All-flash NAS fight: DIY or Buy – Round III!

Special thanks to both ASUSTOR and Silvertip Labs for sending these NAS storage servers to test!

I purchased the drives used in the video, though the two Seagate IronWolf NVMe drives I put into my older NAS were provided by Seagate.

Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBccak8f-VY
Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3jwQzb46Zc

Here are things I mentioned in this video (some links are Amazon affiliate links):

  - ASUSTOR AS-T10G3 Dual M.2 + 10 GbE card: https://amzn.to/3D1DUpV
  - TeamGroup M.2 SATA 1TB SSD (for Pocket NAS): https://amzn.to/3D3FJTl
  - TeamGroup M.2 NVMe 1TB SSD (for Flashstor): https://amzn.to/3PPySV0
  - ASUSTOR Flashstor 12 Pro: https://amzn.to/3NIfQxh
  - SilverTip Labs' PocketNAS questionnaire: https://rpgtavern.live/index.php?page=mininas
  - Setting up OMV on the Rock 5 model B: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/building-tiny-6-drive-m2-nas-rock-5-model-b
  - Installing TrueNAS on the ASUSTOR: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/how-i-installed-truenas-on-my-new-asustor-nas

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Contents:

00:00 - Flash-off and new plans
00:39 - The contenders: Flashstor and Pocket NAS
01:28 - Pocket NAS: Rock 5 model B and OMV
04:51 - Flashstor 12 Pro: Intel and ADM
07:11 - PCIe is the bottleneck
08:11 - Read speeds good enough for video editing
09:28 - The best feature: TrueNAS?
11:11 - The victor
11:59 - A glimpse of the future

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