6x M.2 NVMe SSD NAS! The Asustor Flashstor 6 (FS6706T)

This is the Asustor FS6707T 6x M.2 NVMe SSD NAS! The dual 2.5GbE ports can get over 500MB/s to one PC by selecting a single checkbox. As SSD prices drop, this might be one to look at for the #homelab
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[@ericneo2]

"6x M.2 & 2x2.5GB LAN" - Dead on Arrival. Let's hope next time they get it right with 2x10GBe.

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

We also have the 12x M.2 and 1x 10GbE coming tomorrow.

[@ericneo2]

@@ServeTheHomeVideo That would be nice to see. You must see a lot of poorly thought out products that never make it into videos.

[@PatrickKennedy2]

@@ericneo2 So many. Most end up just on the main site

[@benargee]

I suppose. I was going to say for the right price it's not bad, but 2.5gb could be a bottleneck for fast nvme. I suppose if you go with lower end slow nvme this could be an overall value package. Like building any system, it needs to be balanced for the application. Possibly certain storage redundancy configurations could see that the interface speed is not the bottleneck.

[@thebigbosshelp]

@@ServeTheHomeVideo 1x 10Gb interface for 12 NVME drives... this is a joke right?

[@jamesjamey8596]

Neat idea! Black magic has something similar. These things really need 10gb+ or a usb4 port

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

The 12-bay is the 10G version. That does not arrive until tomorrow though :-(

[@TwstedTV]

@@ServeTheHomeVideo But it only has (1) 10G port. not 2. So they took 1 port away and shot themselves in the foot. yet again. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♂️

[@ClemFi]

THIS is useless. One m2 ssd alone is capable of 2000MBps, so unless they strap a dual 10gb ethernet on there, this is quite pointless

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

The 10Gbase-T one is set to arrive in a few hours with 12x M.2 SSDs

[@Airbag888]

How can you get so close and still miss the train... 2023 they should have at least a dual port (sfp+ or eth 10Gbe) Givem the slump in ssd prices recently that would've been amazing

[@TheChadXperience909]

Why in the world would you hamper a device with six NVMe drives with a measily 2.5 gbps interface for? You're getting no more performance than you would out of a single 5400 rpm HDD! HEY INDUSTRY!!! GIVE US FASTER NETWORK INTERFACES ALREADY!!!!

[@Damicske]

You want 400Gbps? Get some cards where you can plug does "SFP"-modules in and you're golden :D But in this case dual 2.5Gbps is slow. Put dual 10G on it then at least

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

This also uses less power than a 400Gbps port (more on that this week on STH)

[@Jeromeeb]

They atleast did 10g on the 12x version

[@TheChadXperience909]

@@ServeTheHomeVideo The power savings seem a little pointless after you've already spent the money on that many NVMe drives. This device isn't designed to save anybody any money.

[@smudgeous4068]

​@@TheChadXperience909To be fair though, I haven't seen anything else in the market that allows an all-flash NAS option in anywhere NEAR the footprint. I recently built an all flash NAS in a Silverstone CS280 but even after converting the PCIe bays to extra hot swap bays, it wound up costing about as much for the case+mobo+ram+os storage+cables/cards/adapters as the 12-bay version of this unit for 2 fewer drives. It's also an inch wider and more than 3 times taller. Despite being limited to a single PCIe lane, each drive also still outperforms the SATA drives too

[@smudgeous4068]

Patrick, are you guys planning on digging into various RAM configurations as part of the more in-depth testing? I'd like to maximize what this thing's capable of but your initial unsuccessful attempt at bumping it way up has me a bit gun shy

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

Yes. Just a bit low on smaller modules. 16GB should be fine, the big question is 2x 16GB

[@42medwards]

@@ServeTheHomeVideo Thank you. I will be waiting to see this and the bigger brother FS6712x being tested.

[@DrRussell]

Love your vibe

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

Thank you!

[@All3me1]

What is its power usage?

[@ABUNDANCEandBEYONDATHLETE]

Wait you said 6 nvme? Why only 550MB/s and not 30GB like my 4x nvme pcie gigabyte aorus master x570 came with. Thanks!

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

Over 2x 2.5GbE links, not local performance

[@jfetgek]

Why limit yourself to just two 2.5GB ports even in thi specific version of 6 port? do you have the possibility to have a very high bandwidth with nvme ssds and then put only two ports at 2.5gb? Why ? as other users above said already, for me it is dead on arrival

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

What if you only have a small number of 1GbE/ WiFi/ 2.5GbE clients?

[@jfetgek]

@@ServeTheHomeVideo if you have the workload you mention it makes no sense to get an apparatus that has 6 nvme ssd slots. it is logical to think so because a nvme pcie3 ssd for example has an average bandwidth of 2/3gbps (both in read and in write). that said, why have nvme ssds that potentially go 2/3gbps and only two ports with a maximum total bandwidth of 500mbps ? it is clearly a bottleneck. it didn't take much to make the device future-proof, i.e. add an sfp+ port or a 10gb eth port. Why be forced to get the 12 slot version? the 6-port version may well have one or two 10gbe ports. no sense in my opinion.

[@jahon2013]

Cool NAS

[@danagoyette7932]

No ECC memory? If thafs rhe case, boo.

[@johnknightiii1351]

The name doesn't really roll off the tongue. They need to send that back to marketing

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

The FS6712X version just arrived so it will be more confusing

[@geometrikselfelsefesi]

Crysis is looking hot today

[@kidsythe]

I mean, is the CPU fast enough for 6 m.2 drives. is CPU bottleneck still around?

[@shadowarez1337]

If only theyd had a 10GB version woulda been perfect.

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

The 10Gbase-T 12x M.2 version will arrive here later today

[@shadowarez1337]

@@ServeTheHomeVideo ooooo it's starting to finally feel like we shedding the 1GB era man I feel old this must be how it was when Ethernet first broke the 10-100-1000 barriers. Except now we in a realm of really insane speeds.

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

We are going to have a lot of 400G gear on the STH main site this week and maybe next week

[@ditallow1618]

Needs 10Gbe or 25Gbe

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

We are finishing the B-Roll of the 10GbE one right now in the studio.

[@ditallow1618]

@@ServeTheHomeVideo cool. 👍

[@l00tur]

Daaaaaaaang

[@BioToxin]

isn't there a 12 drive option?

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

There is. Ours arrives tomorrow but we have been testing this one in the meantime

[@sayanchx]

My diy nas (old ryzen cpu+ecc ram) with cheap mellanox 40gbe ethernet card easily hits over 1gbps read / write

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

Very cool. This is a bit of a different segment. The NAS (without drives) uses less power can a CX-3 Pro dual port card alone.

[@kwinzman]

NAS, no ECC memory. No.

[@TwstedTV]

If they slapped on (2) 10-Gbps Ethernet ports and 3 HDMI ports and outfitted all the USB's to 3.2 and (4) USB-C 40's, then maybe this would be worth it.

[@smudgeous4068]

The CPU in these units only has 8 PCIe lanes to begin with. Adding what you asked would degrade disk performance or require a more robust chip with more lanes, requiring more than the existing passive heatsink to cool it, so size/cost/system noise would all go up. This thing fills an odd niche, but does so quite well so far.

[@averagestudent944]

Is this consider a PC?

[@techtechuw597]

Asus: Lets make a super fast 4x nvme NAS and cripple it with 2x2.5Gbps NICs! Just stupid...

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

Well if you were trying to match speeds for raw sequential throughput, even with Gen3 for 6x NVMe SSDs you would need like 150Gbps of networking.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@ServeTheHomeVideo Jesus Christ that’s a lot of Iops to crush

[@42medwards]

So is this overkill for storing my Linux ISO's? lol

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

This one actually might be a dedicated ISO and PXE boot NAS after :-/

[@thishandleisntavaiIable]

can that run windows

[@suoyidl2654]

M.2... with RJ45 - as a NAS. Funny

[@TheSonorabob]

2.5gbe for 6 NVME drives? Sweet.... let's also just slap some golf cart tires on our Bugatti while we're at it.

[@ziozzot]

looks like a ps4

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

It is fairly large.

[@smudgeous4068]

Compared to my PS4 pro, the 12 bay unit is nearly exactly the same depth and height, and about 60% of its width. It's quite similar in shape, just rotated 90°

[@mrtechie6810]

And the price is how many thousands of dollars?😂

[@ServeTheHomeVideo]

$449?

[@mrtechie6810]

@@ServeTheHomeVideo you forgot the cost of 6 SSDs!

[@smudgeous4068]

@@mrtechie6810 2TB Intel 670s are $73 each right now, so 6 would cost $438. That's still under $900 total.

[@mrtechie6810]

@@smudgeous4068 what's your use case for this?

[@smudgeous4068]

@@mrtechie6810 I wanted extra peace of mind that my most important files weren't exclusively being stored on spinning rust drives, and recently upgraded my home network to 10GBe. This coming in

[@xtradi]

I'd rather have sata flash with 2,5gb networking

[@wheelhouse69]

500mbps 😂😂

[@charliebaker1427]

Ps 3.5 ass lol