Asustor Lockerstor 10 AS6510T - 10 Bay NAS, 2.1GHz Quad-Core, 2 M.2 NVMe SSD Slot, 10GbE Port, 2.5GbE Port, 8GB RAM DDR4, Enterprise Network Attached Storage (Diskless)

I got this to help back up my Synology system after an energy spike damaged 2 drives. after rebuilding the drives, i was able to start the backup process. I was surprised on how easy it is to mount other non-Synology Nas drives. There are YouTube videos on how to do this. I have not tested the ethernet 10gb connections as I am limited at the moment to 1 and 2.5 connections. my home network is setup for only 1gb connections So far this system is running find. but i have noisy hard drives. i bought. mounting this system to the Synology. allowed me to triple my storage on my Synology

Love It. Makes watching movies much easier. Not a steep learning curve to setup.but still room to add features and learn more

I have TWO of these things because the price is so sweet (looking at you synology) - so 20 drives in total.First thing I've done in all of them - install RAM (up to 64 GB) and SSDs (two). These devices have a read/write SSD cache mode which I find unimpressive - it's okay, you can set up the SSDs as a separate high speed array and I recommend that.The 10gbit LAN connections have worked without issue. The i/o and latency is solid, I use both windows file sharing (CIFS/SAMBA) and linux (NFS)Most importantly, I just had my second drive failure (RAID6). Buzzer was off. I keep it by my desk, and it just pops up a red light on the bad drive tray - so you don't need to figure out which drive is bad, that red light tells you exactly where the issue is. I login to the web interface, see SMART error, so simply popped out the drive (while it is running), replaced the bad drive with a good one, and put that tray back in -- all while the system was running. The system automatically detected the new drive and began rebuilding the array - impressive data preservation! Now, I haven't investigated to see if this drive was ACTUALLY that bad, but I can say it was up for about 3 years before this, so it's not a common issue, and it's best practice to be cautious with un-backed-up RAID arraysThese are all great, but I do want to mention one bad thing which has struck this and many other NAS devices - hacking. Hackers will encrypt all the files and require bitcoin $ to decrypt. Asustor was historically hacked as such. I don't run any services that expose the box to the internet, and my box worked just fine through it all. Just be very careful, though, if you intend to both store important data on these AND connect it to the internet, it would be hacking vulnerable.

This is my 5th NAS box. I have a netgear readnas 104, 2 4tb wdmyclouds and a 16tb WDMycloud ultra. This box was purchased with two 12tb Segate enterprise drives. I did put 2 more in later and that's why it's only getting a 4 star rating. I added the other 2 drives after I put about 6tb of movies on it and it took 3 days to spread the data out to the 3rd/4th drive. It sometimes doesn't let me connect via my network and takes a minute or two to wake up. I once accidentally unplugged it and it 8 hours to "recover". Though it wasn't doing anything during the time of unplugging. I added a M2 card (500gb) and that helps with performance but it's not something that knocks your socks off. So, at the end of the day, I'm happy with it. It's an improvement over my Netgear box but it shoudl be for the cost. It has a crap load of apps and even some of them are useful. I've yet to plug it directly into my TV using it's HDMI 2.0 port but that's coming. I'm happy with the box except the time it takes to spread the data. I can only imagine how long it will take if I ever loose a drive (running raid 5). I was going to go with RAID 6 but I didn't want to eat 2 of my 4 drives for "safety". Would I recommend this box? Yes. Is it a speed deamon? Not as far as I'm concerned. But it is faster then my Netgear but can't say that for my WDMycloud ultra box. They seem about the same.

I have a Qnap TS-451A NAS, which I got years ago. I spent months trying to set up a 4 drives RAID 5. Changed drives a few times, always using the ones listed as compatible. For those months, I would keep getting than drive 3 & 4 needed to be replaced -- regardless of which drive I put there, forcing me to rebuild the RAID. I gave up, and since then I've been using it with a single drive. I like the apps you can run, especially for me who do IoT development.I recently got the Asustor AS6604T NAS. Upgrade it the RAM to 12GB, put 4 drives on it, turned on and, just like that, it automatically created a RAID 5. It just worked. I'm in the process of transitioning my Docker container to the Asustor. It is much faster than the Qnap -- part because it has the latest hardware. Construction-wise, it well built. I love it!