All-flash NAS fight: DIY or Buy – Round III!
Jeff Geerling Jeff Geerling
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 Published On Jul 10, 2023

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:    • Raspberry Pi vs ASUSTOR NAS Head-to-H...  
Part II:    • Raspberry Pi vs ASUSTOR NAS – Round II  

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...
- Setting up OMV on the Rock 5 model B: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...
- Installing TrueNAS on the ASUSTOR: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...

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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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