Asustor FS6712X Flashstor 12 Pro - All SSD NAS Unit

[@JasonsLabVideos]

I've been eyeing up one of these too !!

[@MikeFaucher]

Really nice for the price. Thanks for the feedback.

[@kevinhughes9801]

Great review look like decent units thanks

[@MikeFaucher]

So far so good. Thanks for the feedback.

[@mj1s735]

Great review, these all SSD NAS are very tempting to buy. My only reason for sticking with HDD NAS is I need plenty of storage space. If you had to choose between this NAS and the QNAP TBS h574tx which one would you choose?

[@MikeFaucher]

Thank you for the feedback. I have reviewed both on my channel and currently using both daily. I like them both for different reasons. Pure speed has to go to the QNAP, however, it is very expensive, a bit louder, and limited to 5 drives making it great for video or photo-centric users. The Asustor is slightly slower but $400 less and has 12 drives, They are for different users so hard to say. without knowing your use case, Hope that helps.

[@mj1s735]

@@MikeFaucher I mainly use my QNAP NAS for storage. I have a large movie and music collection. I don't think I would ever use a NAS for direct editing. If I had to choose one I would have to go with the Asustor. Mainly because of the price and the fact that it as 12 bays. But sadly a 4TB NMVe costs as much as a 16TB HDD or larger if I catch the right sale.

[@MikeFaucher]

@@mj1s735 I would agree 100% with your use case. For years, what has worked for me is a multi-NAS solution. SSD storage for working projects where speed is essential, a traditional NAS (I have 3 QNAP HDD units) for all hot data and redundancy, and UNRAID for backup and media.

[@stephenkbolton]

I wish there was something between this and the new qnap thunderbolt nasbook. Basically this with a slightly more powerful cpu. Maybe thunderbolt but not absolutely necessary

[@MikeFaucher]

We can only hope.

[@TimHunold]

Agreed, n305 or similar. N100 is a little underpowered. Green is launching some serious cous on upper tier ssd nas

[@michaelfrancis3558]

This is a great concept and all, these are currently $1019 on Amazon in Canada. It's doesn't include any drives, maxes out at 16GB of RAM and has a N5105. Hardly worth the price just because it holds 12 M.2 drives considering the cost per TB when it comes to M.2 storage options. You could easily build a NAS out of previous gen tech and have a much better solution. The only perks of this device is space saving.

[@MikeFaucher]

Thanks for the feedback. There is one other perk and that is speed if you are currently running a 10G network, otherwise you are absolutely right.

[@HwSystems]

Would be nice to see iSCSI Target

[@MikeFaucher]

Will add it to my list. Thanks.

[@billstenos1043]

make sure you disable the firewall first

[@MikeFaucher]

Thanks for the feedback.

[@pbrigham]

Hi Mike, thanks for sharing, if you can please test the rebuilding time of the array if one disk fails, this is for me the most important aspects as in HHDs can take days and in Flash should be minutes, especially in nvme.I only tested with SATA SSD and i'm curious to know the times with nvme.

[@MikeFaucher]

Great question. I will do that and post the results. It will be fast than minutes but it will be more than minutes and vary significanly on the size and the number of drives in your array. I can test my config and let you know. Thanks.

[@kilbeam99]

Thanks for the video! Would this be a good plex machine/media server?

[@MikeFaucher]

It would but storing media on SSD's would get expensive. If you plan on doing this attach some storage to the USB and run Plex on this device. I plan on testing plex on this in the near future.