AS5402T: use NVMe SSDs for storage?

[stefanb2]

Hi there,

It's time to upgrade my old NAS from 2013 and my main criteria is that it should be as quiet as possible and relatively compact size. I'm thinking of buying AS5402T and using 2.5 inch SSDs to keep the noise down. Can I also use the M.2 NVMe slots for storage or is it only for caching?

Thanks

[father.mande]

Hi,

Hi there,
It's time to upgrade my old NAS from 2013 and my main criteria is that it should be as quiet as possible and relatively compact size. I'm thinking of buying AS5402T and using 2.5 inch SSDs to keep the noise down. Can I also use the M.2 NVMe slots for storage or is it only for caching?
Thanks

I don't know for AS54 ... but on my AS66 ... I used as Raid1 2 SSD as first volume ... and HDD as second volume
Just take care to use SSD M2 validate for NAS (ex. firecuda 530, etc.)

Philippe.

[izgimmer]

Hi there,

It's time to upgrade my old NAS from 2013 and my main criteria is that it should be as quiet as possible and relatively compact size. I'm thinking of buying AS5402T and using 2.5 inch SSDs to keep the noise down. Can I also use the M.2 NVMe slots for storage or is it only for caching?

Thanks

I have an AS5402T with two TEAMGROUP MP34 4TB (TM8FP4004T) in RAID1 as main partition. I am using the 3.5" slots for MyArchive HDDs and will probably use the two additional NVMe slots for storage in the future. It's incredibly fast and either my wifi connection or the connected computers themselves or the MyArchive Ironwolfs (~210 MB/s) are the bottleneck in terms of speed. They could also be used for caching but I don't think with my setup (or any personal use case) it is worth using the bays or the money for the NVMes.

But as you said that you want a quiet NAS did you think of using the FLASHSTOR models? My experience with the AS5402T in terms of noise was quite underwhelming. It I had the same idea: Using only flash storage to have a quite NAS. What I didn't count on was the system fan which is extermely loud (and then also faulty) in my case. I didn't load any 3.5 HDD first which resulted in resonance. With 3.5 drives it is better. In my case, the fan also started to make rumbling sounds and I received a new one by ASUSTOR as part of the guarantee (Thanks!) which is much better but still not noiseless. I am thinking of buying another (really noiseless) fan after the guarantee period.

[snapshot]

Hi there,

It's time to upgrade my old NAS from 2013 and my main criteria is that it should be as quiet as possible and relatively compact size. I'm thinking of buying AS5402T and using 2.5 inch SSDs to keep the noise down. Can I also use the M.2 NVMe slots for storage or is it only for caching?

Thanks

I have two Lexar 4TB NM790 in RAID1 as Volume1 in my AS6706T and the HDDs very rarely spin up unless they're actually accessed.
A potential problem with using M.2 for storage is that they're not hot-swappable so the NAS has to be powered down if one needs changing. Other than that, they're great. I actually saw a sustained 10Gb/s copying from the M.2 drives to a PCIe4 M.2 drive in my main PC.