AS5402T HDD and NVME

[Pitakas]

Hello.
I'm new to Asustor. I just bought AS5402T. I haven't bought HDD or NVME yet.
I was looking at compatibility and for the AS 54 there are very few options.
Thank you for helping me equip my AS5402T. Which 8TB or 10TB disks do you recommend and which NVME for cache and what capacity?
Thanks

[father.mande]

Hi,

Have a look to compatibility list ... even other hardware can works ... but it's a good base ...
https://www.asustor.com/en-gb/services/compatibility

Philippe.

[snapshot]

My personal choice is WD Red SN700 NVMe and 1TB for cache is probably enough for your chosen disk sizes. I would have two in RAID1 as Volume1 and another two for cache.
Again, my personal choices for HDD are WD Red Plus and Seagate Ironwolf; whichever you can find for the better price.

The compatibility list only shows what's been tested for that model. It's hard to imagine how standard NVMe and SATA HDD drives would not work but my choices are those designed to work in NAS.

[Tonv]

My personal opinion: pick any disk you like and don't worry about the compatibiity list. From experience I've used all sorts of disk in Netgear and Asustore NAS devices and have never encountered issues.
About NVMw cache: make sure you really want/need this, I chose to skip the caching and have 2 dedicated NVMe disks, one for the OS and apps, so the HDDs can continue to sleep, and one for my music, so I don't have to wait for a disk to spin up.
I don't mirror the NVMe's, assuming they are more reliable than HDDs and of course I do make a (cloud) backup of my essential data!

but of course you need to make your own choices!