Terramaster (finally) did a good job! - F4-424 Max!

[@TravisHershberger]

The USB2 boot device makes sense. How many times is a NAS going to boot outside of testing? Once each time an OS update releases. So should spend such a short amount of it's service life booting up that adding fast storage for booting makes very little sense.

[@2GuysTek]

It's like I said in the video, I'm sure they've done the math on what's necessary to get the unit reliable booted and functional and it looks like USB2 does the trick. Thanks for the insight!

[@danwilhelm7214]

Since this unit is geared towards HDD, I would have rather seen 2 x 2.5 gbe and 2 usb4 or TB4 ports. Imagine the huge expandability benefit. I would also do my own linux build with ZFS instead of btrfs. You did an excellent review!

[@2GuysTek]

Appreciate it! I can see your point, having a total of 20G of connectivity feels a tad overkill and they could definitely have used those PCIe lanes for TB4 or USB4. The beauty of this platform is that you really could roll any system you wanted and, as a platform, it'll happily run it.

[@danwilhelm7214]

@@wojtek-33 I understand your viewpoint, but my use case requires huge amounts of archival storage, not blazing transfer speeds. Data storage over usb works pretty well as long as your usb chipsets support UASP (uas driver). I've done terabytes worth of testing with mirrored HDD's which included checksumming the data before and after transfers to another mirror. I used the 10gb usb c ports between 2 Asus B550M Tuf Gaming motherboadrs for testing.

[@danwilhelm7214]

Additional note: I used a couple TerraMaster D6-320 DAS boxes and WD Red Plus HDDs.