Asustor AS-5102T NAS review

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/30/2015 09:32 AM [ 8 comment(s) ]

A NAS unit armed with a smooth software DNA and priced competitive against the big guns in the industry like Qnap, Synology and Netgear; a year or two ago Asustor entered the market. We review the AS5102T NAS. We went blank into this review as we never had tested this brand before, but with very good hardware and an excellent software suite the AS5102T is not only a fast file server, it's also loaded with applications, streaming and HTPC functionality as well.

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shymi
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Posts: 147

Posted on: 04/30/2015 10:49 AM

Hilbert, the chart with data size conversion is a little strange. 1 KB = 1024 bytes, but why is 1 MB also 1024(1MB = 1024KB I presume)? Same with MB row and KB and GB columns.

DiceAir
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Posts: 1341

Posted on: 04/30/2015 11:36 AM

I must running older version as-604T in the office and amazing quality and performance. Wish you guys can review some of the AS70 series for some serious workload. They also added support for Virtualbox so you can run windows, mac and linux in the same box.

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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Posted on: 04/30/2015 12:03 PM

Hilbert, the chart with data size conversion is a little strange. 1 KB = 1024 bytes, but why is 1 MB also 1024(1MB = 1024KB I presume)? Same with MB row and KB and GB columns.

Combine the X and Y axis and you'll understand.

stdavidchen
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Posts: 18

Posted on: 04/30/2015 02:25 PM

With large files and a fast enough HDD over a Gigabit connection you will reach 100 Mb/sec on read and writes, likely even higher. So for this type of connection, really it can hardly go any faster.

I jumped directly to check the conclusion and 100 Mb/sec is really scaring me ....

Check back page of "NAS performance", I think it should be 100MB/sec, right?

Hilbert Hagedoorn
Don Vito Corleone

Posts: 32932

Posted on: 04/30/2015 03:05 PM

Definitely, let me fix that.

shymi
Senior Member

Posts: 147

Posted on: 05/01/2015 10:39 AM

Combine the X and Y axis and you'll understand.

I see, so it's on purpose not unidirectional conversion in the whole table.
So for the KB row it is:
KB -> B
KB -> KB(1 here)
KB <- MB
KB <- GB

Need more coffee before posting. Sorry about the previous comment

BLEH!
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Posts: 5766

Posted on: 05/01/2015 12:42 PM

Looks cool. How much is it, though? Couldn't see a price anywhere.

TheSarge
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Posts: 799

Posted on: 05/02/2015 04:47 AM

Wow, that is a serious little machine. I don't need anything like that but if I did then I might want this.

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