ASUSTOR 12-bay all-M.2 NVMe SSD NAS Review
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anticupidon
That's a PSP!
Joking aside, that a smart design. Asus always had a knack for sharp egdes and angles.
Nevertheless, the ultimate goal is performance and oh boy, that's aplenty.
All NVMe NAS is what is coming next and for the lower priced model, it is not that the expensive I previously thought.
rl66
It is already not so expensive as PCIe3 M2 have dropped again, you can have it with 12 X 4To specialised for NAS use and 16G of ram below 9k Euro.
With the advantage to be able to travel in a suitcase around the world (thx to the external psu)... 29w...
Interesting, really interesting.
Segamon
what the PS5 should've looked like.
tunejunky
i bought the six bay (Flashstor 6 FS6706T) on release, have had it for two months, couldn't be happier.
two years ago Asus/Rog released a m.2 enclosure (single stick) for an external drive. i bought it despite the "bedazzled" rgb look because i was fed up with crappy m.2 enclosures at the time - even though it was expensive ($85) for what it was, but portability was a necessity for my laptop.
for my desktop i was using a six year old QNAP that replaced a home built server (from legacy parts) and the speed was lacking and the size meant running it from a closet... with all the diy that wiring entailed.
right now i don't have the Asustor fully populated, but i'm running four 4Tb pcie 3.0 (Silicon Power) and i like having the room to expand if and when i need to.
this thing rocks and has been the best network investment i've ever made
schmidtbag
Seems there must be a configuration issue given the idle power consumption is hardly lower than load. I also would think the CPU is a bit underpowered to handle that many NVMe drives. Otherwise pretty cool product and fair price.
anticupidon
I'll wait for the second revision of this .
Or other manufacturer who is willing to put the Celeron N100 (or other Alder Lake) inside a NVMe NAS
illrigger
The CPU has a total of 4 PCIe lanes, so yeah, it's going to bottleneck pretty fast with a lot of I/O across 6+ drives even with them running at x1 bandwidth. For most home or small business scenarios it's going to be fine, but don't expect miracles. The m.2 is more for future-proofing and the form factor than any performance increase - a standard NAS with SATA SSDs is going to be just as fast in almost every scenario, but you'll spend about the same if not more for a 12-bay SATA NAS.
rl66
The multiple controlers does it for the CPU, CPU handle only the result...
It's a NAS and not like a PC despite having a x86 CPU (it could have been ARM, or other type of CPU).
The Goose
LTT has a review on it, seems like a pretty solid piece of kit until something similar comes along.
anticupidon
Hats off for Asus for breaking the ice.
Surely, other major NAS manufacturers will follow along.
Mojojoe
That idle power usage caught me off guard too. I would hope that even a 10Gbe controller would have better energy management when idle. Hilbert, did you get a chance to measure idle power usage with a lower speed connection?
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Yes, power consumption remains the same.
Venix
You are already held back by the 10gbps (1gb/sec) network I do not think the 4xpcie will be even remotely a problem
PinguX
Reminds me of the PS3 super slim
The PCI-E bandwidth and single 10gb ethernet port are massive bottlenecks to PCI-E 3 SSDs
High price tags considering the compromises they made
rl66
Also most real pro M2 are still in PCIe 3 (because doing it with samsung pro or QLV would lead to... well you know... lol 🙂 )
So i agree the net will be more a limit most of the time (an acceptable limit for this kind of NAS)
I have tested myself a 4 PCIe M2 NAS (QNAP i guess) and it was already like that.
But even in team work it was damn good despite it was only 2T M2 unit in it.
I haven't get it due to the oportunity to get a rusty renault car (the R10 that i am working on)
iiee
Just bought FS6712X and put 6 dram-less kingston nv2 ssd. Raid5, the big file sequential write performance is very poor, only 330MB/s & read is about 790MB/s. Even if i add another 6 ssd, i will not get more than 600MB/s write speed. In the review 3 ssd with raid 5 is getting 1GB/s write. Is dram-less ssd really that useless?
tunejunky
for this application, yes
