5402T

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