Epilogue
The Asustor Nimbustor 4 Gen 2 AS5404T is a solid upgrade over its predecessor, with upgrades that bring the product up to date, enabling it to face the competition. The NVMe slots expand the device’s usability, making it virtually an eight-bay NAS, but with some caveats, such as the inability to combine the NVMe and standard SATA drives under the same volume. However, this is more than covered up by the ability to use NVMes as caching drives or storage drives.
The dual 2.5Gbit and three USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports provide excellent connectivity. The infrared receiver and the HDMI 2.0b port show that Asustor has considered the NAS’s media-centric use cases.
The OS is the only element that needs improvement, so someone might opt for a Synology or QNAP NAS. While ADM is capable across many fronts, it lacks some features that these companies provide, and once again, it is a bit strange having to use multiple applications to handle one device.
The main reason someone should consider the AS5404T is its hardware. In comparison, Synology has the slightly cheaper DiskStation DS224+ that uses the older Celeron J4125 processor, comes with only 2GB of RAM expandable to just 6GB, and has no M.2 Slot, only USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports and a single 1GbE LAN port.
In some cases, hardware performance is not the sole criterion for making decisions. For example, some may consider the newer Ugreen NAS series a better choice given its high-end hardware and low prices (e.g., the Ugreen DXP4800 Plus at a $389 early bird price), but its barebones software will certainly steer people away.
Lastly, depending on your storage needs and plans, the smaller Nimbustor 2 Gen 2 (AS5402T) is also a good alternative. It supports two instead of four SATA drives but costs less.
- Celeron keeps temperature and price down
- Low power consumption
- Silent operation (with an all SATA SSD setup)
- Up to 16 drive slots/bays with an optional expansion unit
- Four M.2 NVMe slots (PCIe Gen 3 x1)
- RAM can be upgraded to 16 GB
- Front USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port (with two more at the back)
- Two 2.5 Gbit Ethernet ports
- Quality power adapter and fan
- Lots of extra applications
- Short boot and re-start times
- 4K transcoding supported
- Competitive pricing
- 3-year warranty
- Extensive use of plastic in key components.
- The software doesn’t keep up with competitors.
- Mobile apps need improvement.
You’re complaining about software??? It’s based on Linux so go complain to them about their lil OS kit that still has only 1/3 to 1/2 of a complete GUI when we’re almost 1/4 of the way through the 21rst century. I use my NAS for storage, not computing, not transcoding, just storage since that’s what it was intended to do, even says so in the dam name, Netwok Attached Storage or did you forget that lil acronym? You seem really concerned about the piece of cardboard the product came in, maybe you should do cardboard reviews only, dedicating an entire page of your review to a piece of cardboard that surrounds the product is just stupid it has nothing to do with performance which is why I came not to browse some anime gallery. Needless to say not impressed with your lil article and won’t be returning just not worth it with that type of content.
Thanx for your comment. Any feedback is appreciated, but you are a bit over the edge, I think. By being ironic you don’t get anything. The reviewer added anything he believed it was worth to mention. If you dont like sth u could write it, in a formal way. It would have the same impact, believe me. Now, if u dont like the content, u are not obligated to stay or read anything in this site. There are countless other sites to visit, and might like your harsh comments as well, so feel free. I wish u the best.