The NAS for Everybody - Terramaster F4-424

Terramaster's F4-424 NAS promises a simple setup process for non-techie users, but also provides all the configuration options and functionality that more experienced users might want. Can it deliver?

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[SithTracy]

I got a 2-Bay version of this to run RAID-1 on (great deal on Amazon Prime day as my Synology is long in the tooth). TOS 5.1 is quite buggy compared to a robust DSM. I put TrueNAS on this past weekend with no issues. A bit of a learning curve there but should have it going in no time. Lots of great information out there on TrueNAS.

[fujinshu]

Hi, by the way, have you tried changing the OS to something like TrueNAS or UnRAID? Especially try UnRAID, it really is a better NAS OS than TOS.

[kaugurid]

£383.99 at amazon right now good price !

[JoeDezibel]

Hi, great video and great explanation, thank you. I have no clou about this stuff 🙂Can I use this for saving my Multimedia work and work on it from home over the internet?

[alliejr]

Interesting but it’s neither cheap enough nor user friendly enough for me to abandon my Synology which is about the same price and just as easy (easier I think) to start from scratch. The HDMI is a head-scratcher feature… it’s a home media server, not an Apple TV or Playstation replacement.

[makingwaves]

I came over this video after researching alternatives to Synology. It seems like Synology moves in a hostile direction. How would you compare Terramaster to Synology ... or all that Synology has offered the last ... 15 years?

[zerocks]

Disagree with the printer manual, almost no one will be setting this up in a vacuum without internet access, if you are then you should prepare for that scenario

[kicaj]

I'll tell you a story you wont read on Amazon, etc because they would most likely delete my story. It took my 3 days to realize: behind a great hardware for a price for NAS stands full of flaws TOS 6.X and all its embeeded apps. Copying the 3TB to external drive - failed without clear log stating whats going on. Trying to backup my 350GB OneDrive stucks (fails) in the middle with no clear log on whats going on and possibility to restart it. Survivelance does not work while it worked flawlessly on my previous NAS. Flaws, flaws, flaws even on the level of pure copy of the data to external hdd or running things in parallel. Thus, unless you unraid it (but thats additional cost unless you bought (or download) a license for it) this is extremely unrealiable piece of hardware/software. Shame for Terramaster to deliver such product with so many flaws in their software. Risk of getting your data lost is incredible.