In this video I’m reviewing one of the MOST potential NAS units out there the ASUSTOR Lockerstor Gen 3… But while reviewing it, I discovered there’s some issues that you need to know!
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0:00 Intro
0:53 different versions on Gen 3
1:25 70Gb/s Connectivity
2:00 HDD bays
2:50 Intel is fired
3:25 Opening it up…
4:41 Testing setup
5:15 Discovering an issue
6:29 Future Promise of USB4
7:25 Should you buy it?
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36 comments
I feel dumber for having watched this. Who buys a NAS to use as a USB hard drive?
How many PCI-E lanes does it take to drive SATA bays? Seems like they missed an opportunity to make the NVMEs at least two lanes each on the four bay version, maybe also the six bay, which have six or four fewer SATA than the ten bay?
IF the USB4 networking, or Thunderbolt (are these the same thing?), worked this would be very attractive for the new Mac mini. We could have ultra fast data from the NAS SSDs on the Mac mini, backup to spinning disks, the same data available for other devices on the local network, and it would still all cost less than buying SSD expansion from Apple!
Alternatively, I am wondering if one can connect a 10GB Mac mini ethernet port directly to one of the 10GB ports on the NAS and one of the other NAS ports to the local network that has an Internet connection. If you do this, will the NAS route traffic through giving the Mac mini an internet connection?
but can it run proxmox
Waiting for arc b580 review for PR and da Vinci
$1800 Canadian!! for a 4 bay OUCH!! crazy pricing!
I am kinda confused. Are you recommending to opt for the previous generation simply because the USB4 ports don't have network drivers? There are two 5 and two 10 gig ethernet ports that all work, correct? For someone looking at this device, who I assume is not interested in building their own, wouldn't those 4 ports be enough connectivity?
It seems to be a very powerful machine, but in terms of software and tools, which brand would you recommend as the best?
such an ugly case design ..
i will never buy an amd nas … i go intel for the transcoding … but you have to buy things for what your using it for. plex videostream intel is better… pure data you can use whatever you like in your budget
Amazing!
Interesting product. Good to see an AMD SoC is used as I have two older NAS units that were compromised by Intel errata that could result in bricking the device. There is a lot to like. However, not loving that there is no open PCIe slot for upgrades.
better yet. buy a base M4 Mac mini but get the $100 10 gig ethernet port option. buy a bunch of 16 gb external TB4 drives and you have a nice small NAS that only uses 8 watts of electric out of the outlet.
plz make a productivity review on b580 gpu bro.
lots of money for what you get. you could buy a full tower case NAS cheaper. metal. no cheap plastic. half the price of this model.
YouTube hardware reviewers are constantly harp toolless drive bays, because unlike a normal consumers they are constantly swapping drives!
The rest of us install drives and only worry about replacing them 5-10 years later when they fail, so toolless drive bays don't matter one iotas to most of us.
BTW, compared to Robbie from NASCompares, the rest of us are simply not worthy. 😂
So because there's no intel quicksync, we can't effectively use this as a plex storage server? Additionally, usb 4 for HDD's – that's a bit of a waste in throughput 😉
No Thunderbolt 5 networking? Pass
Why didn't you just use the various ethernet ports to complete the review instead of giving up because USB4 can't yet network?
Does it have a iGPU? The Snyology ones dont and makes them pretty poor with Plex.
but it's more of a gadget that the pros use and won't buy, they'll find it a waste of money, maybe in the future, otherwise, happy new year
Just bond the (2) 10 GbE ports. Using USB4 or Thunderbolt to "network" leaves you with a very short tether. I used to use my QNAP with TB3 direct attached to a single Mac, but 10 Gbe for the network (and then a pcie upgrade to 25 Gbps.
Same story with the USB4 connectivity of the new Flashstor devices – actually pretty disappointed that they released it without a driver.. I wonder if Rob happened to have a working driver on his machine because he’s tested something else that property implemented IP over USB4?
What the Heck, USB 4 NO GO, whaaaaa 😖. I just tested 7 24TB ironwolfe pro drives…. 6 days and now what the heck am I gonna install them into. Let's get a tutorial to install FreeNAS on this with no igpu. C'mon Asustor WTF. 😮
Sweet Video! Review of the Asustor Flashtor 12 PRO sometime?
We can get you some screw driver training. 😮
Guess this isn't going to be great for plex server.
Great device
Excellent video Lauri. Thanks for this.
Too bad about that USB C driver. All other issues aside it loooked like a fantastic piece of kit.
We'll see.
Thunderbold 4.0 with MAC OSX is not supportet yet as ASUStore … what an disappointment
What was the purpose of the USB4 in the first place, if not for connection? Charging lol
Happy Nee Year Lauri and team.
for some reason it feels cheap quality in the video relative to its price, I have DS920+ and I want to upgrade but I also noticed the price difference, can you give a long term user review on this later on next year?
My zimacube arrives today. I got the 64gb ram and had the 20% coupon. $1k for the pro. I am hopeful that I made the right decision
Thank you Tech Notice for taking a look at our Lockerstor Gen3! We here at Asustor love hearing your comments, questions, praise and polite criticism! Feel free to send a message and I will reply to you next year! Happy New Year!
And yes. We are working very hard to have our partners at AMD deliver us drivers to enable USB4 networking. We know for some, this is a very important feature and we are working hard with AMD to get it going!
amazing love you lauri sir
Im going to need a good NAS, thanks for the good info, as always.
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