AS5404T

I recently purchased the ASUSTOR AS5404T and I'm very happy with it so far. I have the four bays filled (4x16TB) and one of the four SSD slots filled. The App Store (App Central) has a lot of apps in it, such as Jellyfin, and so on that give you one-click installs (using Docker). I have been impress

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

Honestly, it's a pre-built NAS (ASUSTOR AS5404T) I did look a building a custom NAS, but it's hard to get close to 4 SATA Drives & 4 M.2 drives in a tidy enclosure for anything close to the same price point. (Even looking at a jonsbo N2 with the same CPU ended up costing more).