FLASHSTOR 6 FS6706T and FLASHSTOR 12 Pro FS6712X – ASUSTOR’s first all-M.2 SSD NAS
ASUSTOR has launched its fastest NAS devices ever, the all-NVMe Flashstor 6 and Flashstor 12 Pro. These are ASUSTOR’s first dedicated PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMe SSD NAS, providing unmatched performance in a NAS device. Both devices are equipped with Intel’s newest generation of 10 nm Quad-Core Intel Celeron N5105 that boosts up to 2.9 GHz. They have 4 GB of energy-efficient DDR4 -2933 RAM and dual USB 3.2 Gen 2×1, ensuring that bottlenecks are a thing of the past. The Flashstor 6 has six M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs and dual 2.5GbE for amazing performance while the Flashstor 12 Pro comes with twelve M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs combined with 10GbE for unmatched speed.
The biggest advantage of the Flashstor series NAS is that it is all-NVMe, unlike previous versions, and has USB 10Gb/s ports and 10GbE ethernet. The Flashstor series is specifically designed for M.2 SSDs, and its chassis makes it easy to add or remove SSDs by removing the chassis screws. For extra cooling, the Flashstor comes with heatsinks that help more powerful SSDs to receive the cooling they need for optimal performance, while remaining quiet at as low as 18.7 decibels.
The Flashstor series also has advantages in terms of design, security, and media consumption. It is light and portable, efficiently cooled and quiet, and specifically designed for M.2 SSDs. It has S/PDIF and 4K60-capable HDMI as specified in the HDMI 2.0 spec for clear and lossless content consumption. When playing back 4K, the Flashstor supports hardware transcoding, resulting in smooth 4K video.
The Flashstor series is equipped with ADM 4.2, which brings numerous security fixes and a number of quality-of-life updates and feature updates as well. ADM continues its tradition of providing more than two hundred apps that cover everything from home entertainment to office applications, providing a stable and custom storage environment that is efficient and holistic.
The Flashstor 6 and Flashstor 12 Pro come with an MSRP of $449 and $799 respectively. They support RAID 0/1 /5 /6 /10, Single, JBOD, and Wake on LAN and Wake on WAN. The Flashstor 6 provides up to 590 MB/s of read performance and 590 MB/s of write performance in SMB Multichannel, while the Flashstor 12 Pro gives up to 1181 MB/s of read performance and 1027 MB/s of write performance respectively. Hard drives are not disallowed on the Flashstor. Simply connect an AS6004U to use hard drives for easy lower-speed capacity and archive data with MyArchive to be ready for any storage need.
FLASHSTOR 6 FS6706T
- Quad-Core 10 nm Intel Celeron N5105 CPU
- 6x M.2 NVMe slots – PCIe 3.0
- Dual Superfast 2.5-Gigabit Ethernet ports
- 4 GB of fast and efficient DDR4-2933 RAM
- Dual USB 3.2 Gen 2×1
- HDMI 2.0b
- S/PDIF output for amazing sound quality
- Smooth 4K hardware transcoding
- Supports Wake on WAN and Wake on LAN
FLASHSTOR 12 Pro (FS6712X)
- Quad-Core 10 nm Intel Celeron N5105 CPU
- 12x M.2 NVMe slots – PCIe 3.0
- Megafast 10-Gigabit Ethernet
- 4 GB of fast and efficient DDR4-2933 RAM
- Dual USB 3.2 Gen 2×1
- HDMI 2.0b
- S/PDIF output for amazing sound quality
- Smooth 4K hardware transcoding
- Supports Wake on LAN
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| CPU | Intel Celeron N5105 Quad-Core 2.0GHz (burst up 2.90 GHz) Processor | Intel Celeron N5105 Quad-Core 2.0GHz (burst up 2.90 GHz) Processor |
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| Hardware Acceleration Engine | H.264 (AVC),H.265(HEVC), MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-2, VC-1 | H.264 (AVC),H.265(HEVC), MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-2, VC-1 |
| Memory | 4GB SO-DIMM DDR4 (4GB x1, Expandable. Max 16GB) | 4GB SO-DIMM DDR4 (4GB x1, Expandable. Max 16GB) |
| M.2 Drive Slots | 6 x NVMe/SATA PCIe 3.0 | 12 x NVMe/SATA PCIe 3.0 |
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| Maximum Drive Bays with Expansion Unit | 14 | 20 |
| Supports Single Volume Larger Than 16TB | |
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| Expansion | 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2×1; 2 x USB 2.0 | 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2×1; 2 x USB 2.0 |
| Network | 2x 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet (2.5G/1G/100M) | 1 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M/10M) |
| PCIe Expansion Slots | – | – |
| LCD Panel | – | – |
| Size | 48.3 (H) x 308.26 (W) x 193 (D) mm | 48.3 (H) x 308.26 (W) x 193 (D) mm |
| Weight | 1.35kg / 2.98 lb | 1.37 kg / 3 lb |
| Input Power Voltage | External Power Adaptor: 65W x1 100V to 240V AC |
External Power Adaptor: 90W x1 100V to 240V AC |
| Power Consumption | 18.2 W (Operation); 0.83 W (Sleep Mode) |
26 W (Operation); |
| Volume Type | Single disk, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10 | Single disk, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10 |
| HDMI Output | 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x S/PDIF | 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x S/PDIF |
| Infrared Receiver | – | – |
| Audio Output | S/PDIF x1 | S/PDIF x1 |
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| MyArchive Disk Bays | 5 | 11 |
| Service LED Indicator | – | – |
| Redundant power supply | – | – |
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| Max. Resolution | 2160P 4K | 2160P 4K |
| File Sharing | ||
| Maximum Number of Users | 4096 | 4096 |
| Maximum Number of Groups | 512 | 512 |
| Maximum Number of Shared Folders | 512 | 512 |
| Maximum Number of Concurrent Connections | 512 | 512 |
| iSCSI | ||
| Maximum Targets | 256 | 256 |
| Maximum LUNs | 256 | 256 |
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| VMware Ready | NFS, iSCSI | NFS, iSCSI |
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| Auto-Standby for Both Internal and External Disks | |
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| System Automatically Enters Sleep Mode (Schedule S3) | |
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| Max. No. of VPN Server Connections | 20 | 20 |
| Surveillance Center | ||
| Max. No. of Supported Cameras (With Add-On Licenses) | 44 | 44 |
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Probably a great review video, but I have to say that I don’t understand point #1. I could puke looking at this device, and I wouldn’t even want to put it into a closed cabinet. It’s a great device in terms of functionality and price, I’d definitely want to see more of these on the market, but the design really rubs me the wrong way.
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Do you have any cpu heat issues? I’ve read on Reddit that some said there is design flaw that the contact of the cpu heatsink isn’t contacted correctly to the CPU
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The M.2 is still moving data at much faster than the Ethernet speed.
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Most gen4 SSDs are available with heatsinks, so that issue is solved. Quite an appealing device, this, and the HCL lists a lot of consumer SSDs.
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I am debating between DIY vs Terramaster F4-423 (currently at $399) vs this unit (Flashtor 6). I’ll be using it for basic storage and remote cloud access (Gdrive GPhotos replacement potentially Home Plex Server). What do you recommend?
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Seriously considering one of these. M.2 is cheaper than SATA for flash storage.
Any other storage appliance offering a good option for flash storage is incredibly expensive.
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Too much talking, not enough substance just couldn’t spend any more time on this
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I think the worst Problem is realy the CPU. If Asus has used something like an AMD V1500B or an R2314 with 15 Watts but 16 PCIE 3.0 lanes, they could use 4 lanes for the NIC’s and USB which would be enough to even saturate a dual 10gbit NIC and 2 10gbit USB 3.2 Ports at the same time. That the NVME only run at 1GB/s or 2GB/s at the Store 6 wouldn’t be the problem. But with intel there are no efficient 16 lanes processors, so you have to go AMD which is notorious problematic at providing embedded Prozessors, Synology has some around.
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After watching your reviews we have bought the Flashstor 12 for our video editing NAS. Great so far. One of our editing laptops is older and only can support 2.5Gb ethernet adapter speeds due to USB 3.1 Gen 1 bottleneck. If I got a second 2.5Gb adapter is it possible to set it up to get 2x 2.5Gb throughput❓ If so what do I need and how do I set it up❓
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Thank you for the review of this product.
I have been giving consideration to it and the form factor along with the SSD’s does have an appeal. This would be a home use application that does have SD, HD and 4k movies. There is also a fairly large amount of music files as MP3 and video as well. Other than that, it’s all about data and the combined volume is in and around 7TB. Again; home use two users.
The question: what Drives of good quality would you recommend? I also understand through reading, the device is RAID capable. Is that part correct?
In advance, thank you!
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The product shows registered, but the website says it’s not, so I can’t open a ticket. I leave voice messages with Asustor and they don’t return my calls. I’m kind of stuck and not happy with their support. The 12 bay unit is displaying errors when I scrub and sometimes says the resource is not available. I don’t have these kinds of issues with NAS units from other brands. I’ve never had to contact the manufacturer for the other NAS units I have. Disappointing.
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Disappointing. Talking very long about the procuct but still nothing about the noise of the device. If you are just saying “they are not loud” – that is not enough, I have heard the exact same comment about NAS as loud as a hairdryer.
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In your next video, can you please advise the best NVMEs to use based on the throttling of Gen 3 x 1 and how to populate the NAS for best throughput i.e. is 3 NVMEs with Raid 5 the best. Thanks.
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N5105 – Max # of PCI Express Lanes = 8 – Each NVME = Capable of 4 lanes. Whats the point of running NVME? May as well use SATA SSD’s.
Now does anyone (at home) have the capability to run 60Gb/s (12x5Gb/s) networking. Nope. But….. Thinking outside the box and allowing for smb multi channel. maybe a third edition 12 bay, a ‘proper’ processor, with 4 10Gb/s SFP+ on the back and we might have some serious sales. There are definitely people out there who have that sort of capability. (like me)
10Gb networking for home is a sensible price currently with mikrotik but 25/40/100 is still going to be real pricey until corporate entities start rolling this stuff to the pre-loved market
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Hi, you were to spend around $600 for a NAS, which would you buy?
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Look like this storage running with Android OS, because i found that the apps are using apk
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For anyone interested, I have six Crucial P3 Plus 4TB CT4000P3PSSD8 PCIe 3.0 and they work just fine in my Flashstor 12.
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I’m having trouble connecting it to SABRENT 10 bay hard drive docking
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Definitely interested but it is quite ‘plasticky’. I would have been keener to buy with a metal chasis, plastic just doesn’t say quality. I am quite keen to see what the competition produces that is similar. Kudos though for kicking off this type of NAS.
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Hmm. Need something like this but with ZFS and encryption capabilities. I guess that would need a stronger CPU. I don’t really care about the external bottleneck, even 1 Gb is more than enough for what I need. I do care about the dimensions, noise, and power consumption, which far outweigh the network limits.
Can you boot a TrueNAS on this or is the system drive vendor-locked?
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I have WD My cloud and no month fee,what are with Asustor?I hear,that for any need to pay any month fee.
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I’ve recently found your site and your reviews here. Great job!
I’d like to know if this would support having a SSD pool to have a PS 5 access it for game storage. Not sure how a PS5 would deal with NAS storage for game content.Any thoughts?
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14:04 — “a thousand megs per slot” . . . but assuming that is (or is not) with all six slot filled?
For instance, if I make a pool out of three of six slots on FS6706T, then will each slot in such a pool get double that (i.e., 2,000 megs per slot)?
With much appreciation. Great video ????
Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.
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Is there any drawback to connecting the NAS to a Mac Studio with SSD for the 10G speed and the rest of the computers on the network via ethernet? Do you get the same functionality in terms of storage and apps?
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Is not need ECC RAM for a reliable NAS?
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I saw your review of the Asustor Flashstor 12 Pro NVMe NAS and liked it, but I think there is missing information, such as:
The type of memory used, is it ECC?
Do we need to buy heat sinks for the M.2 drives?
What is the type of the PCI lane connection, is it 3.1 or higher?
Best budget that i found in Portugal was:
Nome Marca unidade Preço Totais Preço Final
ASUSTOR 12-Bay M.2 FLASHSTOR 12 PRO Asus 1 898,90 € 898,90 €
Samsung 2TB SSD 970 EVO PLUS M2 PCIe – MZ-V7S2T0BW Samsung 12 113,58 € 1 362,96 € 2 333,90 €
Samsung 2TB 980 Pro NVMe – MZ-V8P2T0BW Samsung 12 143,82 € 1 725,84 € 2 696,78 €
Memória RAM Kingston 16GB 2666MHz DDR4 Non-ECC CL19 SODIMM – KVR26S19S8/16 Kingston 2 36,02 € 72,04 €
Just for reference. Thank you for your attention. Keep up the good work.
Best regards.
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Due to the throttling of the SSD’s, what 4TB sticks would you recommend?
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Please, please stop using the astonished “Mr. Beast” look thumbnail for the upload.. It is an instant turnoff.. ????
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I really miss the youtube app in NAS (AS6704T) to watch it on my TV. Asusstore please add it app central.
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Spdif is a no for me. I am getting one of these but will be going Ethernet to my transport to the DAC. This will be replacing my DS220+. Fits and better looking ????
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Let’s all face facts – if you’re expecting to fill a 10Gbps link with traffic all the time, or want/need a 25Gbps or 40Gbps+ link, you’re not looking at Asustor. You’re looking at professional solutions. My potential use for this is in long-term NAS storage, not performant storage. Meaning, I want to have 12x4TB disks in RAID 6, and load them with Plex data, and let them sit there. For over a decade. And be reliable. Something spinners can’t really nod their head at. With RAID 6 NVME drives, I would expect easily 10+ years of use – I’d expect that the CPU or memory may suffer a defect long before the drives die. The only thing I wish the 12 bay unit had would be dual 10Gbps ports – not for throughput (and I’m sure some people would scream about that) but for redundancy, so that if I do a switch upgrade and it reloads, nothing is interrupted from a file mount perspective.
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Good NAS Good job ASUSTOR
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*Note* – Fairplay to @ASUSTORTV , after my criticism of the system not arriving with M.2 SSD Heatsinks, they have produced a test video showing compelling evidence that the PCIe Gen 3×1 slots are not able to generate enough heat on a x1 speed each. I will be conducting sustained tests later on that factor in spiked use, but I have to hand it to them, it is a great response and makes a solid case. You can find their video here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr__5B3oGtM
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Some notes about these Asustor FS 67 series NVMe NAS’s….
1. Currently the only 4TB NVMe supported is the WD RED 4TB (WDS400T1R0C-68BDK0) per the Asustor HCL .
2. The NAS will stream DSD (up to quad-DSD) to an attached USB DAC. However, none of the USB DACs listed on Asustor’s HCL support DSD.
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cand the SSD be mix and match or all the same?
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So if I understood this right, If I’m still running a 1Gbps switch/router my home network would be the bottleneck not the NAS itself right (with the 6 bay)
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The 1GBps per drive comment isn’t exactly accurate. Due to the CPU only having 8 PCIe lanes, they’re using ASMedia PCIe MUX chips to share all of the PCIe bandwidth. In a RAID6 array with all 12 bays populated with 2TB Intel 670Ps, I haven’t seen more than around 3100 MB/s reads and 840 MB/s writes.
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Wait… Let’s nip this in the bud, shall we. Making no apology, this is a ha’p’orth o’ tar situation, though in NAS terms we are talking more leaky coracle than creaky man-o’-war. More than that, here is an offstage exercise in elephant wallpapering. Having said that, I do agree pretty much with mostly all you’ve said in your pros and cons presentation, and with ASUSTOR TV clarifications and rejoinders – but!
It’s one thing to announce that the Flashstor is populated exclusively with NVMe cards, whilst waving the like to your ear. I can’t fault your delivery. It’s priceless. NVMe cards are silent as a dead parrot, of course. But the so called bad boy Flashstor NAS – with a manufacturer stated Operation Noise Level of 18.7 dB due to the built-in active cooling fan – is, well, audible. Not just audible, but with a strangely metallic, nay, ironic quality to the noise it produces.
Very quiet, and barely noticeable, are relative euphemisms, like almost silent, not useful in translation. Every ear hears what it will. An acceptable level of noise depends subjectively on individual use case scenarios. I suspect the majority of any gathered assembly will be quite comfortable agreeing to differ on the intrusiveness, or otherwise, of a quiet device.
Should you buy it? On a promise it never makes and doesn’t need to keep? See below. Even if you convince yourself to overlook the inclusion of a fan in the specification you won’t be spared the morning after. Remove the fan, or if it stops working of its own accord, and there is a series of loud beeps to alert all those within earshot. No secret. It insists functionally on being present and correct, and, as I may have indicated, it is noisy. It oughtn’t be, but it is. Thanks to two significant factors: a) aerodynamics, that is diameter/rotational speed/blade design, and in particular b) dual ball bearings.
I suggest a line be drawn at the apparently casual use of the word silent since it means something entirely different, by varying degree indicative of subjective experience of noise level, to the word quiet. (Aside – You might want to call the latter virtual silence. Mmmm, a bit 70’s. How about artificial silence. Ah, yes, now that’s modern. Of course, it still means categorically not silent in any way whatsoever, rather of questionable value, a compensatory poor substitute for the real thing. Who cares.)
If you require silence, as in Solid State Drive, and wish to eliminate noise, as in Hard Disk Drive, then buying this machine is a straight forward mistake. Silent running is statedly not a design goal of Asustor for the Flashstor. That being the case, what exactly is the unique selling point of it? The case is sturdy, but looks ridiculous and those are fake exhausts on the front, whatever Robbie told you. If the proprietor also spreads the idea that its firmware potentially is written to deny service to those seeking to install other operating systems or scupper rival investment group’s memory modules then at best it is an impressive marketing exercise. Impressive as in pressurised sales loosening your grip on reality and in turn making a big dent in your paltry bitcoin collection. So keep your eye on the pea. Let’s go.
Highly desirable, a silent domestic NAS device is a simple and clear objective concept. A design goal. Not a missed target. Not an Asustor. Not even a Flashstor. Not yet, anyway. To this day, the only silent NAS is a NONAS.
“We really wanted to make this quiet. Otherwise it defeats one of the purposes of an SSD NAS.” ASUSTOR TV on Flashstor thermal design.
There it is again. That word. Quiet. Which means a degree of noisy as opposed to silent, which still means no noise.
My DS415+, admittedly with Noctua fans, is quiet. The reason for upgrading the fans is to eliminate the metallic grinding sound of ball bearings, to make the fans mostly tolerable. But it isn’t silent with four WD Red 3TB HDD. The escaping chronic fixed level mechanical grinding sound, more than the lively seek chatter, is a depressive ergonomic that is unnatural to the ear and a factor in long term hearing loss. That’s why most sysops tend to not live in the server room, or for that matter the plant room, or indeed the belfry. What? Away then, with those naughty hard disks and their moving parts.
“We really wanted to make this quiet.” Really. If by quiet you mean to some extent noisy, you succeeded. You didn’t. You did otherwise. Strange, but true. In doing so, as vouchsafed, you defeated one of the purposes of an SSD NAS. The distinguishing purpose presumably being to follow through silent (not quiet) solid state disks with a silent (not quiet) solid state chassis. You know. Silent storage. Instead of quiet (to some extent noisy) storage.
By design. Quiet and not silent. Why is that? It needn’t be that way. Why stop at swapping out the last of those noisy spinning hard disks to do only half a job by leaving in a noisy spinning fan?
With respect to the Flashstor, use of the word silent is merely adjectival funny business, or perhaps fanny business. What I mean is this. A useful practical description of an object ought to align itself with the uniformly objective convergence of common experience and yield to independent measurement and verification. Thus, silent is probably a non-starter as there is a ball bearing attached. Unless that fan is off, that is, or running on mag-lev oil bearings below the bar of a gentle draught, which it isn’t in this case.
Thursday there were two Flashstor 6 in stock on Amazon UK – then there was one. Closer inspection of the design would suggest that Asustor decided wilfully not to render the wannabe silent NAS in fact, silent. The thick plottens. The design includes certain case screw heads, including the fan screws, buried under pressed and recessed hard plastic caps that defy attempts to disassemble. The dimensions of the custom fan itself are suboptimal to sourcing better performing parts. Fan replacement is therefore a factory repair. Good luck with that. One is physically hampered even from modding the Flashstor for peace and quiet. One may be seen but not heard, but one’s NAS – not so much.
When the Flashtor NAS is up and running, it’s tiddly built-in fan is up and running. The ball bearing noise can be heard distinctly and penetratingly across the room. This is not to mention the rushing sound of air. Asustor has almost succeeded with that, although the fan is rather small. In fact the airflow can only be heard if one waves the entire NAS to one’s ear or, equally, places one’s ear really quite close to it.
That is not the major problem. The fan shifts enough air at idle to keep the inner workings from overheating and the airflow often is inaudible depending on the ambient sound of working conditions. Only in the dead of night, when you should be asleep anyway, or if you are fortunate enough to work in library conditions, can this humble rush of air be heard. The poor wee fan has to work the surrounding air a little too vigorously to waft the necessary draught. The sound level is very much like a DS423+ on SSDs, sporting replacement Noctua fans fitted with series resistors. Don’t ask me how I know. Don’t get me started on those cheap rattly Synology fans in a flimsy case. Why do you think I took in the Flashtor? Desperation. It certainly wasn’t for looks.
I want to live with my NAS, not to have to listen to it when I require to hear a pin drop. A little more commitment to acoustic performance could easily have resulted in a silent Flashstor. Misanthropic marketing motivated by the boundless wonder of public imagination supposes why produce something good and well-engineered straight off the bat when you can sell it again, and again, and again. To the tune of a waltz.
The problem is this. And this is the whole point. Asustor have used, not the cheapest fan design it demonstrates reasonably good aerodynamics and manufacturing but cheap enough to suffer from noisy ball bearings. I say suffer, because the sound is remarkably similar to the grinding sound of a spinning hard disk.
So here’s a paradox for you. The elephant in the room is the Flashtor itself. As a design and marketing concept it is admirable: bold, striking and courageous. However, you could say that its greatest asset is at the same time its inevitable downfall. It is a victim of its own success. It contains the seeds of its own destruction. In other words, it has balls. And it’s a little fanny.
There is only one thing more disheartening than suffering from noisy ball syndrome, and that is foisting your head splitting ailment on sensitive, imaginative types who are trying to manifest (let’s be generous) original thinking. That, and the blinding irony of an SSD NAS sounding for all the world like a wheezy old dog of an HDD chassis. Oooh, the bells! The decibels!
12th Gen Intel NUC with a Core i5-1240P 35W TPD in the Akasa Turing passive case with a 2.5″ SSD, mSata and NVMe is for real. Silent. Oh, the sheer relief. Obviously, that represents overkill for power in a domestic NAS. Count them. How many cores? But proof of concept beyond doubt by an order of magnitude. The removal of barriers to achieving a silent NAS. How are you going to test the market for silent NAS if you don’t release one? I see, you are testing the market for the acceptance of a decoy. As long as that’s understood. You can be the best at taking the pea.
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The asking prices though, holy F. These name brand NAS companies trying to do Apple pricing based on aesthetics. SMH…
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can you run Truenas on these instead of the Asustor os?
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Honestly I would not trust asus drivers.they dont qc firmware updates
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I don’t trust the chinese Asus one single bit. Their customer service is pure crap. Here’s their latest “screw the customer” fiasco. https://youtu.be/cbGfc-JBxlY
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Just please someone to tell the manufacturers, to put full size pci slot (or mobile 3070 soldered to the mb) and space for gpu and here you go, the perfect plex server ????????????
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I bought one of these and decided to go for the Flashstor 6 version.
I simply couldn’t justify the jump in price between the FS6 to FS12 for an extra 6 drive slots and the 10Gb LAN.
For me tge FS6 is plenty fast enough.
The reason I devided on one of these is they are almost silent and use barely any power. In sleep mode they make no noise at all and use literally nothing (less than 1 watt). But the main reason is they wake up from sleep in less than 2 seconds vs my Synology NAS which takes sone 40+ seconds to wake all the drives up and come to life.
Mine is not accessible online and i only access it via VPN so my data remains safe and its plenty fast enough for moving files around my network vs my Synology with its limited 1Gb LAN ports (why Synology).
The only slight issue i have is with regards to the NVMe drives. Because there is limited compatibility listed on the Asustor site for these i thought I’d try just a couple of Samsung Evo 970 Plus 2TB drives to start with and if tgey worked ok I’d add more.
I bought two and set them up as RAID 1 and everything worked fine.
I then thought id add another and change to RAID 5, so i got another 2TB exact same drive bought only 2 days later (all bought from Amazon). It set up as RAID 5 fine and seemed all ok but the 3rd drive seemed to be considerably hotter than the previous two.
Also i noticed the 3rd drive was showing as having “ERROR INFORMATION LOG ENTRIES” when i checked that drive in the NVMe SSD status log.
I assumed that drive might be faulty so RMA’d it. But the replacement was exactly the same. So i completely deleted the volume and set all 3 drives up a fresh as RAID 5. But that 3rd drive is still getting the ERROR INFORMATION LOG ENTRIES which is odd. The initial two drives don’t have them and they are exactly the same drives.
Ive tried swapping drive slots etc but that 3rd drive just seems different. The only physical difference is the first two drives were manufactured date of 2022 but the 3rd (and replacement 4th drive) are manufactured dated 2023 so presumably newer firmware.
Any ideas what these ERROR INFORMATION LOG ENTRIES are and are they a reason for concern? Why does this 2023 drive have them but not the 1st two drives?
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Apart from that issue im loving the system and its a great price too for such a silent, low powered (energy wise) and rapid system)
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You should put the video title “You Should Buy”????????
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What would it take to get the Synology OS Software installed onto 1 of these?
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What use cases are these useful for? Seems overkill for home use, seeing as you need a network setup beyond most home networks, and is this sort of performance really needed for Plex? If you’re doing home video editing why not store the videos while editing locally and then backup to NAS. Just curious.
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Are there any other brands beside ASUSTOR that offer NVME NAS storage?
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Are there any other brands beside ASUSTOR that offer NVME NAS storage?
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I hope you do a followup on this device with a recomended ssd choice and tests. The hdmi output is also interesting. How well would that work vs. Accessing media on the network.
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I hope you do a followup on this device with a recomended ssd choice and tests. The hdmi output is also interesting. How well would that work vs. Accessing media on the network.
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A better CPU could have gotten Gen4 NVMe speeds, but then it would have doubled the cost and would be marketed towards content creators photo/video editing. With the N5105 and those ports it seems like it’s going to be marketed towards Plex media users.????
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A better CPU could have gotten Gen4 NVMe speeds, but then it would have doubled the cost and would be marketed towards content creators photo/video editing. With the N5105 and those ports it seems like it’s going to be marketed towards Plex media users.????
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A better CPU could have gotten Gen4 NVMe speeds, but then it would have doubled the cost and would be marketed towards content creators photo/video editing. With the N5105 and those ports it seems like it’s going to be marketed towards Plex media users.????
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NVME’s don’t get that hot. This is only needed if you are actually pushing them but 90% of the gen3 x4 NVME’s even when using them in high end computing don’t need heatsink. A NAS unless the user is pushing it with multiple users in an x4 configuration don’t need heatsinks. If they are limited by x1 i don’t see them even remotely coming close to needing a heatsink. This is another one of those geek things that the higher end users say you need but don’t realize that 99% of the people watching their content don’t. There are also some studies out there that show they work better when they are warmed up. This is definitely seen when talking immersion cooling.
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Thanks.. Great review!
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looks a lot like the ps4 pro, hopefully does not sound like one jet engine one
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Robbie, you’re famous (or infamous) they’re watching you! hahahahaha
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17:07 The heatsinks for the SoC are under the motherboard. Heatsinks for the SSDs if preferred, are sold separately. They’re the same heatsinks as the AS-T10G3. During testing, we could not cause SSDs to overheat in our NAS. This isn’t to say that some SSDs in the future might need heatsinks due to their design, we wanted to keep the NAS flexible to take almost any SSD while giving people the option to add SSDs later on and not pass those costs onto people who might not need them. Remember, the PCIe lanes are limited to x1 to match with the 10GbE and provide a higher quantity without much sacrifice in real world performance. Since they’re x1, they’re not being fully throttled sequentially and thus, run cooler.
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15:41 The problem with the claim that the SSDs aren’t able to stretch their legs is that, practically, no copper-based network solution is going to allow 40 Gbps on PCIe 3.0 x4. We’d have to buy a 40GbE controller, add heatsinks for the cooling, tell everyone to upgrade their PCs with QSFP+ 40GbE cards, tell everyone to buy expensive 40GbE switches for their network etc… PCIe 3.0 x1 perfectly matches with a 10GbE port, and to be honest, as a NAS user myself, very few actually do much internal transferring to make x4 sockets worthwhile. 99/100 interactions are through the NIC, the main entry point, and SSDs provide unbelievably superior random I/O performance, which helps with, actions that require HUGE amounts of small files, like video editing, audio editing, photo transfers and more. Such actions will not even saturate Gigabit, but will be substantially faster, orders of magnitude faster than regular hard drives. 10GbE helps balance it out.
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12:13 ECC does not protect against bit rot. You need to power on the SSD every so often to protect against bit rot.
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11:11 If we shoved an i3 in there, it’d cook itself. We want our customers to have their cake and eat it too. An i3 would still not support ECC either. The profile just won’t physically support a Xeon.
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2GbE card on a 6GB/s nas…wtf?
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typo when you talked about the CPU choice: “it’s” instead on “its” on the chapter on screen title ????
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Robbie please don’t call them F-L-A-C files for flac sake ????
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These idiots producing NAS keep forgetting NAS priority is data reliability: where is the ECC RAM?!
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