Terramaster F8 SSD NAS - SHOULD YOU BUY? (Short Review)

[@RajBhatt]

I'm loving my F8 SSD Plus. TOS6 is pretty great but I ended up installing Unraid on it and it is a little beast. BTW, I have a 48GB SODIMM installed in mine and it works great! Corsair CMSX48GX5M1A4800C40 for anyone else that wants to do that.

[@fcasinhas]

How do you setup the ssd on unraid?

[@RajBhatt]

@fcasinhas I chose "none" for the array and set up all eight 4TB SSDs as a ZFS pool.

[@junior-OG]

@@RajBhatt do you get 1GB/s up/down ?

[@RajBhatt]

@@junior-OG My desktop is limited to 2.5gbps right now but I'm updating it to 10gbps this weekend. Right now it is saturating the 2.5gbps line.

[@junior-OG]

@@RajBhatt ok thanks 👍

[@aaronjohnson9755]

For all the complaints… the plus will be replacing my DS1019+

[@PeterBuffon]

With fewer and fewer power draw that processors and nvme drives take i wish there were more passive cooled cases/devices, this is an example, you could realistic passive cool this guy, using the case to radiate heat and with that 0 noise too.

[@efimovv]

NVME drives usually very hot.

[@kuroexmachina]

im just waiting for the flashtor gen 2

[@Nayef180]

If the lockerstor gen 3 price is any indication, I would not cold my breath.

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

I still vote for two CWWK P5 boards or one of the branded variants in a case. Although if this drops in price, I'd consider it.

[@nascompares]

Watch black Friday....these guys absolutely HAMMER those sales

[@angelclaw]

You mean two expansion boards connected to a single P5 board, right?

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

@angelclaw no, I mean two complete mini PCs. Since the P5 lacks a case it is marketed as a development board.

[@rodfer5406]

Yes, should have more ports

[@coolraul07]

11:03 - Hol'up... how are the randoms so much faster than the sequentials?

[@nascompares]

Just catching up, will check. oOO right now and needs to get to the original recording for he setup

[@SP_99999]

Hw platform seems ok, does it support installing alternative os? It would be a good base for truenas

[@nascompares]

100% it does. Running UnRAID on it now. Keep in mind you will need to KVM into it for a TrueNAS install - as that needs OS installation and a target drive

[@pbuedi]

Installed XCP-ng, OpenMedia Vault and TrueNAS Scale on it. At least for the latter one you need to disable VT-d in the BIOS. Not a big deal for me, because I do not see why I would pass through any PCIe device to TNS, but I am not the only person on the planet sooo... Getting the Plus was a no-brainer for me with the 150€ discount on their homepage they had at that time :-)

[@RajBhatt]

@@nascompares I had to turn VT-d off in the BIOS to run Unraid. Did you have the same experience?

[@helzapoppin9810]

Yep. Gen3x1 is definitely a dealbreaker

[@AlphaConde-qy7vi]

Depends on the use case

[@frankwong9486]

100 dollars doscount ends at 18 oct and now back to srp price 😢

[@Innosint]

will probably drop again during black friday.

[@nascompares]

#whathesaid

[@AlphaConde-qy7vi]

Surely they'll make it permanent, especially after Asustor has unleashed their Flashstor Gen 2. Don't cede to FOMO.

[@aijokker]

Which NAS do you use at home, which at the office?

[@nascompares]

Oh where to start. I use a QNAP for multimedia, but also a Synology that syncs with the QNAP for my pc backups via Active Backup Suite. There is a Terramaster (F4-424, recent upgrade) as my off-site backup, and a Samsung/Seagate USB backup on the syn and terra. At the office I have...well...all of the brands and OS', for a combination of videos, testing and for demos to users in support cases. I also have a Synology there that is sync'd with the Synology at home.

[@ConorHanley]

A tail of two throttles make systems like this less then ideal and hardly worth the extra expense of using SSDs

[@doradeutsch2340]

I would have a problem to justify the price of it. But this includes all other devices of the product category. For an empty board with some RAM and a CPU this is far too much money.

[@roderickwho1983]

Thanks.

[@MyScreen-pg5ru]

Nobody is reviewing the non plus model. I guess they're not passing them out to reviewers like candy like the plus model. Can't find a single review on the non plus model.

[@nascompares]

Good Q! The answer is that (at least in my own experience, but I imagine it's universal - can only speak for the UK) Terramaster reach out to be periodically to ask if I would like to review X device. No £ etc, just send a unit, review it, say whatever you like, then keep/return it. From there, if a unit has variations (eg QNAP with the TS-264 or TS-464, or Asustor with the Lockerstor 2, 4, 6 etc), they ask which one you would prefer. Generally at that point, little-to-no other reviews are out there and a reviewer will more often than not pick the one that will be the most demanded/popular. So, I picked the F8 SSD Plus. And I imagine everyone else did. Sometimes the brand will notice a massive void in coverage of a particular variation (UGREEN did this with their DXP series) and open up a 2nd wave, whereupon there ends ups being higher % of users picking the other system variation). A GENUINE thank you for asking your question, as it's rare I get a chance to answer an "inside baseball" level Q like this online. Hope that clarified it

[@logiclust]

It’s great if you put unpaid on it

[@logiclust]

Unraid

[@coolraul07]

...at least you didn't say TrueAss! 😂

[@gambitgambitgambit]

@@coolraul07😂😂😂

[@junior-OG]

@@coolraul07 😂😂

[@ΜαρίνοςΤ-μ4ρ]

Sounds good

[@rodfer5406]

Good

[@CoolStuff..]

Cool

[@ConorHanley]

What is that horrible 'rock' snippet that keeps popping up to really annoy. Hideous.