ASUSTOR Also Unveils Drivestor 2 and Drivestor 4 Entry-level Consumer NAS

[btarunr]

The Drivestor 2 and 4 are here and spelling the death knell for Gigabit Ethernet. The Drivestor 2 and 4 are equipped with two and four bays respectively and each contain a Realtek RTD1296 1.4 GHz Quad-Core processor and 1 GB of DDR4 memory for faster performance on an entry level NAS than ever before. The ultra-fast performance of the RTD1296 brings unbelievable performance at a budget-friendly price, bringing the best of enterprise-grade hardware to home storage.

Also arriving with the Drivestor series is ADM 4.0. Optimized, enhanced, secure, easier to use, efficient and fully featured, ADM 4.0 is better in every way thanks to the numerous improvements made. Transcode 4K H.265, 10-Bit media, an ASUSTOR first on an entry level NAS, helping LooksGood to play high-definition movies at almost any resolution. Transcode and play back video smoothly on the Drivestor 2 and 4 by reserving 512 MB of RAM for multimedia purposes by using Media Mode. Use AiData, AiVideos, AiMusic and AiFoto 3 on the Drivestor 2 and 4 to easily stream, enjoy, upload and download documents, photos, videos and music to and from smartphones for both home memories and exceeds the needs of young businesses. Store data at home or at the office easily and safely on a device that gives you control over your data on a device that won't break the bank.



The Drivestor 2 and 4 retail for $169/US and $269/US.

Main specifications

• CPU: Realtek RTD1296 Quad-Core 1.4 GHz CPU
• RAM: 1 GB DDR4
• Hard drive bays:
  o 2x (3.5" SATA HDD or SSD)
  o 4x (3.5" SATA HDD or SSD)
  o 1x 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet port (2.5G/1G/100M speed)
• Single port read speeds of 214 MB/s and write speeds of 266 MB/s (RAID 5)
• 1x front USB 3.2 Gen 1 port and 2x rear USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports
• Drivestor 2 / 4 maximum volume size of 36 TB / 72 TB
• Hardware based encryption engine and tool-free hard drive caddies
• RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, single drive and JBOD supported
• Supports seamless system migration
• Supports Wake On WAN and Wake on LAN

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[TheLostSwede]

Looks ok, but 1GB of RAM simply isn't enough for something like this anymore.
2GB should be a minimum when you can't expand the RAM.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Asustor did this same garbage last generation. They made a 2.5GBe NAS with upgradeable RAM and an intel celeron chip, and a 10GBe NAS with a marvell chip and soldered RAM. The 2GB of RAM and the marvell chip simply couldnt handle the 10Gb/s speeds unless it was simple bulk file transfer.

I was hoping they'd learn their lesson, but it appears not. I'll have to go with another company to get a 10Gbe with an intel chip and 8+ GB of RAM.

 

[Octavean]

Well one should never have high expectations from entry level consumer NAS hardware. These ARM solutions are usually bottom of the barrel stuff. If the ARM SoC that they use can go toe to toe with the Mac M1 then maybe you've got something reasonably powerful but chances are it'll perform just adequately for file serving and little else. Probably not even suitable for 2.5GbE let alone 10GbE.

I managed to get a QNAP TS-653D NAS new for around ~$350+ USD (on sale after savings and coupon). Not the best NAS but it was really good for the price. 6x HDD bays, 1x PCIe slot, built in 2.5GbE and it uses an x86 / x64 Intel Celeron j4125 quad-core 2.0 GHz processor (burst up to 2.7 GHz). I added a QNAP QM2-2P10G1TAQM2 add-in card to upgrade to 10GbE and dual NVMe SSD support. To be fair it doesn't really hit full 10GbE speeds either but it is a good deal faster then 1GbE, 2GbE and 5GbE so totally worth it.


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[TheLostSwede]

Well one should never have high expectations from entry level consumer NAS hardware. These ARM solutions are usually bottom of the barrel stuff. If the ARM SoC that they use can go toe to toe with the Mac M1 then maybe you've got something reasonably powerful but chances are it'll perform just adequately for file serving and little else. Probably not even suitable for 2.5GbE let alone 10GbE.

I managed to get a QNAP TS-653D NAS new for around ~$350+ USD (on sale after savings and coupon). Not the best NAS but it was really good for the price. 6x HDD bays, 1x PCIe slot, built in 2.5GbE and it uses an x86 / x64 Intel Celeron j4125 quad-core 2.0 GHz processor (burst up to 2.7 GHz). I added a QNAP QM2-2P10G1TAQM2 add-in card to upgrade to 10GbE and dual NVMe SSD support. To be fair it doesn't really hit full 10GbE speeds either but it is a good deal faster then 1GbE, 2GbE and 5GbE so totally worth it.


https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...estor-4-entry-level-consumer-nas.285219/reply

Sorry, but what are you on about?
The SoC is actually quite good, as it has network offloading built in. The M1 would make a pretty poor NAS, as it lacks any kind of network accelerators. This thing shouldn't have a problem doing 2.5Gbps speeds, even though it wasn't designed for it, as it can route more data than that natively. Maybe read up on the chip first before bashing it?

Good luck with your QNAP, they have their own share of issues. Plenty of unpatched security issues that they choose to ignore. I should know, as I've worked there. Decent hardware for sure, but they cut way too many corners on the software side.