Tiny 10GbE All-SSD NAS Sports Up to 64TB

The TerraMaster F8-SSD Plus is the company's new all-SSD NAS. With 8x M.2 SSDs and 10Gbase-T this is a small and quiet 10GbE NAS. Unlike previous generations, this sports a new 8-core processor.

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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
04:45 Internal Hardware Overview
01:57 External Hardware Overview
10:34 Setup, TOS 6, and TRAID
14:55 Performance, Power, and Noise
16:49 Key Lessons Learned

[rael_gc]

They told you they've dropped the price only to get the mention in the video. Checking the price now it's $799.

[redtails]

you mentioned the low noise floor, I think what a lot of folks are forgetting is just how loud harddrives are. My toshiba MG08 helium drives are so loud you couldn't sleep in the same room when they're active lol

[DAVIDLIFUHUANG]

I've worked as a NAS QA before, so I have some ideas about structural design. First, for a NAS at this price, the SSD heatsink fixing mechanism is designed to use a material that is sure to age and break. This is very strange for a product at this price. ASUS products at the same price can quickly install SSDs. The second point is the issue of SSD arrangement design. The SSD heat sink will increase the weight and the center of gravity of the device. Why are the SSD and heat sink not staggered on both sides of the motherboard near the cooling fan. The third point is that considering the heat dissipation and installation issues of SSDs, I think it would be better to put eight SSDs on the same side and make a large heat sink and a cooling fan for direct heat dissipation. The other side is the CPU RAM IO PORT. The disadvantage of this is that the fuselage will become longer, and perhaps a horizontal fuselage design would be better. But judging from the current mechanical design, the only difference between a NAS at this price and a Chinese small host is the 10Gb NIC, right? This content was converted from Chinese to English with the help of Google Translate.

[marcogenovesi]

8:20 rubber bands are usually bad to keep the heatsink in place, real silicone rubber is expensive and in most cases they use cheaper stuff that will dry out and break in a relatively short time (years). You are nearly always better off using zip ties. They are cheap and will last forever

[MikeButash]

You'd think by now Intel or AMD (or Arm) would have a CPU with a LOT more PCIe lanes for these sorts of small m.2 nas devices to better over-subscription and reduce the need for PCIe switches. Particularly when doing raid, I can imagine the switches are saturating buffers, same as an ethernet network would if you had a bunch of line-rate devices all communicating over a single shared uplink.

I'd be curious if any of these PCIe switches have buffer drop statistics to see what performance is being left behind, again as you would an ethernet network.

[DrivingWithJake]

Those elastics also break and fall apart so quickly in the data center. To the point we never even put them on.

[RonLeedy]

I don't understand why mfg go cheap on the power connector. They should use a bayonet connector like the Switchcraft 761KS15. Just a few mm larger in diameter but able to screw lock on to the case.

[DarkfireTS]

Hi Patrick - great video, it helped me decide to get this F8 SSD Plus. You mentioned the slow RAID sync times; there's a setting in the TOS 6.0 interface, under Storage Pool settings (gear icon top right) where you can set a custom speed. I set the minimum to 512MB/sec and the max to 800MB/sec, and after logging in via SSH and running watch "cat /proc/mdstat" was able to see this running at 800MB/sec!

[vitaliypro]

I love how quickly you got to the price point of the setup👍🏼

[markaphillips]

I really want to see someone take some older u.2 server drives and build a NAS with a desktop cpu and real performance. I feel like the cost doesn’t match performance on all these small m.2 NAS

[lllongreen]

1) NO ECC 2) not 10gig NIC but in fact 8gbit 3) low per nvme ssd lane allocation 4) high price = DEFINITELY NO BUY

[criostasis]

No way at $699. Im waiting for minisforum to do another intel board with 6 m.2 slots. They supposedly have a breakout board for their current one being worked on so if that comes out id go with that. Yeah itll cost a little more id have to get a mini itx case and itll be a bit bigger but itll have way more power than this.

[jgdudex]

The N305 seems a bit under powered with regards to PCIe bandwidth. Still a good device

[aaronkoch]

is it possible to roll your own OS on this? would be awesome with TrueNAS Scale on it..

[magfal]

3:20, it should list an amperage beside the port as well.

[tobyxgern]

Been subscribed for a while and ended up joining to support the channel. Appreciate your in depth reviews/comparisons of the products you present!

[icxf]

Put the thermal pad on the bottom of the heat sink first. It is much easier.

[ScottGrammer]

9:20 ONE PCIE lane (Gen 3) for a 10Gb/s ethernet port? Nope.

A single PCIE 3 lane only supports 8Gb/s, and so you'll NEVER saturate that 10Gb/s ethernet port.

[alexandergross]

but does it run crysis?
ohh wait im in the wrong decade

but can you install truenas on it, or even proxmox?

[g.s.]

the terramaster OS "... is OK..." you are too polite .... ahahahah