Review on 🖥️ Asustor AS5202T - High Performance 2 Bay NAS with 2.5GbE Ports, 2GB DDR4 RAM, Gaming NAS for Personal Cloud (Diskless) by Mark Tarnowski

After about 3 weeks of research, I settled on the Asustor AS5304T NAS for its features and flexibility. I was looking for a replacement for our aging HP Home Server where we store all our media for home distribution to various iOS and Windows devices. The AS5305T even handles 4k for an OLED TV and makes a great backup for PCs and laptops. PROS: Easy to set up - Feature rich with many applications - Can work with both SSDs and HDDs, but you lose a drive slot if you want SSD caching - Looks great with the rest of the hardware - 2.5Gb Ethernet and USB 3 ports. x looking to the future - expandable memory up to 8GB - lots of tips and online documentation (Asustor College) online to help with setup and personalization - stays cool with large quiet fan - very good value for money relationship when selling. CONS: There is NO way to contact support directly via chat or phone - you have to make a support request and wait as long as you like for them to reply (usually they direct you to previous FAQs and online docs ). If Asus wants to play in this league, it MUST step up its support game and have live (easy to understand) US support. - NOISY housing and all plastic disc trays that transmit the sound of even a small disc into the room. I put this NAS on a foam base just to keep the noise down. TIPS. To get the best speed and responsiveness for various applications (PLEX and others), I installed a 1TB SSD in bay #1 first, and then installed all software, applications (and commonly used media files) on the SSD before I installed additional hard drives. hard drives. The NAS is very fast and I didn't have to lose a drive bay to install an additional SSD caching drive.