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SOFTWARE - 9/10
HARDWARE - 7/10
PERFORMANCE - 7/10
PRICE - 7/10
VALUE - 8/10

7.6

PROS

👍🏻Affordable 6-Bay Solution
👍🏻Incredible low footprint in your environment
👍🏻Supports Plex Media Server
👍🏻4K Media Playback and Transcoding
👍🏻LAG/Trunking Support
👍🏻Supports 15mm Drives
👍🏻VERY quiet
👍🏻Supports DSM 6.2.2 Very Well
👍🏻2.5″ Focused, but very capable

CONS

👎🏻Shame it’s not the 4-Core J3455
👎🏻Only 2x RJ45, Bottleneck for Faster Media
👎🏻10Gbe would have made this INCREDIBLE

SOFTWARE - 10/10
HARDWARE - 8/10
PERFORMANCE - 9/10
PRICE - 5/10
VALUE - 7/10

7.8

PROS

👍🏻High Virtualisation
👍🏻SSD Optimized like never before
👍🏻Fantastically Powerful 2x Intel Silver CPU
👍🏻F1 and F2 RAID Support
👍🏻SAS and SATA support
👍🏻2x 10Gbe Ports Included
👍🏻PCIe Slot for more ports, 10Gbe and SSD Caching
👍🏻5 Year Warranty
👍🏻Numerous business apps included
👍🏻Surveillance including multiple camera licences
👍🏻iTunes Server
👍🏻email server
👍🏻Download server (FTP, HTTP, BT,NZB)
👍🏻CMS and CRM systems
👍🏻Office applications
👍🏻Media Center support

CONS

👎🏻No NVMe/U.2 Support
👎🏻No USB 3.1 Gen 2 backup Port
👎🏻This hardware opens the door to 20/25Gbe NICs options from the start
👎🏻VERY expensive