Terramaster F8 SSD PLUS NAS Review

That would be perfect other than the price probably cost around $100 for Terramaster to assemble.

Perfect NAS for me. Quiet, quick and a small form factor!

I want one

I'm a total NAS noob, and wondering which of the two, this and the Asustor Flashstor 12, is more user-friendly for a total beginner. I don't understand a lot of the features mentioned on these reviews, so I thought I should just ask. My use case is storage and access of large (giant) files. I work in Unreal Engine, and those projects can range from 40-90 gigs each. I already own 4 4b m.2 ssds I've been using as externals in enclosures, but having everything spread out separate drives is making me crazy.

Regarding them using Virtualbox.... Why not.... It's reasonably popular.... it's mature
They are trying to developed their other software... so why bother reinventing the wheel.

So need a media nas to put my dvd on

Oh I do like this one. A nice bit of kit. Nearly has almost everything one could ask for. Might have to get one of these,…

This might be the nvme nas that checks enough of the boxes at a reasonable enough price point, that I finally pull the trigger!

Getting Terramaster F8 Plus.
Thought about buying Flashstor but gen1 has too weak CPU and gen2 (when released) will not have integrated graphics

Freaking ui designers... "Let's make all windows small and scrollable, so people have to scroll instead of using all of the screen real estate!"

If this just had a second LAN port I would have already bought one of these.

Could someone please help me understand why if Unraid says not to use ssd drives in the array (cache only) because trim breaks something, how do all these new 100% ssd NAS systems handle it?

Just great seeing new companies blowing some of these old school ones out the water. The NAS "gate keepers" now need to step up their game . Adjust your thinking or be left behind as we head into 4K becoming the standard . I'm just blown away with the new evolution .

I was leaning towards ugreen but now Terramaster 6-bay unit has my attention

will it run truenas?

Hi thanks for the review, very interesting.. Would you recommend this to edit video off?

With the 10Gb USB C port, can you add a JBOD enclosure with 4 or more spinning HDDs and raid them with the software they provide? Or do they just show as individual drives only?
I think this was a limitation of the Asustor, but I have not tried it recently.

So the price of Asus Flashstore is still better. I guess it will be down to that.

I need NAS help 😞 I want to buy a nas that transcode my huge 4k movies so at least 4 or 5 people remotely can watch my movies in 4k without any issues remotely ☹️please help 😣

Guys, does anyone know this Hiksemi brand?
I'm looking at some models, does anyone know which would be the best option, as the prices are very close.

Hiksemi Future X SSD, 2TB, Read 7450MB, Write 6750MB - (TBW: 3600 TB / 3.98W) - More robust heatsink
SSD Hiksemi Future X Lite, 2TB, Read 7100MB, Write 6350MB (TBW: 1500TB / 4.9W) - More robust heatsink
SSD Hiksemi Future, 2TB, Read 7450MB, Write 6750MB (TBW: 3600 TB / 3.98W)
Hiksemi Future SSD, 2TB, Read 7440MB, Write 6610MB (TBW: 1500TB / 6.7W)
SSD Hiksemi Future Eco, 2TB, Read 4850MB, Write 4450MB (TBW: 3600TB / 2.5W)

so now only to get affordable 16tb drives

Nice!

This is a great kit. I have the ugreen and it works great, but it is limited in bays. This will be a nice addition.

Damn.., can't seem to freeze the video so I can read the voucher T&C's :-(

Where to get it in the UK and is there a big difference in performance between the plus and non-plus versions?

Hello, I am a big fan of the channel and found it very helpful as well. Do you provide personal consulting services? How do I get in touch?

Too high idle power usage. No reason it should use this much when doing nothing.

Can the 10 gbps nic also do 5 and 2.5 gbps?

I've always steered clear of TerraMaster, as they always looks cheap.. but past 2 generations has been very appealing... this thing is a little larger that a WD Elements...

Good times for us with limited NAS requirements. 8x4TB is 32 TB - most people will not need more for their private stuff. And you don’t even need to buy the most expensive nvme’s out there.

I'd consider a TopCon NAS development board.
1xNVME slot onboard, split into 4 NVME slots, 2x2.5G plus EDIT no 10G ports, 1xM2 for WiFi, 2 SATA ports should you want to use them.
Around £190 plus taxes for the I3 version. Add RAM, a plastic project case and a brick power supply of your liking.

As per the plex list, this model is not very good for decoding 4k, how come ?🤔

Hi, it is an amazing NAS system. May I know the 10 GbE NIC model? is it a Intel NIC or AQC?

The Minisforum MS-01 with the i5 is $419 barebones. It comes with 3 NVME slots and a pcie expansion slot. I dunno about all of these products when that exists.

So that would be 550USD for NAS itself and then 8x8Tb ( each SSD is around 800, so 6400) for almost 7 grand in total.
You would really need to really need it for something to call it cost effective.

Big part of NASs solutions are software part ( like Synology, Asustor...). How is the situation here?

Man still living in 2007.. hehe

Heat vents on top is not a good idea. Any drop of liquid could pass through the vents and land directly on the mother board and instantly become trash.

Not worth it to me. Have a Terramaster D5 Thunderbolt 3 DAS with 5 HDDs. Faster access, much more storage, at less cost than this enclosure. If the price of SSDs comes down a LOT, then I can switch to them and get another big boost in speed, but until then price/performance wise the D5 TD3 is a much better deal. But I don't need a NAS, so it's not quite apples to apples.

I bought this NAS for my home movie collection to stream to my Apple TV. I am still unsure about the SSDs I should get for it. I'm thinking about the Samsung 990 Pro 4TB the WD Red SN700 4TB or the Crucial P3 Plus 4TB. Which one would you recommend for speed and especially durability?

Hi love the update, what's the best way to set terramaster for video editing?

If ssd prices had kept falling and sizes kept growing this would be a much better device. Right now the cheapest per GB nvme m.2 drives are the 2TB drives with 4TB a smidge behind them. 8 TB is twice the cost per GB. d

I've learned something from a TrueNAS forum post - this F8 SSD Plus has an interesting PCIe lane allocation. The bays on the CPU side of the board (bays 1-4) are not behind a PCIe switch, they are directly wired with 1x lane each. The bays on the RAM side of the board (bays 5-8) are wired behind a PCIe switch. TrueNAS seems to have problems when trying to create pools using the 5-8 bays. There's also some uncertain issue relating to VT-d; disabling this in the BIOS, disabling Secure Boot, and disabling the 'Boot TOS first' option are the only 3 changes needed to get TrueNAS SCALE 24.04

I've just finished installed TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 using a single NVME in the bay 5 slot for the OS, and then four 4TB Crucial P3 Plus NVMEs in the bay 1-4 slots, and it's working perfectly. Performance when copying data to SMB shares from my 10GbE Mac Mini are consistently around 800MB/sec up to 1.1GB/sec (connected via YuanLey 10GbE switch).

When I tried this same copy operation using the native TOS, I was getting long delays while macOS 'prepared to copy' and then awful, inconsistent performance around 60-300MB/sec.

Posting here in the hopes of helping others. Not sure if you can post linked in here, but the title of the TrueNAS forum article is "TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus - TrueNAS Install Log"

32gb of ram ??? The cpu (on Intels website) only supports 16 gb of ram 🤔🤔🤔
Have anyone tried to upgrade to 32gb ram ??

Does anyone know if NVMes with preinstalled heatsinks work? How thick can they be?

can i install on it torrent app and plex in addition to the existing nas app?

Could you please verify the functionality of connecting three computers to the Terramaster F8 SSD Plus by utilizing each of its USB ports?