Came for technical comparison, ended in religious fight. Fuck that.

Do I need to save all my data before installing? New to hardrive game. I have an external hard drive available for storage but also want to upgrade my internal storage.

I used to work for a company that made NC tool grinders (I wont say who they are) BUT... while I was there I worked in R&D and was involved in some pretty hi level meetings. The one that sticks in my mind is the one in which I talked to the company marketing director, who I earlier found was an engineer (I am not an engineer but work in R&D), and I asked him WHY he would want to go to the dark side (marketing), and he said 'marketing drives the sales process', he was sick of going to marketing meetings as the head of engineering and the marketing people said 'we aim to market this in the 3rd week of quarter 2 this year'..... to which I said 'thats too optamistic, we wont be ready by then' Then the owner of the company said 'that sounds feasible' and that was pretty much the end of the meeting....... 'I was stuck holding my d*ck in my hand, trying to achieve the impossible'. This guy then decided to get on the RIGHT side of the equation and he signed up to do a marketing degree the following week. Since then, his life as been much EASIER......... I cant feel that UGREEN, with the release of this product was just like that. The problem is, near enough is not good enough for the end user.

Guys, Asustor…we need quick sync in this machines…any intel version please

Exciting..wish this came out before the Ugreen Kickstarter closed😔 Will keep an eye on this for a second node... Looks promising...v1 of this was disappointing 🙂 Why only one usb4 port and no thunderbolt?

OH F*CK, I originally bought a DS416 only to find out it doesnt do the things I want (BTRFS and Virtual machines). I Just the other week bought myself a DS423+, it literally arrived on friday....... PLEASE dont tel me I have wasted my friggin money AGAIN!!!!!

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Are there space in these cases to add a discrete gpu (Plex) ? I don't expect the Iris graphics is particulary viable if at all as video encoding.

@ASUSTOR-YT @NASCompares .... I own a Flashstor Gen1 with 12 Crucial P3 4TB drives. After long thoughts, I went for a Raid6 with BTRFS. You wanted questions, here they are : 1- will I be able to upgrade to gen2 by just moving my drives from a gen1 to gen2 device without losing my data? 2- Will I be able to reuse the heatsinks I bought for the gen1 in the gen2? 3- Will there be an OS upgrade for gen1 to be the same as gen2? 4- Will you finally explain more clearly in your OS what happens under the hood? Per say, please explain directly that doing a Raid with BTRFS doesn't use the BTRFS raid feature. It's using software Madm to build the Raid, then the BTRFS on top of it. Which is a good thing! Especially since BTRFS has still some Raid 5/6 issues if you use BTRFS Raidi 5/6 internal feature instead of an external Raid layer. 5- Will the dual RJ45 allow the NAS to receive a 10Gb link and be then connected through the other 10Gb port to a switch with a 10Gb port and let's say 8 x1Gb ports while allowing switch peripherals to passthrough the NAS? 6-Why no integrated GPU or optional card slot for people needing it?

Does it support an external GPU (for Plex transcoding)?

You didn’t even open it up. Also Hire a writer please.

Americans have no idea what penny farthing means. FYI

Just a heads up on ddr5 and ecc. All ddr5 are ecc to handle the higher speeds.

How do you enable the password on a self-encrypting enterprise drive? I just got an Exos x24 SED and was going to just put it straight into my PC, but there seem to be no way to activate the SED functionality. Do you have to put them in a NAS to enable the encryption? Been a long time since you've talked about the Exos series of drives. I've been unable to find anyone who talks in dept of the SED functionality of enterprise drives.

I do Wish on the none pro it was just 1 10g port instead of 2 5g i and so wish they picked a different cpu

Love the watch! I'm rocking a Casio OCW-T200. I enjoy your videos very much. I also just realized I haven't been subscribed. 😆

I use reverse proxy with custom domain, that way my family don’t have to bother with any VPN app. For someone to hack my NAS would have to get through router/cloudflare/synology firewalls, figure out my custom domain, find correct ports for dsm, surveillance center, etc, figure out username and get through 2fa.

I jumped and cringed every time you threw those SSD's....😂😂

Ummm Mosaic?

Getting into Nas, Thanks a bunch for this vid. I really appreciate the step by step and digestible explanations.

This would have been perfect if it included an HDMI output for an easier way of accessing the bios. I would maybe have considered getting it then. That said, I don't see much use for this for me after backing the 6-bay and 8-bay UGreen NAS'es recently on Kickstarter as those also have dual 10GbE ports and dual m.2 Nvme SSD support and that's more than enough for me since I don't run many VMs.

Has this been resolved?

Now I'm kind of regretting going with U.2 SSDs for my server machine instead of M.2. Secondhand enterprise drives were cheaper than they would've been on M.2, but they don't fit in devices like this.

Is Quickconnect limited by the firewall? Example, I set a specific IP rule for just my country, but then I send a Quickconnect link to someone in a different country. Will they be blocked?

Ryzon (its what you said) does not have transcoding (GPU) does it?

You didn't mention Ugreen once ....did they miss this weeks payment?

when you doing a build video?

Excellent presentation. Thank you. Looking forward to some detailed testing on it. That said, with the PCIE4x1 and 12 of them, it needs to be able to fully saturate for both reads and writes the 10gb network ports and honestly both network ports since it has 2 of them. We are seeing a lot of these new devices with SSDs not really perform as you might expect over a 10gb port. Maybe this one will do it.

Why any manufacturer would release a home/SMB NAS without Intel Quick Sync or a PCIe slot escapes me. Don't something like 80 percent of home NAS uses run Plex or Jellyfin or something like that? It's a misshapen thing, isn't it?

i think it's time to move on from 10G to faster networks because it's too easy to saturate the 10G connection, and nvmes operate at so much faster speeds, it's such a shame not to be able to remotely utilize all this speed over ethernet connection. i'm still not sure whether it's better to get a device like this or a device with pcie slot where you can place a 40/100G network adapters. even a usb connection is four times faster. the NAS situation nowadays are kind of sad that sometimes directly attaching an SSD over thunderbolt (so about 2800MB/s) is a better way to go if you're looking for speed.

Due to bit decay, hard drives will not be abandoned; Nvme is super fast, but it simply is not long lasting. Buyer beware.

I wonder how they're getting away with selling a 32GB RAM option when the N305 is officially listed as 16GB max.

I really like these little mini topics.. AND. When it is on something I am struggling with.. I have an old synology nas with two 1gb ports.. I am updating my network to support 2.5 and 10tb speeds.. I started with link aggregation.. after a lot of looking I found a switch at $300 can which had 8 1gb and on 10gb.. I don’t want to spend that kind of money on old tech. So.. I discarded the link aggregation option.. your mention of smb multi link excited me…. My pc’s have 2 ports so.. giddy up.. I read a bunch and then the disappointment…. You need v7.2. Sadly I am on v6.2. I configured then nas with two addresses and the pc with two addresses.. all the traffic goes to the main address…. Guess it is time to get a more modern nas..😢

Hello Mathew, I hope this comment finds you well. May I ask you a question. Is this the same size in height as the TS-453E?

What options we have that are somewhat affordable and have copper 10gb ports?

Can you create a hybrid NAS with Synology unit 423+? Sorry for the 'dumb' question!

How many TB do I need, if I want to store my porn collection?

Is there a nas motherboard with 3 or 4x 10GbE and 6 sata ports?

If they continue along this path, maybe we'll see a decent u.2 nas with sfp28 and a gpu in a year or two... Now that will be an absolute killer

I want to fight the NASCompares guy at a bar

Me and my 22 TB looking at TrueNAS Scale and a HL15 😅

The only problem i see with this is whatever without Intel quicksync it will be no good for transcoding. Then again, i don't do it, so i don't care

Hope you plan more panels. This is a very interesting perspective that pushes past manufacturer specs. Thank you.

I cannot put this on my ups-lan-nas place because it is 20x110cm shelf. It is perfect other than that.

Is there a NAS that is just very simply a hdd on the network? I really don’t need all the faf of different apps for pics, vids etc like synology has.

I heard "1 baby station." 🍼

Switch to Ryzen killed this instantly for me. Disabling the iGPU in the Ryzen processor were the rest of the nails in the coffin.

Lol, I don't need any of the products you review but I keep coming back because you are great entertainment. Always positive vibes, always current information, always excellent advice to the consumer. Thank you.

Nice try, but no Intel Quicksync = No Sale. I need video hardware encoding/decoding. This means AT LEAST an Intel n100 CPU. Stick a n100 CPU in this and I will buy INSTANTLY!