Replacement for AS5102T

[hkymre]

I’m thinking of replacing my 10 year old as5102T with a AS6804T

Current use is music streaming, photo backups & 2 CCTV cameras using surveillance centre
I’m probably going to add document backups & maybe use Plex for video as well

I’m looking at 4 x WD red pro hdd in raid5 for the cctv files
Is there anything to be gained from using NVMe as well?

[snapshot]

The AS6804T is a great NAS but very expensive. What do you believe this will give you over the AS6704T at half the cost. If it's the faster network speed then note that the AS6704T V2 with 5Gbps Ethernet is due out very soon.

I use NVMe drives as my boot volume and active storage. This gets mirrored to the HDDs every night. Backups go straight to HDD. For my use and, I think, yours using the NVMe as cache will probably not gain much.

[hkymre]

The AS6804T is a great NAS but very expensive. What do you believe this will give you over the AS6704T at half the cost. If it's the faster network speed then note that the AS6704T V2 with 5Gbps Ethernet is due out very soon.

I use NVMe drives as my boot volume and active storage. This gets mirrored to the HDDs every night. Backups go straight to HDD. For my use and, I think, yours using the NVMe as cache will probably not gain much.

I think it’s the shiny new thing that appealed with the AS6804T, but I’ll have a look at the as6704t
And thanks for explaining your setup, that sounds like a plan

[hkymre]

I’ve just discovered 2 new boxes that were announced last week - https://www.asustor.com/en-gb/news/news_detail?id=35272

Odd that the official forum hasn’t announced their arrival yet, but the spec & price looks like a better fit for my needs

[snapshot]

I got an email about them. I really expected the new AS67xx V2 models to be released before these two as they have lower internal model numbers but what do I know?.

[hkymre]

It’s never simple is it?

It appears there was a press release for the AS67xx V2+a couple of days ago. Asustor on Facebook gives the link https://www.asustor.com/product?p_id=94 but that doesn’t appear to be correct.

Edit - found it!
link is https://www.asustor.com/en/product?p_id=94

[snapshot]

Well found. Changing the 94 to 95 will give the AS6704T V2 and to 96 will give the AS6706T. Unfortunately, virtually the whole thing is just a cut-and-paste of the original release from 3.5 years ago and boasting about PCIe 3 then was unimpressive; now it's just embarrassing. There's also still the 'inaccuracy' about the PCIe slot being standard. Yes, it is but the back panel isn't so we're still limited to proprietary expansion cards.

[hkymre]

Everything just looks half-arsed.

The forum has spam issues & doesn’t mention new kit
Broken links & poor press releases don’t help

I’ll probably take my business elsewhere