Thank you for this incredibly information packed summary. I will be setting up my first NAS (Terramaster F2-422) next weekend, when the drives arrive. I consider myself to have a good grasp of general computing and network functions and processes. Having said that, due to the sheer speed at which this video tries to cover every conceivable part of the software, I’m going to have to watch it several times. Also for a beginner video, the assumed knowledge of acronyms and other jargon is extremely high, leaving me quite lost on several occasions. I appreciate the work that must go into these videos, and thank you for that. But by way of feedback, this is incredibly overwhelming.
Having read some of the TerraMaster forums over the TOS5 update I think I'll be skipping on this one and going after an Asustor Lockerstor 4 Gen 2 instead. And this morning I just ordered the Asustor. Looking forward to having 2 separate RAID 1 setups and so on.
What do you think of TerraMaster T6-423 as a Plex Server ? In America it’s $699 way lower cost than synology or Qnap. Let us know thanks again, keep up the great work!!
For the price, hardware, and lack of hardware restrictions... Terramaster might end up being the easier sell over Synology. Depends on stuff like available memory, expandability, ECC or not, nvme cache or not. Might check back in on TM down the line if I don't like my unraid adventures.
Is it just me or does it seem like Terramaster is doing “Synology” better than Synology? TOS seems a lot like the best parts of DSM without as much of the weird quirks DSM has picked up over the years. And the hardware generally costs less. I realize there might not be quite as much polish here overall, but I’d consider this over Synology for my next NAS just for having AI object recognition in photos (c’mon Synology Photos!) And I prefer the overall aesthetic and colour scheme of TOS over DSM. The grey accenting is preferable over everything being blindingly white.
I kind of disagree with the Point of the Multimedia Software. I think the NAS-producers should stop developing their own Multimedia-Software. Why is this? First of all it is not their key competence but an unwanted step-child. For example the "best software NAS" Synology. The Android App for the Video Station is updated about/less than once a year followed by a second fix release. And it is not a rock stable App having tons of features. And the NAS-specific software misses the Plugins/addons of a/the community. They have no chance to get as good as multimedia apps like Emby, KODi, Plex or Jellyfin. I think it would be better if the NAS-producers would look out for a good open source Multimedia Software and contribute. They should implement a good integration in the NAS system. That would be a better choice. Just my opinion.
Absolutely. Leave multimedia to Plex/Emby/whoever whose sole purpose is building a slick media server with well supported clients. The last thing I want or need is yet another clunky multimedia server hiding somewhere on my network relying on possibly badly implemented, never updated, DLNA clients on devices like TV's.
Hated it, not a improvement. Went back to the old version. Had nothing but issues. Of course Tetramaster blamed me not Thier OS. Maybe try it later when it's been fixed.
Thank you for this incredibly information packed summary. I will be setting up my first NAS (Terramaster F2-422) next weekend, when the drives arrive. I consider myself to have a good grasp of general computing and network functions and processes. Having said that, due to the sheer speed at which this video tries to cover every conceivable part of the software, I’m going to have to watch it several times. Also for a beginner video, the assumed knowledge of acronyms and other jargon is extremely high, leaving me quite lost on several occasions. I appreciate the work that must go into these videos, and thank you for that. But by way of feedback, this is incredibly overwhelming.
This is now on my F5-221 and it is pretty good. That TRAID is fantastic!
JEEEEZ!
I am only liking and commenting to defeat the TH-cam algorithms. I am not the target audience for the Terramasster.
great review.
was very excited about TRAID but disappointed in how incredibly SLOW it is to create, did you notice this in any testing?
Having read some of the TerraMaster forums over the TOS5 update I think I'll be skipping on this one and going after an Asustor Lockerstor 4 Gen 2 instead. And this morning I just ordered the Asustor. Looking forward to having 2 separate RAID 1 setups and so on.
Does TOS5 support NTFS in terms of external USB 14TB HDD connection?
Got a F4-423 for only 400€ on prime day, cant wait to set it up, it sounds like a holy grail for plex by price/performance/energy consumption
I forward to see Firewall review TOS 5 but i don't see deep review for this. Please make it more deep for this future next time.
Bedankt
Thanks bud!
What do you think of TerraMaster T6-423 as a Plex Server ? In America it’s $699 way lower cost than synology or Qnap. Let us know thanks again, keep up the great work!!
Were the trash can ??? Please. On tos 4 there was
hello sir how are you i have a qnap ts-53b but i feel the device is very slow and the system is slow
For the price, hardware, and lack of hardware restrictions... Terramaster might end up being the easier sell over Synology. Depends on stuff like available memory, expandability, ECC or not, nvme cache or not. Might check back in on TM down the line if I don't like my unraid adventures.
Not happening with that software
Where is dedup?
"De-duplication"
Is it just me or does it seem like Terramaster is doing “Synology” better than Synology? TOS seems a lot like the best parts of DSM without as much of the weird quirks DSM has picked up over the years. And the hardware generally costs less. I realize there might not be quite as much polish here overall, but I’d consider this over Synology for my next NAS just for having AI object recognition in photos (c’mon Synology Photos!) And I prefer the overall aesthetic and colour scheme of TOS over DSM. The grey accenting is preferable over everything being blindingly white.
I kind of disagree with the Point of the Multimedia Software. I think the NAS-producers should stop developing their own Multimedia-Software. Why is this? First of all it is not their key competence but an unwanted step-child. For example the "best software NAS" Synology. The Android App for the Video Station is updated about/less than once a year followed by a second fix release. And it is not a rock stable App having tons of features. And the NAS-specific software misses the Plugins/addons of a/the community. They have no chance to get as good as multimedia apps like Emby, KODi, Plex or Jellyfin. I think it would be better if the NAS-producers would look out for a good open source Multimedia Software and contribute. They should implement a good integration in the NAS system. That would be a better choice. Just my opinion.
Absolutely. Leave multimedia to Plex/Emby/whoever whose sole purpose is building a slick media server with well supported clients. The last thing I want or need is yet another clunky multimedia server hiding somewhere on my network relying on possibly badly implemented, never updated, DLNA clients on devices like TV's.
Hated it, not a improvement. Went back to the old version. Had nothing but issues. Of course Tetramaster blamed me not Thier OS. Maybe try it later when it's been fixed.
With all the QNAP exploits lately, Terramaster creating a way to remotely access the server is a hard pass.
Wow, that sounds total surveillance by terramaster. That is a double no, no. So terramaster is only an option with any other NAS software. Sad.
So basically a Linux OS lol
Please don't spin the mouse pointer like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!