ASUSTOR LockerStor2 Gen2 AS6702T 2+4 Bay Power House NAS

[@LeeMaiden]

This one, AS6702T is coming to me today 9-2-2023, I'm upgrading from an AS1102T, which has been okay, but it's too weak for my needs. Thank you for the videos, I always enjoy them.

[@mikesunboxing]

Good choice! should be a very noticeable upgrade, hope you enjoy using it, and thanks for watching our videos. make sure to say hi in the comments

[@PaulBakewell]

If I needed a NAS I would buy one of these. Great video thanks Mike.

[@michaelthompson9798]

It’s great to see advancements in the NAS market with improved LAN speeds, fast cpu, NVME storage options etc making these useful for home servers or media server eg. Plex.

[@mikesunboxing]

yes this is now really more powerful than a lot of pc's i have owned over the years, and still beats modern mini pc's like the beelink etc

[@WilliamAPBodie]

Mike's Review is Worthy of a Support comment. Like & a share 🙂

[@PapaMav]

The worthiness of the Support comment, Like & share are fully supported !

[@uglybob7505]

You know me, I loves me NAS devices. I have an Asustor one already for me work stuff and I honestly cannot fault it, its that sweet spot between price and performance and the Asustor ones hit that spot nicely. Stick a few ironwolf drives in this bad boy and you're laughing :-)

[@mikesunboxing]

yeah top specs at mid range prices, and a decent warranty, lots to like here

[@DJCrazyJimmy]

I put this on my to buy list for expanding my network capabilities for youtube and storage. I love that there are so many options available to eun so many different apps and software on this thing. Thank you for the review helped alot.

[@mikesunboxing]

Good choice!

[@CaptainKA320]

Thanks for the review, to the point and not too long. Definitely do the how-to setup video, as I think I have decided to go for this NAS after months of looking at reviews.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it was helpful! will try and get the setup video done soon for you

[@mickywoods]

Looks like a great piece of hardware to have - a bit expensive though for me - thanks again for a really good in depth review.

[@mikesunboxing]

yes it is quite an investment

[@mdd1963]

Impressive little NAS!!! (I have an N5105 in my Win11 miniPC for couch surfing/movie watching, and it does quite well!)

[@mikesunboxing]

Very nice!

[@OlettaLiano]

Hi, Mike. Another fine video, as always. Looks like a good product too. But I have no idea what I'd ever do with it.

[@mikesunboxing]

my main two things are backups of all the PCs in the house, and a backup of all the videos and footage we create, in case we ever need to edit or reupload a video

[@OlettaLiano]

@@mikesunboxing That's understandable. I'm sure you need a ton of video storage and such. I have no such needs. Everything on my PC totals up to less than 1/3 of a 1TB M.2 drive. The only thing I need to backup is my writing and Word Docs don't require much space.

[@elysiumcore]

I have the 4 bay version of this ...loaded with 2x 16 TB + 2 ssd 1 TB as cache...I also added 16 gig Ddr4. This Nas rocks - I tested the dual 2.5bge but can only max out 300 mbs ⚡ using asustor 2.5gb switch

[@mikesunboxing]

there should be an option for enabling multi channel SMB in there to get a bit more out of it

[@elysiumcore]

@@mikesunboxing I did I was able to max out the dual smb options..

[@luckyman1324]

improved LAN speeds may be time to invest

[@tonycinquieme-dimension7911]

I have 3 x 4TB M.2 storage in RAID5 and wants to use another one for caching but I just can't. The option is grayed. Any tip ?

[@mikesunboxing]

not sure sorry, but i will try and find out

[@matthewday7565]

Does the front transfer create a folder per transfer, otherwise how would it handle duplicate filenames

[@mikesunboxing]

it can be configured in various ways, but yes the data is usually date stamped or in a folder with a date stamp

[@RedMarsupial]

Have they implemented a virtual ADM yet? Similar to synology's virtual DSM

[@mikesunboxing]

yes here www.asustor.com/live_demo

[@REALLYRANDOMREVIEW5]

i know nothing about these but maybe i should, do they help secure the network from external threats too or just for servers and storage ?

[@mikesunboxing]

to some extent they can, you can remove external access and they also take data snapshots so if a system gets hacked you can easily restore it from a backup version

[@REALLYRANDOMREVIEW5]

@@mikesunboxing Thanks Mike

[@Senrab46]

Apologies b4hand but i am confused! Not hard lol Nvme gen 3 trf speeds go up to say 3000mbs so why use if unit only reaches 500mbs? Plus 2.5g lan lines! Lastly how wid u use this as a media pc, wud u need lan cable connection? Again apologies brain tired and looking forward to watching part 2/3 videos. Thanks Mike and Kath👍

[@mikesunboxing]

the internal data rate isn't really as important as the speed of accessing the data, NVME drives access data quicker and makes the whole system more responsive, so when you access from a PC you don't have the wait time for the old spinning disks to spin up and find the data. If using as a media PC a wired connection would be better but there are ways to add wifi, but really LAN is the way to go for high bitrate files unless you have really decent fast wifi

[@davidwarner970]

Awesome review and impressed with this NAS and the Specs. I am running pFsense with VPN / Certs for connectivity into my network and utilizing HTTPS. Of course, when I purchase this NAS, I will be turned all external access off, any ssh,sftp disabled. Will also have offsite backups and cloud in case of any deadbolt virus. What ever suggestions do you have for security?

[@mikesunboxing]

for security i just do the most amount of physical backups i can and also some online ones also, it is all about maximising the locations

[@AranyaSen]

Thanks for the video! It was very helpful! How is your experience with AiFoto3+FotoAlbum? I'm planning to get it mostly for my photos, so having a good Google Photos replacement will be a great +

[@mikesunboxing]

It's good and for the costs of these units and the power they have against synology is great

[@cblte]

Hello. Is there a way to find out, how much SSD caching space I should buy to cover 4 TB disks? I was not able to find a table for that. All I found was the table for memory usage. Thanks. Whats is the minimum ssd cache I should buy for 3, 4, or 8 TB stoargen.

[@mikesunboxing]

i would try a 240GB drive to start with, they are very cheap and unless you have some really heavy file transfers the cache won't fill up a great deal

[@cblte]

@@mikesunboxing Thank you. I was thinking about 16 GB RAM, 4 TB HDD WD Red Plus, 2x 500 GB SSD Cache for Read Write capability and 2x 1 TB SSD as User's Home drive and storage for some docker containers, all backed up to HDD and off-site. Where of the rest of the HDD (3 TB) will be used for long-term data storage and photos and movies etc.

[@hapzfl]

I currently run an older Synology NAS with a website. Unfortunately it is somewhat slow and I want to speed things up. Would that NAS be a reasonably good choice to install WordPress and transfer my site to it? Possibly running on the SSDs?

[@mikesunboxing]

this is probably one of the best value / performance nas there is on the market. maybe even the older version. you can go on to the ASUSTOR site and run a virtual NAS and see the apps and interface and see if you like the look and feel

[@alex-zh5yv]

Do you need a specific type of switch for the link aggregation to work or is it handled on the NAS?

[@mikesunboxing]

handled in the NAS

[@lowesmed5681]

My 2bay Asustor got the Deadbolt ransomeware and now I’m looking to buy a 4 or 6bay NAS and I thought I would never use Asustor again and started looking at the Synology DS1621+ . But the Lockerstore gen 2 seems so awesome. What do you think about the two brands when it come so security? Just realized it got nothing to do about the video of this haha but please share inputs if u have any. Thanks for the video!

[@mikesunboxing]

My personal thoughts are to not use any nas with public open ports if possible that is the biggest problem. Turn off any external access. It is nice to have these features but they are all inherently insecure

[@spx2338]

Can you use only the NVME drives for storage and not use the 3.5 drives?

[@mikesunboxing]

yes you can

[@anandmohan8456]

😂 Thank you

[@petecoventry6858]

Sounds like a fellow Bristolian or close ;)

[@mikesunboxing]

yeah bristol through and through

[@PapaMav]

No interest but still gave a LIKE and, it is Crap Joke Friday: What do you call a beehive without an exit? Unbelievable.

[@mikesunboxing]

Haha

[@aqmohra4]

I can't afford any of those nas devices so I use a raspberry pi 3b as a nas instead

[@mikesunboxing]

i always considered that option myself

[@anordinarynerd4654]

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