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I chose ASUSTOR mainly because of the price, the features, and the hardware compatibility. What I needed was a NAS that could back up all my devices, run scheduled backups to other storage, share folders across my home network, and host applications and services in Docker containers. ASUSTOR checked

For your use case, I don't think you need a very powerful NAS. Since your main goal is to stream a 260 GB music library, a single-bay model with an SSD would be more than enough. An SSD will also make the NAS completely silent (apart from the fan) and more responsive. If you're looking at ASUSTOR, I

Nice comparison and thanks for sharing the methodology. Using a normalized price and a CPU/value metric is a good way to start the discussion. That said, I think the comparison would be even more useful if it also included ASUSTOR. While you intentionally excluded the more established NAS vendors, A

So which NAS did you finally go for?I'm in a similar situation, to choose between AS5402T vs UGREENDXP2800 vs Synology DS725+ Ive never used a NAS at all, & this is my first NAS setup.Im looking at a 2 bay NAS, mainly for Plex movies and streaming my FLACs from the NAS to Volumio network players. I

I can't say for sure, because I didn't know that my NAS had upgraded itself automatically to this new version last week, but for the past few days I have noticed that the SMB share icon to my Asustor 5402T NAS on my MacOS (Sequoia 15.6.1) stays there even though my Mac goes to sleep or the SMB share

The cheapest on Amazon is a 3304T, but the 5402T for an additional $30 not only has more RAM, but more importantly a lot more CPU, so I would go for that one. Oh wait, I did go for that one...twice already. I've upgraded the RAM to 32GB and added 2 1TB SSD's in each. I added a Xpanstor 4 AS5004U, 4