Terramaster F4-424 Pro NAS - Should You Buy?

[@pcfreakx]

Based on the advice of this channel I bought the F4-223, installed TrueNAS Scale and man, it's been awesome. Upgraded to 32GB RAM, put 4x18TB drives in it and it's amazing.

[@ericsmith5317]

Hey there, did you buy Terramaster memory, or were you able to use a different brand? and was it a singe channel 32GB?

[@shenaneggans]

wait thats literally what my plan is. glad to hear its working well for you!

[@yamato2183]

Are you going to make a video about the plain F4-424 Terramaster? Especially about the value comparison with the pro-version, considering the price difference...

[@DreaMeRHoLic]

Mine arrived 2 weeks ago and i'm looking forward to watch this video. It's my first NAS and i'm still getting used to some problems, like the fact that the NAS keeps making noises from time to time, while the HDDs should be idle. One big thing was that the NAS OS was set to Chinese time and my Plex account was set to EU time and the daily database check happened at 7pm every day, so every evening it started to check my database while i was at home at my PC... even unhooking the LAN didnt help, but since i found that option it seems to be quiet.

[@simonfaulkner5596]

If it can be wiped and loaded with TrueNAS or Proxmox then I would say it's the best small business NAS on the market.

[@js8905]

Agree. Or UnRaid.

[@HikaruGCT]

it can be terramaster do not lock any products down.

[@misku_]

"so you come crawling back..." interlude with Frank Reynolds - priceless pun 😆

[@Raithmir]

The AlderLake-N CPU's only support a single channel of memory. Intel have a history of listing "maximum" memory limits of just what DIMM sizes were available at release. 32GB is just fine on AlderLake-N, and even new 48GB DIMM's.

[@spanky-wrath8339]

Got the F4-424, dont need the pro version for my needs, stayed with tos 5.1 as im not as clued up with networks and settings, but am awaiting to see what arrives with version 6.0 and if it fixes the issues i have

[@iankester-haney3315]

Im rolling my eyes at the annoyingly repitious use of that clip.

[@RogerioPereiradaSilva77]

As a huge Liz Lemon fan, to put it mildly, I'll wholeheartedly disagree, good sir!

[@MichaelBennett1]

I’ve been absolutely delighted with my F4-423 that I got at £100 discount from Aliexpress. Such a huge speed upgrade from my old arm based Qnap

[@alimfuzzy]

I just want a plex media server is this good enough? Or should i spend a bit more for qnap or synology?

[@nascompares]

For just Plex, definitely a good choice

[@DaBud9263]

First nas for me. Would you recommend the F4-424 or the DS423+ for Plex server, surveillance, photos etc.?

[@JohnPob]

F4-424 it’s newer and will offer better performance, i have a ds920+ and the ds423+ are literally the same hardware 2/3 years apart. Terramaster for hardware, but Synology software kicks it’s arse

[@DA-bc8wg]

Thanks for the response. I really like Synology. Would be nice if they updated theDS423+ in the hardware department.The software is top of the class!@@JohnPob

[@AndySomething]

I assume there is an internal port to plug in a usb stick for booting off unraid? If so how much clearance is there? Would it require one of those micro flash drives like the Samsung fit plus, or a little more space to play with?

[@booradley4835]

There’s an internal usb but there’s just enough space for another low profile usb drive after removing the existing one with TOS on it. I’m using a sandisk ultra fit with unraid on it and has been working great

[@AndySomething]

@@booradley4835 Thank you, I appreciate the response. Yeah I'll probably go for a slim usb drive like that then. I'm looking into my first unRAID usb stick and some people were recommending those "industrial" SLC usb sticks but they are generally a bit longer, so just wanted to know if they would work in a case like this (probably not).

[@sheriffkhan7356]

Bought the Samsung Fit Plus 64gb, and it did not fit (too long, and MB/case won't close). Had to get a SanDisk Ultra Fit, which worked. Loaded Unraid and its been rock solid.

[@L1vv4n]

I own a QNAP device, only benefit of it's OS over plain linux file server is a cloud service, which should be paid for separately and I don't need, at the cost of print server. There is also GUI, but I don't really need it for the NAS, most of the time it's just a mounted network folder/disk. If Terramaster allows installation of TrueNAS or just plain old linux distribution it have better software support than ANY other NAS with restricted firmware.

[@azzznar2486]

Would this unit be a good option to use as a nas server for video editing?

[@doug2014]

Hey I have a terramaster F2-212 and I what to switch to a terramaster F4-424 I have a 8TB and a 4TB HDD from the F2-212 that I been using for Plex and want to put it in the F4-424 but don’t know how to proceed any help would be greatly appreciated?

[@JokerTheVlad]

I reached out to Terramaster and they said it has hdmi 2.1 In the video it says 2.0 so was wondering are you wrong? Or are Terramaster wrong

[@thegerman3480]

Power button on the back & no USB on the front FFS! At this price point would also expect an LCD display on the front at the very least. Apart from that mine's a BEAST!

[@Yandarval]

What it will be with the memory is the "chipset/Memory controller". While Intel qualifies thing to support "X". There are always some RAM modules that just work in such a way (timings, chip layout, architecture etc) that hits the "Goldilocks" combo, that they work past the limit. Its been a thing for many years. TerraMaster will be supplying those particular flavour of RAM sticks.

[@handrzej]

i3-n305 can use up to 48GB DDR5 single channel single stick... no problem at all with it.

[@hmj8469]

Does anyone know of any other NAS on the horizon with the i3-n305?

[@Mutio86]

I have been looking and didn’t find anything unfortunately..

[@realfarfoxache]

It is i3-N305 according to specs on terra master site not N300

[@billymcnomates7764]

The Ventilation looks better on the old Terramaster. TOS 5 becomes problematic after doing basic stuff but magically you can install other OS's. TerraMaster reckon my F5-221 can only have 8GB mem but I am running 10GB just fine.

[@kicaj741]

I'll tell you a story you wont read on Amazon, etc because they would most likely delete my story. It took my 3 days to realize: behind a great hardware for a price for NAS stands full of flaws TOS 6.X and all its embeeded apps. Copying the 3TB to external drive - failed without clear log stating whats going on. Trying to backup my 350GB OneDrive stucks (fails) in the middle with no clear log on whats going on and possibility to restart it. Survivelance does not work while it worked flawlessly on my previous NAS. Flaws, flaws, flaws even on the level of pure copy of the data to external hdd or running things in parallel. Thus, unless you unraid it (but thats additional cost unless you bought (or download) a license for it) this is extremely unrealiable piece of hardware/software. Shame for Terramaster to deliver such product with so many flaws in their software. Risk of getting your data lost is incredible.

[@hans-peterschmid7749]

For me, this box would be the ideal box for building a PROXMOX server.

[@americathefree3708]

Like the info, only I don't even know what the hell this is, or does.

[@LeaCoombe]

please remove the cut out videos to sitcoms - with the adverts it just breaks up the good content you are presenting

[@Sudds1888]

Was going to but pulled the pin on prebuilt NAS, repurposed my PC, bought a Fractal Design Define 7, power limited my i9 10900k, idling at 15w, plenty of cores and boost clocks if needed.

[@ReQuiem_2099]

😂 Intel artificially limiting their low power CPUs (on paper) is nothing new, has nothing to do with "stability" and everything to do with predatory market segmentation. I'm running a single 48GB DDR5 SODIMM module in my N305 Beelink EQ12 Pro perfectly fine. Just as I, and everyone else that's used previous Pentium/Celeron based NUCs in their homelabs for the last decade have run >8GB of RAM flawlessly.