All-flash NAS fight: DIY or Buy – Round III!

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Special thanks to both ASUSTOR and Silvertip Labs for sending these NAS storage servers to test! I purchased the drives used in the video, though the two Seagate IronWolf NVMe drives I put into my older NAS were provided by Seagate. Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBccak8f-VY Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3jwQzb46Zc Here are things I mentioned in this video (some links are Amazon affiliate links): - ASUSTOR AS-T10G3 Dual M.2 + 10 GbE card: https://amzn.to/3D1DUpV - TeamGroup M.2 SATA 1TB SSD (for Pocket NAS): https://amzn.to/3D3FJTl - TeamGroup M.2 NVMe 1TB SSD (for Flashstor): https://amzn.to/3PPySV0 - ASUSTOR Flashstor 12 Pro: https://amzn.to/3NIfQxh - SilverTip Labs' PocketNAS questionnaire: https://rpgtavern.live/index.php?page=mininas - Setting up OMV on the Rock 5 model B: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/building-tiny-6-drive-m2-nas-rock-5-model-b - Installing TrueNAS on the ASUSTOR: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/how-i-installed-truenas-on-my-new-asustor-nas Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Merch: https://redshirtjeff.com 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GeerlingEngineering #ASUSTOR #NAS #homelab Contents: 00:00 - Flash-off and new plans 00:39 - The contenders: Flashstor and Pocket NAS 01:28 - Pocket NAS: Rock 5 model B and OMV 04:51 - Flashstor 12 Pro: Intel and ADM 07:11 - PCIe is the bottleneck 08:11 - Read speeds good enough for video editing 09:28 - The best feature: TrueNAS? 11:11 - The victor 11:59 - A glimpse of the future