TerraMaster F5-422

The TerraMaster F5-422 is a five-bay NAS drive that offers many business-friendly features including a speedy 10GbE LAN port, link aggregation, and a fistful of RAID options.

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Product details

  • POWERFUL HARDWARE: the F5-422 NAS storage is equipped with Apollo J3455 Quad-core 1.5GHz CPU, 4GB of RAM (expandable up to 8GB).
  • The F5-422 is a 10GbE NAS which adopts 1x10GbE RJ45 port to achieve a blazingly fast speed of 670MB/s reading and 650MB/s writing. Dual 1GbE LAN with failover and Link Aggregation support.
  • The NAS sever is powered by AES hardware encryption engine to encrypt shared folders and network data transmission to keep data from unauthorized access.
  • The 5 bay NAS supports advanced Btrfs file system, offering 71,680 system-wide snapshots and 1,024 snapshots per shared folder; it can serve as a great media server or plex server by real-time hardware transcoding of up to two concurrent 4K video streaming.
  • The network attached storage features an aluminum-alloy shell and intelligent temperature control ultra-quiet fan, good in heat dissipation. Maximum Internal Raw Capacity: 100 TB (20 TB drive x 5). Compatible with 3.5" and 2.5" SATA HDD, 2.5" SATA SSD. For better and stable performance, please use dedicated NAS hard drives.

PROS

+ Easy installation.
+ Quiet operation.
+ Solid performance.
+ 10Gbps Ethernet port.
+ Link aggregation.
+ Lots of RAID options.

CONS

- Limited app library.
- Requires tools.
- Drives not included.

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By PCMag on February 25, 2020
The TerraMaster F5-422 is a five-bay NAS drive that offers many business-friendly features including a speedy 10GbE LAN port, link aggregation, and a fistful of RAID options.
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