for example i have a 2.5g network at home only and would only buy the 12 bay ver for future proofing. - - - Could someone please comment if it supports the lower speeds and if so which ones? - - - Side question: does anyone know how well this would perform as a PLEX server? I assume transcoding would not work so only devices that direct play ect.

@winstonreid1395 Год назад

Perfect small truenas or xpenology candidate

@robertt9342 Год назад

I like the low latency that this would provide

@LobsterHarry Год назад

Thanks for the Video. I was already looking for this NAS. Great job ! Question 1: is it possible to connect it directly with a PC via USB to use the full speed ? Question 2: can I use WiFi in any way ?

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

1. I do not think so. 2. It does not have built-in WiFi. I think you can add it via USB but we only tried wired USB NICs that did not work. The ASUSTOR management interface has a USB WiFi setting though so it probably works

@MikeHarris1984 Год назад

That thing is pretty cool..... I dont know if I would use M.2 for NAS as there is a finite read/write they can do. I stick to spinning rust for my NAS. I use enterprise grade SAS drives in my disk shelf JBOD setup.

@Razor2048 Год назад

They should make a version that comes preconfigured to just work with 6-8 m.2 SSDs along with a connection for easy expansion using a DAS enclosure for bulk storage.

@DrMJJr Год назад

I’m sticking with the 32TB OWC ThunderBlade ✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽

@marc3793 Год назад

I've found SMB Multichannel a pain in the ass to get consistently working on Windows 10. What OS was running on the clients for these tests? Also, do the NICs have DMA support?

@boxcar1818 4 месяца назад

I was able to bump the RAM to 32Gb with 2 16GB Corsair Vengeance Performance 3200MHZ DDR4. Been running NAS continuously for over 3 months now without a single hiccup whatsoever👍

@GiulianoMazzina Год назад

Man, I love to see if I could set up one of those as the "cache drive" for my actual server and have it backup to HDD at night.

@ksampler6183 Год назад

I’m sure you already know, you guys circled the Kensington lock when you said “Optical Audio” 😉 Would you still trust Asustor after the whole ransomware thing? Great video like always!

@leonwang4207 Год назад

This ransomware happened on Synology & QNap too.

@VillSid Год назад

I built an SSD media machine for my parents because of low noise... problem was limited storage and large size... I would love to stick in behind the TV but it would be even better if it was fanless.

@user-ht6qt6zv1c Год назад

1995 - 1TB near time Backup Silo with 3490 tapes $1 MIL USD. Including Robotic Arm assembly and interface controller.

@RapManCZ 10 месяцев назад

I hope Synology will release a similar model with the DSM...

@Sir_Bini 10 месяцев назад

I'm not surprised it kept crashing with higher capacity RAM because the Intel Celeron N5105 supports a maximum of 16GB of DDR4 at 2933MHz. I imagine as soon as the system deposits data onto memory outside of the 16-gig-pool the CPU recognizes, it freaks out and goes "Derp, poof!"

@playswithblades Год назад

Product naming so hostile to hosts speaking with a lisp. Looks amazing, I got an itch now, thank you very much.

@Canadianblaken Месяц назад

Home assistant as well? Because that would be fun.

@richardsims3819 Год назад

This is great and all but how do you make the storage cheaper?

@emilypeters8888 Год назад

like the idea but would like to see at least a 20 pcie 4.0 lane capable chip option, that said chip makers need to make cheap/lower end chips with higher native lane counts for these style applications to offer high speed style nas

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

I totally agree with you. One of the big challenges is that amount of PCIe Gen4 lanes / controllers makes a chip higher power these days :-(

@bagamax Год назад

Great NAS! I wish there will be a rack mount version of this with inegrated PSU, or an optional casemod.

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

I wish. Rack mount is a bit hard for the serviceability of the units with double sided components

@bagamax Год назад

@@ServeTheHomeVideo it's easy to construct a 1u case where the board will mount to the walls in mid height so both top and bottom lids will be openable. Such volume management is just historically unpopular, 1 lid cases few cents cheaper in production.

@boxrick1 Год назад

ECC support? Can you install your own OS?

@djole02 Год назад

@4:02 looks like the animation is showing the kensington lock port instead of the TOSLINK ports.

@salnegromusic Год назад

Can I use the Asustor Flashstor FS6706T 2.5GbE NAS to connect to my Mac Studio for storage?

@MarkEichin Год назад

(I've since seen this box reviewed a bunch of places, but you were the first, from my perspective at least...) I just replaced a pair of HP Proliant boxes with a lot of 3.5" spinning rust, with the little version of this and raid-6 over 6x2T. *vast* upgrade, quieter, cooler, faster in every way. Shoved ubuntu 23.04 on it (8G onboard is way too small, but it's enough to get going with setup until I carved off a mirror of some extra space on two of the slightly larger SSDs for the root disk - turns out 50G is decent for an OS install, and *round off error* for 2T SSD sizes :-) Also maxed out the RAM. (For all the complaints about it being underpowered - for me, it was a cheap upgrade for a cheap homelab setup, if anything it was overpowered.)

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

Glad you have had a good experience thus far! We have been using both of these daily

@Fyr042 Год назад

I dont understand why you use P3 *plus* which is a PCIe Gen4 while the Celeron N5105 CPU only support PCIe Gen 3. In this case P3 (without plus) is ok ? I have an other question : How many PCI lane per SSD drive ? Thanks for your video.

@CarmeloSoy 10 месяцев назад

thanks for your review. I'm about to go for the 12-bay one but I have doubts. It is only for Max studio in 10gb network. could you configure 2x2tb raid 1 (Time Machine) 4x2 raid 5 for Final Cut? and 2x2 raid 1 for Max applications and the nas itself? Could you do it little by little? first system apps then finalcut…. etc (for not having to spend all of one. Would you be able to do that and manage the different raids? Obviously you would look at the ram you have and expand it. Do you know what the Maximum is? I understand it will be ddr4 or dimm 2666? Thanks for your attention

@wyattarich Год назад

Did you try single & dual rank 32GB sticks?

@sanders5417 Год назад

Load 'er up with Sabrent 8 TB M.2 next!

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

Our old SSD reviewer now does marketing at Sabrent. We talked about it. I think 12x $1K 8TB drives puts the cost of the system into the price range you are better off getting a higher-performance NAS.

@sanders5417 Год назад

@@ServeTheHomeVideo Of course, but it would have been funny and interesting to see it decked out to the maximum it can do.

@nicekeyboardalan6972 Год назад

I agree lol sounds funny since this thing is such a POS in a way lol

@JeffGeerling Год назад

@@ServeTheHomeVideo haha but you can do it for the memes!

@velociraptor5962 Год назад

There should be a usb c connection on the 12 version to connect directly to a computer, as well as that 10gbe. Pretty good, and tempting, to be able to store, but also do cheap vms.

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

Super idea. I think the N5105 is limited in terms of high-speed IO lanes. This is already pushing the platform pretty far. Hopefully on a refresh that would be possible.

@redtails Год назад

with how loud helium drives are when accessing data, I can see why you'd want to go flash. Can't wait for a few more years of downwards- spiraling flash prices. It really shouldn't be that expensive to make flash storage when done as efficiently as possible without emphasizing speed.

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

Yes. We had a QNAP NAS that we will be reviewing on the main site in the next week or two next to these. The noise difference is very noticeable.

@Emma__Smith Год назад

I was just about to buy one of the 12 pro, but I bet now because of the video they will be sold out for a few years hahaha

@SRMB1 3 месяца назад

Hows the plex/jellyfin performance w a celeron? Thanks for vid?

@kungfujesus06 Год назад

The HDMI port on the thing is a strange addition. Did they intend it to be connected to a display? I mean I guess it might help troubleshooting but that's not a typical appliance.

@Ryzza5 Год назад

I'd eventually look at someting like this. My old QNAP is just annoying noisy.

@hausm3ister 6 месяцев назад

I kind of get it, but since they don't need pcie drives for performance, you could also build something like it with Sata SSDs which could make it cheaper as there are less pcie lane issues. At least for DIY you could get the same results with sata for cheaper, but probably not easily in that small space.

@74357175 11 месяцев назад

Very cool! How does is the power consumption you measures compare with HDD NAS setups?

@ServeTheHomeVideo 11 месяцев назад

The system is the same given the same CPU/ NICs/ components. The SSDs tend to use less power, but you need more of them for a given capacity.

@74357175 11 месяцев назад

@@ServeTheHomeVideo ah, good point! So there's an effective power consumption per TB.

@stowgood Год назад

Looks pretty ccol!

@advX Год назад

Cool nas using ssd's, but i think the fan is not enough, so how to maintain the temp at least?

@jmespoii 8 месяцев назад

@servethehome So if I'm following, you are not recommending this for a 4k video use NAS. Correct?

@UltimateByte Год назад

Hey thanks for the video! Where is the OS installed on it? Can you put a distro like TrueNAS?

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

There is 8GB onboard eMMC. Some folks have installed Linux on it.

@UltimateByte Год назад

@@ServeTheHomeVideo Good to know, thanks a lot! This should also be doable DIY, with more power consumption :)

@CloudybayTee Год назад

as per intel spec N5105 only allows 16GB ram seriously, they should go for N100 or N305 already and get 1 extra pcie lanes to play with.

@ServeTheHomeVideo Год назад

I agree. We have a N305 review recorded and just waiting on editing. That is a really interesting chip.

@matthewlee913 11 месяцев назад

The link to the 712X is directing to the 706T

@ServeTheHomeVideo 11 месяцев назад

These went OOS when we published it. Then others have reviewed so the stock is an issue.

@Erin-Thor 11 месяцев назад

I have an old 5 bay Synology with 4+1 14 TB drives installed. It works well, but… it would be interesting to upgrade it, due to longevity of SSD’s. But NAS systems are essentially dependent on their software. Who makes the software for these units? It would be nice to know the features and stats.

@rightwingsafetysquad9872 Год назад

How much more would this cost with something like a Ryzen 7600? Way more PCIe lanes and still fairly low power consumption. I guess at that point you're fairly close to a mITX system with an expansion card, but the compact form factor is still desirable.

@huplim Год назад

Thank you for bringing this to my attention! Looks like a PS4 though 😅

Год назад

Optical audio out via the Kensington lock? :P

@tonykaye2 Год назад

It would be nice if they had a configuration for rack mount with built in power supply and everything ( status lights, power button usb connection, etc) up front.

@michael1t 9 месяцев назад

two questions Can I use the SABRENT 8TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD Extreme in the Asustor Flashstor FS6712X ? Also , I is use only 8 Slot of the 12 slot ssd with 8 drives @4tb m.2 ssds?

@malicious217 Год назад

Why does your ps4 look weird? Seriously though these are neat. Seems like a good small form factor NAS

@michael1t 2 месяца назад

Hello I bought the Asustor Flashstor FS6712X and I love it ... But I added a extra SSD and Broke the plastic clip that holds it in place ... I have tryed to contact asustor not response . It would be great if you could post a link on how to buy replacement clips and show how to replace them ....Thanks Love Your site and videos Michael T.

@Elkarlo77 11 месяцев назад

Considering the price they are a steal. I just rebuilded my Homeserver and to lower the Powerconsumption i got myself a PCIE 16 to 4nvme Card. The Board doesn't support Bidurication so the PCIE Switching Card costs around 200 Bucks alone. I have some old HDD as cheap Data dumps too. My Problem would that i have some VM's running with RDP on my Homeserver. (Gaming-Server, Virus Sandbox etc) so the performance wouldn't be enough. It would make a great Network Device. I think a nice 6/12 CPU from Intel/AMD, like an 12400/13400 or 5600G/7600. The possibility to upgrade with 64GB ECC as top of the line modell of the Asustor Series would be great. It would require more Cooling, but make a 1HE oder 2HE capable Housing and you got a great Microserver, especially the 12 NVME Slot Version. The 750$ Version is a little underpowered with the CPU, 150-200$ more a bigger CPU and more Ram and it would be a real great product.

@moparneon00 Год назад

Would you think this would be a great upgrade solution for hosting a plex server. I currently use asustor 4bay system for my plex server. Also does this support raid 5?