MY CRAZY Editing NAS Upgrade... feat. Asustor Lockerstor 6 Gen2 [as6706t]

My NAS upgrade didn't go as I wanted, BUT there's some exciting things we can do with it!

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Edited by Sam Ruddick
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0:00 Intro
0:20 Sponsored Segment
0:43 Thanks to ASUSTOR & Seagate
1:00 NAS Specs
1:13 Why?
1:53 2 Things I wanted for NAS
2:44 What SSDs I'm using?
2:50 WHY use NAS rated SSDs?
4:29 +2x NVME SSDs?!?!
5:14 NAS Overview & Ports
6:11 WHY ASUSTOR NAS?
7:16 NAS Teardown
8:20 10Gbe Card upgrade...
9:02 Here's the CPU & RAM slots
9:44 Installing SSDs
10:35 Setting UP the NAS...
11:05 ASUSTOR is AWESOME!
11:20 IT DIDN'T WORK!!!!
12:30 Compatibility List & easy mistakes!
13:33 I'm using these HDDs
14:00 NAS Is Working & SSD Caching
14:48 How the NAS is set up?
15:30 Speed test (Crystal Disk Mark)
16:09 [HDD] Real world speed test [File Transfer]
17:25 5Gb Speed hack on 2.5Gb
22:17 Is it FAST enough for editing?
22:40 NAS SYNC cheat...
23:55 Exciting things coming!
24:17 Best PC to build for Creators!

[chrisk]

Every thing begins with compatibility and ends with stability..

Great stuff ❤❤

[DJaquithFL]

The smallest M.2 (cache) that you want in RAID 1 should be no smaller than two times your typical project size. 1 TB SSDs in a NAS .. I guess if it's all free.

[CrazyKakyoinWorld]

I have been binge watching you for 2 days straight absolutely love the content and insight especially the SSD TBW data that made me realize that my ssds are temporary thank you keep up the good work. God Bless

[sabyasacheebanik]

Yes pls a tutorial of Nas Will be awesome It will be great to know how Asustor amd Qnap differ by how much. And also how raid works and how to setup it as required.

[daveg]

I have been eyeing the Asustor AS6704T 4-Bay NAS to upgrade my Synology 2-Bay. I would have to purchase two more Seagate 16TB drives to run it in RAID-6, and I already have a spare new WD Black 1TB NVMe drive for the cache. The Synology only has 1GBe so the Asustor 2.5GBe will be nice. I use my NAS strictly for one of four data backup methods for all of my workstations, so the NAS is only on for an hour at the end of the day while I do backups.

[denverag]

For my file servers lately i have been using the 960GB Optane drives, extreme performance, extreme write endurance, takes the write load off of SSDs, acts more like RAM, makes an array of HDDs feel like SATA SSDs

Edit, while the 960GB drives are much faster, and much better value(only costs 2x as much as the 120GB drive) the problem for most people is that the 960GB drive is not an M.2 drive, its a 15mm U.2 drive, which means your case needs to support both 15mm 2.5 inch drives, and you need to be able to run an M.2 to U.2 adapter cable to wherever the U.2 drive is mounted meaning you basically need to build your own NAS instead of just adding it to an existing NAS

For this ASUSTOR you could probably use the 120GB M.2 optane drives, but you're giving up a lot of storage, because these 120GB drives cost about as much as a high end 2TB NVMe. Yes Optane's response time means it acts more like RAM, but the capacity is so limited, and the write speeds lower than many gen3 drives.

I guess it depends on what you want to do with the M.2 slots, if you want to use them for caching the SATA drives, then go with Optane, much lower latency making it faster than an SSD for caching, but if you're wanting to make a SATA storage array, and an NVMe storage array, just get regular NVMe SSDs

[lunchboxthinks]

I would love to see you make a video on how to set up a NAS for a creator workflow

[markdalbey]

NASs are better than sliced bread in the right environment. Multi user, with file restrictions and a network are the environment that they are the most useful. I had a company with about 20 employees. This meant 10 computers and a network. I didn't want my warehouse manager be able to view my accountant's files. A NAS was the perfect solution for me. I had a stroke and now there is just me in an apartment. No multiple users, no warehouse manager, no accountant, and no network. A NAS would probably work, but I really don't need that much complication or expense to do the things that I need to do. There are less complicated and less expensive things that will do what I need done. NAS manufactures seem to be more and more marketing to people like me. If you need a NAS, they are great, but there seem to be a lot of people buying them that don't need them.

[chazsutherland]

I'd like to cast a vote toward you doing a video on how to set up an SSD NAS.

[nastynemesis]

id like to see a tutorial on how to set up and use a NAS drive please, , ,

[stevetech]

Nice review and showing how to use both 2.5GB ports!
I'm guessing you will get 1GB/sec speed when you get the 10GB port installed and operational. 🤔
Please provide an updated video if/when that happens and you get the SSDs working. 🏎

[Eleven.Eleven.]

Good video! My advice is to get synology 10gb onboard plus 2 nvme cache and also very reliable and user-friendly OS

[OledBurnInKing]

Finally a video about nas using ssds instead of spinning hard drives, I have 2 samsung 860 evo sata ssd on my synology since it has slots for 2 hard drives but I'm trying to get my synology set up with jbod instead of raid but when I try to select jbod as an option, it's greyed out and it won't let me choose jbod since I don't wanna use raid. I use my nas with 4k, blu ray and dvd iso formats when I ripped the discs. Plex does not support the iso format. I use kodi and vlc since both of them support iso video formats. I want a 1 to 1 pit perfect copy that's why I use iso format with hdr on all my 4k uhd discs since it retains all the meta data and files from the the discs including the menus and the extra features from the discs. There are no videos about anyone installing noctua pc fans on any of the nas to keep the nas as quiet as possible. It's overkill since noctua fans are meant for pcs but it matters if someone wants complete silence. If I had enough money saved up, I would use sabrent's highest capacity with there maxed out speeds since I need the high capacity and storage but I settled for the samsung 860 evo sata ssd since I had it since 2019 from my 4k hdr with 10 bit msi godlike motherboard/ home theater gaming pc and my gaming pc already has 3 samsung 970 evo plus nvme ssd.

[iamamish]

I seem to recall Linus @ LTT having a similar issue w/ SSDs and some type of RAID application. Good luck getting that sorted!

[okeyjay]

Yes please a how to set up a NAS tutorial would be much appreciated! Also great stuff you basically built my newest rig aha

[DeMoniserer]

Nice storage overall
But i see no port aggregation in network terms (bonding/teaming)
will be nice to see following in review: bandwidth and IO tests with all varieties with sata HDD/SSD and M.2 confugurations, linux mounts tests, data reduction and compression options.

[andrewm]

Or just buy 4TB drives that allow for the same write cycles and you have approx 1250-1400gig to work with daily. It’s all relative.

[itskrazyivanhere]

Nice - just cannot see myself going back to EXT4 - I've got an 8 Bay Synology 1817+ right now with BTRFS and its so damn good at checking for bitrot and other things I might just split my NAS requirements. Have one large HDD Storage with a smaller SSD/NVME NAS handling scratch/work things. The sooner high capacity SSDs appear the happier I will be.

[chadparsley]

Absolutely would like for you to do a NAS tutorial PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[exploremarketingllc]

So I got the Asustor Lockerstor 4 Gen2 AS6704T and edit a lot of high quality, large file 4K videos. What’s the best upgrades for this? Increase RAM to 16? Add a couple 4 TB NVME Cards? Add a 10 Gbe? Thanks for the input…it’s my first NAS, and I need more speed, back up, storage and network access when out of town…hence this NAS. I currently only have 2 Seagate IronWolf Pro 20TB Enterprises in it too. 👍🏽