Terramaster T9-500 PRO Max NAS - Should You Buy (Review)

[@ram64man]

given the cpu failure rate of the 13 and 14th gen i am not surprised they picked a 12th gen honestly its not a problem

[@MyersJ2Original]

and it should be cheaper too as its older.

[@bluesquadron593]

The over 2000 GBP price tag made me cry a little bit.

[@LaurentCourtin]

Yep. At that price, unless you really need something that's on 24/7 (not my case, I'm more on the market for cold storage right now), might simply be better to just buy some components and build your own computer/NAS.

[@recycledsoldier]

I have the 6 bay external drive usb cage and love it. So far, it's been an absolute rock.

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

Since I'm partial to smaller boxes, I'd like to have a T6-423 equivalent with a CPU that doesn't suck.

[@jodajackson4489]

TOS 6 is almost certainly more feature rich and has more polish then UGreen UGOS Pro. So perhaps not great but better than some other options out there.

[@scorned230]

I have the t12-500 Pro. Very impressed and great at Plex.

[@Josh-b3c]

Me too

[@reinekewf7987]

i mean yeah as a turnkey solution, i agree with hat. But if you're planing to change the OS and running something different more potent on this system. You may consider buying a used 7 to 12-year-old workstation or 2 to 3 u rack server. Like the DELL PowerEdge servers. i know those are powerful scalable servers with plenty of power. i have a r630 with two 12 drive PowerVaults and this thing is a beast. in my case, i needed that power. I do analytic and statistic stuff. Some folks would today say, i do AI things but yeah you can call it that way if you happy with. but i rather prefer to call it analytics and statistics also do this for 8 years now and back then ai wasn't that useless and meaningless word like it is today. i got mine for about 600€ including both PowerVaults, i spend another 600€ to upgrade the cpu and RAM from a single e5 2603v3 with 112gb to a dual e5 2683v4 and 512gb ram and bought 8 sata SSDs for raid 10 and 1tb storage in total. Everything else lives in the PowerVaults in a raid 6 configuration and both PowerVaults are mirrored to each other, basically this is a raid 60. Eacch PowerVault has about 38TB usable. So 1TB is fast working storage and 38TB is long therm storage. i know raid is no backup, but what the fuck needs to be happened to lose all my data. Everything is redundant in my system.

[@MultiRanman]

No PCIe slots is kind of a non-starter for this price point. Seems to be a significant oversight.

[@werecow68]

I'm ok with them avoiding the 13th/14th gen Intel CPUs given their failure rate. The price isn't terrible given all that you're getting, but is more than what I'm willing to pay. The 424 max is likely my next NAS as my Synology boxes are getting long in the tooth and their software is getting worse each update. Now do I have to fly over to the UK and take you and Eddie to lunch to get one of those teal sweatshirts in the shop? :)

[@ThorstenDrews]

I'd like to very much disagree about the copper ports. I'm on the SFP or nothing fraction. Every 10G component in my homelab is connected by DACs except for my Mac that only has the cheap TB4 10GB Adapter that has a copper port. And that's getting terribly hot because of the copper port.

[@jeremyfmoses]

QNAP and Sonnet both sell Thunderbolt to SFP+ adapters, which as far as I know don't run hot (so long as you're using fibre, maybe DAC too?), but that would be an additional expense when you've already got things running. Also, this is based on memory, so check reviews yourself before considering purchase.

[@ThorstenDrews]

@@jeremyfmoses I can live with 10G copper on client side, but my main installation, attached to my Microtik switch should stay SFP. And a NAS is not a client. That's my main argument. Since my 10G switch ports are all SFP based I would love as less media conversion as possible. And for shot ranges under 2m distance from my rack DACs are the tool of choice.

[@Hansen999]

100% agree. Would take SFP+ any day over RJ45

[@frankwong9486]

Using their 6 bay 5095 with unraid and a 6bay DAS with another minipc running unraid, and hope they made n100/n305 version of 6bay in future For this bigger 9bay vesrion it will better if they give one pcie slot for upgrade ? Been using 2p+8e as work laptop everyday and honestly it doesn't that quick compare to a pure 8 ecore n305 😅

[@scytob]

Fun video,, liked it.

[@uwhat1]

No Usb 4.0 or Thunderbolt for that price no thanks