Terramaster T9-450 NAS Hardware Review - 20GbE Powerful Value?

Video Chapters
00:00 - The Start
00:32 - Why Do People Buy Terramaster NAS?
01:08 - Hardware Specifications of the T9-450
01:54 - Why are there no Benchmarks in this video?
02:45 - Unboxing the Terramaster T9-450 NAS - What is Included?
04:48 - 3rd Partty Memory Support in a Terramaster NAS?
06:38 - Terramaster T9-450 NAS Chassis Design
10:01 - Ports and Connections of the T9-450
13:36 - Internal Hardware of the Terramaster T9-450 NAS
18:52 - Software Highlights
23:07 - Verdict - INSANE VALUE

Remember when desktop 9-Bay NAS systems were not a thing? Yeah. It doesn’t seem to long ago that the paradigm of 2/4/8-Bay tower chassis was the status quo, yet over the last few years we have seen 5-Bay systems launch, 6-Bay systems flourish from all the established NAS brands and Terramaster continues to push forward with it’s growing range of 9-Bay tower devices. The new T9-450 is technically their 4th (really, their 3rd) and in the short time they have been in production, they have been very popular. Bringing a rackmount aesthetic and build quality to the humble desktop design we are used to, these were part of an arguably long-overdue chassis redesign by the brand! The T9-450 is possibly the most business/enterprise targetted entry into their tower NAS portfolio, arriving with a very different CPU than usual by the brand, tremendous network connectivity out the box, yet still attempting to hit a price point that flys way, way under the benchmark of their competitors at Synology and QNAP. This and the T9-450 arriving as an all in one hardware-software solution with TOS 5.1 included will definitely give businesses looking to store alot of data, but access it as quickly as possible, pause for thought! But is the Terramster T9-450 all hardware and no utility? Is it all sizzle and no sausage? Let’s review the T9-450 NAS and see if it deserves your data.

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[InspectorGadget]

Nice!
I would say they are truly the challengers of the industry, quite affordable and still powerful...
Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

[arndgronenberg]

Thanks for the review, Rob!
This look like a quite capable machine and I do like, that they include 2 NVMe slots.
I'm not quite convinced regarding the form factor of the device. I would prefer a rack mount version, but the only viable rack mount NAS from Terramaster (U4-423) only has a single NVMe slot.

[rfitzgerald]

I love the overall design, I hope some day they'll make a 12 bay version in a rackmount form factor

[joeh]

Will you be reviewing the T9-500 Pro or T12-500 Pro??

[JasonsLabVideos]

Nice work sir !! Looks like a nice little unit too !! Is it quiet ?

[wolfman]

Looks like you could change the 10gb SFP ports with an M.2 adapter to add 1 or 2, 2.5gbe ports easy enough. The pci slot if working could add a whole new scale of hacking a dremel work :0

[martinpsmithuk]

Need to get a bigger NAS and currently use an old DS418play. I'm using it for movies, mostly 4k. How does this perform in respect to plex and emby? I hear conflicting stories that you should avoid Terramaster for media.

[giovannifrancesco]

I purchased this unit when it first came out and I had network performance issues on TOS OS on the 10gb nic - there was packet loss and other than loading the web UI when only connected thru 10gb sfp+ the device was pretty much useless for file transfers (my goal was to push data from my linux 10gb NAS to this and benchmark it but w/o proper driver support from the TOS it was impossible so I returned it).

[zstation]

Why are you talking about £400 for SFP to RJ45 convertors? They're like £45 each for Unifi branded ones, slightly less for the 10GTEK ones.

[benjaminleonhardi]

A 1200$ NAS that has a CPU with a 20% less powerful CPU than the venerable 920+? Thats a hard sell but I guess for a pure file server it would be quite powerful. Still the 1821+ has like twice the power with a similar price...