This is only the first video of the NAS series. More coming soon. If you want me to cover certain topic or have any questions about NAS, drop them below👇
Hi could you go through setting up the firewall and using ClamAV (anti-malware). I've got an Asustor but could not get these settings setup? ClamAV wont update or hangs etc. Thanks
I am looking at the Asustor AS6704T 4-bay NAS as an upgrade to my Synology 2-bay. I will have to buy two additional Seagate Exos 16TB drives for RAID-6, I already have a new spare WD Black 1TB NVMe for cache. The Asustor also has 2.5Gbe which my main three computers also have, so that will boost write performance. I use the NAS strictly as one of four system backups.
Did you end up upgrading your RAM...or would you recommend that step or not necessary? Also, I was looking at getting 2 of the Seagate Exos X20 ST20000NM002D 512E/4KN SAS 12Gb/s 20TB 7200RPM 256MB Enterprise Hard Drive, but didn't see it on Asustor's table...I'm a rookie, but for the price and what it appears the SAS can do vs. the SATA, it seems worth it...? Thanks for the informative video and any input for this noob!
Not sure you will read this but this video is 2 years old and u mention doing a video on tips on how to use the NAS. I cant easily find it. You should make q playlist of all your NAS Videos since those have more longevity than reviewing some stuff and its hard to find it. Either way, This video was great. Thanks.
I know that M.2 SSD is possible to use as normal storage instead of cache. But I'm not able to found if it is possible to use it also for ADM system itself. I would like to have the system and most used data on SSD to prevent spin-up HDD disk all the time and use it as long-term backup storage.
How do you rate this compared to the popular Synology NAS range? I'm super new to this all but it seems this has the faster 2.5 gbps lan connections but people say the software with the Synology is better.
I know this kinda of old, and my AS6604T has been running great. I was going to upgrade my 12tb drives to 20's. I disabled the cache (SSD's), then shut down. Pulled drive 1 and installed the 1st 20tb drive. Figured ok, let the snapshot do it's job. I'm running RAID5 BTW. When it was done restoring, 1 day later, got error that it couldn't access the drive. Ok, shut down, pulled all 4 drives, put in all 4 20's. Let it sync but decide when it was done, to shut down, pull them out and put the ORIG 4 drives back in place. Yes, they were ALL numbered so I put them back in order. Now, I'm getting errors when I log into the ADM, saying the drives have ZERO space, and can't access. WTH. I've rebooted it a few times, removed, re-inserted. I do have a full backup of all my data but though RAID 5 is suppose to be hotswapable, something went south with my system and now, I can't even access the orig drives. Searching for answers, I ended up here. Great video. I'm going to review it and see if it shines any light as to what my issue might be and how to fix it without starting from zero and restoring all my data, all 30TB it. What I'm seeing in Storage Manager under Volume is, Volume 1 / RAID 5 / Inaccessible. Thought your video is great, I've seen elsewhere what swapping out drives does not go as smooth as IT SHOULD. /smh
Hello. Sit Rep: 1 desktop, 1 laptop, 1 Nas AS6604T, 1 router gigabit, 1 network switch, 1 monitor. How can i use the NAS AS6604T from bouth pcs, desktop and laptop ? Do you use any UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) in your setup ?
Hey THX for this and that you do all that work for your Community👌 ! I am really interested how this NAS will perform. And one big Question: If i can remember correctly you have the MSI prestige X570 Motherboard with 10G Lan, for what reason you want take a 10g Nas ? Will you connect the 2x2,5G to get out 5G (link aggregation) is it necessary to have a switch for that ? Did you decided to get the Lockerstore or came Asustor up to you and wanted you to test it ? Is it best bang for buck ? Have to be all drives the same (size and brand) or can they be Mixed (Bsp: 2x12GB and 2x4GB ? And one last Question: If you have 2,5G will there be a bottleneck without the NVME`s ? That are many questions in my shaky english :) I am excited on the upcoming videos ... Great Work Lauri thanks a lot !!!!👍👏
bought this nas because of your video ;) i built my pc with your advice an i am really lucky with it so what is good for you - schould be good for me :) THX for that. Really exciting for the upcoming Videos ...
Does the hardware limit 2.5 aggregated, 5000/5000? Why did you you go raid 5 instead of 10 as a rebuild of raid 5 is less likely to succeed. You also said the NIC limits the the speed, but your running at half speed without aggregating them. With the nvme as a cache it'd be so much faster than spinning rust, it it can cache write as well
Thanks for the video! It would be nice to also see how well this NAS can handle reading video files /editing videos stored directly on NAS, especially since you have those fast NVMe drives and Asustor allows to use those as storage... unlike Synology NAS, where you can only use those as cache.
I'm getting ready to build a PC for video editing and your videos have been the most informative resource I've found. Can you do a video on USB4.0 for video editors? As far as I can tell, USB4.0 is technically out there somewhere, but I can't find any motherboards that have USB4 ports built in. I usually edit off of an external drive because I want to be able to go back and forth between laptop and desktop, and from what I can tell, NVME drives have transfer speeds higher than 20Gbps, so the 40Gbps speed of USB4 could come in handy. My questions are: should I wait until I can get a motherboard that includes USB4, or can I just buy a USB4 card later on and attach it to whatever motherboard I get? Do I have to buy a certain kind of CPU to take full advantage of USB4? Are there any other components that need to be compatible? Is it even going to make a difference for editing off of an external nvme ssd? I've had trouble getting these questions answered just by googling, so I figured I'd ask you. Thanks!
@@theTechNotice Thanks! And do you know if any of the other components have to be compatible (cpu, etc?) or does it not matter? I'm new to this PC building thing, so sorry if that's a stupid question.
Can I use this as external HDD? I was looking for a Photo app like Google photos to backup photos n videos directly from mobile and connect with PC to use the NAS storage as PC HDD
Well, that was very interesting and complete. Thank you very much for the clear explanations. I may go with that solution, but with 4x 8TB HDD, they are way cheaper when it comes to price/TB. Also, I am not sure to see the point of having the NVME SSD if you can't have faster speed than with the HDD ? Also, why a NAS and not a DAS in your use case ? Very excited about your next videos about this topic ;)
Good questions good questions! The nvme is definitely not necessary, but has a faster random read/write so if you have a lot of smaller files on it that you use often like, LUTs, or other presets or documents then the read speed will be faster on the nvme if that makes sense :)
Do you, or anybody else, know if a universal wireless (usb) keyboard with tracking pad can be connected to the AS6604T? Asustor sells a remote control seperately and I want to use the AS6604T via HDMI directly as a media server on my television.
@Tech Notice Excelente video, muy bien explicado. Podrás decirme? si la memoria ram de fabrica viene soldada? Y de no ser asi, como se puede reemplazar x 2 bancos de memorias sodimm de 16giga ddr4 a 2666Mhz y tener un total de ram de 32gb ddr4 a 2666Mhz. Gracias
Need slight improvement on camera focus and you sitting just in front of the camera, can barely see your screen recording, the resolution is too high for recorded video.
The bottleneck from what I could see was from 1 PC to another - is the switch in between. If the Asustor and your Computer both had 2.5 Gbps throughput and the switch was only 1 Gbps - then thats your bottleneck, not the hard drives.
Wow the two ports on the back should go to your router only! that's for link aggregation to speed up transfers, you're wasting bandwidth by connecting the nas to your computer, you don't need to at all, just access it through your router. I did not learn much from your video, I would suggest you have more info and more knowledge of the product before creating a how to video that looks like you're stumbling through it and finding out things about it's capability during your video.
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This is only the first video of the NAS series. More coming soon. If you want me to cover certain topic or have any questions about NAS, drop them below👇
Hi could you go through setting up the firewall and using ClamAV (anti-malware). I've got an Asustor but could not get these settings setup? ClamAV wont update or hangs etc. Thanks
How is your experience, with using the Asustor? Would be nice to see more NAS videos coming up.
I am looking at the Asustor AS6704T 4-bay NAS as an upgrade to my Synology 2-bay. I will have to buy two additional Seagate Exos 16TB drives for RAID-6, I already have a new spare WD Black 1TB NVMe for cache. The Asustor also has 2.5Gbe which my main three computers also have, so that will boost write performance. I use the NAS strictly as one of four system backups.
I had been waiting for this with anticipation. Thank you very much!
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@@theTechNotice and... I bought one! Thank you for the video. It was very helpful.
Did you end up upgrading your RAM...or would you recommend that step or not necessary? Also, I was looking at getting 2 of the Seagate Exos X20 ST20000NM002D 512E/4KN SAS 12Gb/s 20TB 7200RPM 256MB Enterprise Hard Drive, but didn't see it on Asustor's table...I'm a rookie, but for the price and what it appears the SAS can do vs. the SATA, it seems worth it...? Thanks for the informative video and any input for this noob!
Hey me again haha, ordered a further 2 8Gb drives just now :)
Your video has helped a lot with the setup of this NAS.
Not sure you will read this but this video is 2 years old and u mention doing a video on tips on how to use the NAS. I cant easily find it. You should make q playlist of all your NAS Videos since those have more longevity than reviewing some stuff and its hard to find it. Either way, This video was great. Thanks.
I know that M.2 SSD is possible to use as normal storage instead of cache. But I'm not able to found if it is possible to use it also for ADM system itself. I would like to have the system and most used data on SSD to prevent spin-up HDD disk all the time and use it as long-term backup storage.
How do you rate this compared to the popular Synology NAS range? I'm super new to this all but it seems this has the faster 2.5 gbps lan connections but people say the software with the Synology is better.
I'm building a Raid 5 ( 32TB ) with their Gen 2 4bay drive 🔥 great review...I didn't know building the raid took that long 👀
Wouldn’t that be 24tb then? Please correct me if im wrong, still learning all of this
Nice
I know this kinda of old, and my AS6604T has been running great. I was going to upgrade my 12tb drives to 20's. I disabled the cache (SSD's), then shut down. Pulled drive 1 and installed the 1st 20tb drive. Figured ok, let the snapshot do it's job. I'm running RAID5 BTW. When it was done restoring, 1 day later, got error that it couldn't access the drive. Ok, shut down, pulled all 4 drives, put in all 4 20's. Let it sync but decide when it was done, to shut down, pull them out and put the ORIG 4 drives back in place. Yes, they were ALL numbered so I put them back in order. Now, I'm getting errors when I log into the ADM, saying the drives have ZERO space, and can't access. WTH. I've rebooted it a few times, removed, re-inserted. I do have a full backup of all my data but though RAID 5 is suppose to be hotswapable, something went south with my system and now, I can't even access the orig drives. Searching for answers, I ended up here.
Great video. I'm going to review it and see if it shines any light as to what my issue might be and how to fix it without starting from zero and restoring all my data, all 30TB it.
What I'm seeing in Storage Manager under Volume is, Volume 1 / RAID 5 / Inaccessible. Thought your video is great, I've seen elsewhere what swapping out drives does not go as smooth as IT SHOULD. /smh
Just ordered this now :) only could add 2 8th tb ironwolf drives right now ££££££££ haha cannot wait
Hello. Sit Rep: 1 desktop, 1 laptop, 1 Nas AS6604T, 1 router gigabit, 1 network switch, 1 monitor. How can i use the NAS AS6604T from bouth pcs, desktop and laptop ? Do you use any UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) in your setup ?
Very useful 💪
good video
Hey THX for this and that you do all that work for your Community👌 ! I am really interested how this NAS will perform. And one big Question: If i can remember correctly you have the MSI prestige X570 Motherboard with 10G Lan, for what reason you want take a 10g Nas ? Will you connect the 2x2,5G to get out 5G (link aggregation) is it necessary to have a switch for that ? Did you decided to get the Lockerstore or came Asustor up to you and wanted you to test it ? Is it best bang for buck ? Have to be all drives the same (size and brand) or can they be Mixed (Bsp: 2x12GB and 2x4GB ? And one last Question: If you have 2,5G will there be a bottleneck without the NVME`s ? That are many questions in my shaky english :) I am excited on the upcoming videos ... Great Work Lauri thanks a lot !!!!👍👏
Thanks for all your questions! Will address them in future videos. :)
bought this nas because of your video ;) i built my pc with your advice an i am really lucky with it so what is good for you - schould be good for me :) THX for that. Really exciting for the upcoming Videos ...
haha, glad to hear that! :)
Does the hardware limit 2.5 aggregated, 5000/5000?
Why did you you go raid 5 instead of 10 as a rebuild of raid 5 is less likely to succeed.
You also said the NIC limits the the speed, but your running at half speed without aggregating them. With the nvme as a cache it'd be so much faster than spinning rust, it it can cache write as well
i don't understand, the nVME are used as a storage as well? you can use only the 2 nVME for storage? if yes why they don't make a smaller version>?
🥇🥇🥇 first.
Amazing build. It' looks so easy, can't wait for the rest of the series.
👍🙂
Thanks for the video! It would be nice to also see how well this NAS can handle reading video files /editing videos stored directly on NAS, especially since you have those fast NVMe drives and Asustor allows to use those as storage... unlike Synology NAS, where you can only use those as cache.
Good questions and points! :)
Would like to see that too!
Thank you so much for this video
Most welcome 😊
Can you access your files/drives on your smartphone outside the local network without opening a port? Let's say via an Asustor app?
Yes :)
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I'm getting ready to build a PC for video editing and your videos have been the most informative resource I've found. Can you do a video on USB4.0 for video editors? As far as I can tell, USB4.0 is technically out there somewhere, but I can't find any motherboards that have USB4 ports built in. I usually edit off of an external drive because I want to be able to go back and forth between laptop and desktop, and from what I can tell, NVME drives have transfer speeds higher than 20Gbps, so the 40Gbps speed of USB4 could come in handy. My questions are: should I wait until I can get a motherboard that includes USB4, or can I just buy a USB4 card later on and attach it to whatever motherboard I get? Do I have to buy a certain kind of CPU to take full advantage of USB4? Are there any other components that need to be compatible? Is it even going to make a difference for editing off of an external nvme ssd? I've had trouble getting these questions answered just by googling, so I figured I'd ask you. Thanks!
Check out these 2 motherboards: Gigabyte B550 Vision d-p ( it has TB3, which is 40Gb) and Asus Proart B550 Creator (it has TB4 which is also 40Gb) :)
@@theTechNotice Thanks! And do you know if any of the other components have to be compatible (cpu, etc?) or does it not matter? I'm new to this PC building thing, so sorry if that's a stupid question.
Why 2x 480gb ssd ? I mean wouldn't it be the same if lets say I used 240GB ? I really don't get how the caching works I guess!
Help, what kind of ram fits in and how many GB? I can't find anything on ASUSTOR website about it?
What about adding existing hard disks from my old nas. Is there a way to migrate without losing data? Just got my 6602. Excellent video by the way!
Good question, and I'd ask that from Asustor they know the technical stuff more in depth!
Maybe a Docker tutorial or Plex in the future?
Can I use this as external HDD? I was looking for a Photo app like Google photos to backup photos n videos directly from mobile and connect with PC to use the NAS storage as PC HDD
This is very comprehensive, great work. I’m looking at one for pro video editing purposes. So this was extremely useful.
Stay tuned for full review ;)
@@theTechNotice I had a look at the reviews on Amazon and they don’t look good. I’ll have to do some more research on the quality of this product.
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Where there screw holes in the bottom of the hard drive trays for 2.5" drives?
We hope that your review of the product as usual
Yes, will do. There's a lot to test out here :)
Is there an updated video of this?
Well, that was very interesting and complete. Thank you very much for the clear explanations. I may go with that solution, but with 4x 8TB HDD, they are way cheaper when it comes to price/TB. Also, I am not sure to see the point of having the NVME SSD if you can't have faster speed than with the HDD ?
Also, why a NAS and not a DAS in your use case ?
Very excited about your next videos about this topic ;)
Good questions good questions!
The nvme is definitely not necessary, but has a faster random read/write so if you have a lot of smaller files on it that you use often like, LUTs, or other presets or documents then the read speed will be faster on the nvme if that makes sense :)
Do you, or anybody else, know if a universal wireless (usb) keyboard with tracking pad can be connected to the AS6604T?
Asustor sells a remote control seperately and I want to use the AS6604T via HDMI directly as a media server on my television.
As far as I know it should be, but don't quote me on that, I'm not ASUSTOR CS :)
Why would you use a five instead of 10? Seems like a waste of proof romance cause then would give the most out of those drives.
@Tech Notice
Excelente video, muy bien explicado.
Podrás decirme? si la memoria ram de fabrica viene soldada? Y de no ser asi, como se puede reemplazar x 2 bancos de memorias sodimm de 16giga ddr4 a 2666Mhz y tener un total de ram de 32gb ddr4 a 2666Mhz.
Gracias
Can I use one of these to access my films remotely
Yes.
Need slight improvement on camera focus and you sitting just in front of the camera, can barely see your screen recording, the resolution is too high for recorded video.
The bottleneck from what I could see was from 1 PC to another - is the switch in between. If the Asustor and your Computer both had 2.5 Gbps throughput and the switch was only 1 Gbps - then thats your bottleneck, not the hard drives.
But did you REALLY read and understood all the above? I think not.
Or you can get freenas
Wow the two ports on the back should go to your router only! that's for link aggregation to speed up transfers, you're wasting bandwidth by connecting the nas to your computer, you don't need to at all, just access it through your router. I did not learn much from your video, I would suggest you have more info and more knowledge of the product before creating a how to video that looks like you're stumbling through it and finding out things about it's capability during your video.
ASUSTOR service is horrible.
is this your first Video??? you need to read up on the devices first before your videos!!!