Ryzen up to the challenge!

Speeds keep Ryzen and Ryzen!

The Lockerstor Gen3 series is ASUSTOR’s fastest NAS ever! The combination of AMD’s Ryzen Embedded SoC, M.2 SSDs using PCIe 4.0, USB4, and dual 10GbE to ensure everything you want to do with your NAS is nothing short of extremely fast. With four M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs and up to ten bays for HDDs, the Lockerstor Gen3 series ensure that you get the best of both speed and capacity.

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Ryzen Up to the Challenge!

High-Performance CPU: Equipped with the AMD Ryzen V3000 Embedded processor, delivering efficient, server-grade performance for demanding tasks.
ECC DDR5 Memory: Includes 16GB of ECC DDR5 memory (expandable to 64GB), ensuring data integrity and reliability.
Comprehensive Connectivity: Dual 10GbE and dual 5GbE ports, along with two USB4 ports, provide a combined bandwidth of up to 30 Gbps for versatile network setups.
Advanced Data Protection: Offers RAID 5 and RAID 6 options for HDDs and NVMe drives, with hot-swappable capabilities and Btrfs support for snapshots.
USB4/Thunderbolt 4 Over IP: Supports direct connection to Mac and Windows systems via USB4 for fast data transfers and point-to-point editing.
Robust Build Quality: Sturdy metal chassis with minimal noise, even during heavy operations, and excellent heat dissipation with a copper heat pipe.
ADM 5 Software: Reliable, secure OS with essential features like snapshots, remote access, and simplified setup; supports third-party OS installations.
Efficient Power Consumption: Peaks at around 50W under heavy load, efficient for the system’s performance class.
Front LCD Display: The configurable LCD panel allows direct monitoring and setup, a handy feature for easy system management.
Excellent for Multi-User Environments: Multi-channel network support and high bandwidth make it ideal for collaborative, multi-client setups.

The Lockerstor Gen3 is equipped with two high-speed USB4 ports, offering ultra-fast speeds of up to 40 Gbps. The USB4 ports are compatible with Thunderbolt 3/4 devices, allowing you to transfer, store, archive, and back up faster than ever.
When connecting two ASUSTOR NAS units using the USB4 ports, fast data transfers, synchronizations, and backups can be achieved without using the network ports. Paired with features like DataSync Center and SMB Backup, this can help significantly reduce back up time.

Asustor AS6804T Lockerstor 4 Gen 3 NAS Review – 10GbE and TB4/USB4 Tests

For testing, I used a high-performance machine—the Minisforum MS-01, which is a compact powerhouse equipped with an Intel i9 13th Gen CPU, 32GB DDR5 memory, dual 10GbE ports, and a USB-C Thunderbolt 4 port, all running on Windows 10 Pro. This setup provided the perfect testbed to push the Lockerstor Gen 3 NAS to its limits, particularly in testing multiple high-speed connections concurrently. The MS-01’s CPU and memory configuration ensured it could handle large data transfers over multiple network connections without bottlenecking, giving a clear view of the NAS’s true capabilities, especially with simultaneous 10GbE and Thunderbolt 4 testing.

The Lockerstor Gen 3 delivered strong performance over its four-bay HDD RAID 5 setup using a single 10GbE connection. Using 4TB Seagate IronWolf drives in RAID 5, the NAS managed sustained read and write speeds averaging between 500 and 600 MB/s, which is impressive for a mechanical hard drive array. Running AJA system tests with these drives over the 10GbE network connection, the Lockerstor Gen 3 showcased stable, consistent performance with no visible drops or latency issues during transfer, demonstrating the robust bandwidth of its 10GbE ports and efficient RAID management for handling large file workloads.

Switching to an NVMe RAID 0 setup, I populated the NAS’s M.2 Gen 4 slots with NVMe SSDs and connected the setup over dual 10GbE ports with SMB Multichannel enabled. This RAID 0 configuration unleashed significant performance gains, achieving impressive speeds of around 2 to 2.5 GB/s. With CrystalDiskMark, I observed full network saturation with this setup, and the read/write rates consistently held near the theoretical maximum bandwidth for dual 10GbE connections. AJA tests reaffirmed this, maintaining strong performance metrics with little to no latency over these NVMe drives, a perfect setup for users needing rapid access to data or working on large-scale data-intensive projects.

To explore the performance over USB4, I connected one of the NAS’s USB4 ports to the Minisforum MS-01 through Thunderbolt 4 over IP. Running the NVMe RAID 0 setup over this single USB4 connection, I achieved speeds between 1.4 and 1.6 GB/s in AJA disk tests, while CrystalDiskMark demonstrated stable read and write throughput, effectively capitalizing on USB4’s bandwidth capabilities. This connection is an attractive option for those needing high-speed direct access to the NAS without relying solely on traditional Ethernet, especially for workflows like video editing where the faster Thunderbolt 4 protocol can bypass the limits of a single 10GbE link.

The true test came with combined connections, utilizing both 10GbE ports alongside the USB4 Thunderbolt link simultaneously on the NVMe RAID 0 setup. By leveraging all available high-speed connections, I observed a combined performance rate of between 3.1 and 3.5 GB/s, with different instances of CrystalDiskMark capturing the aggregate throughput. This combined bandwidth illustrates the Lockerstor Gen 3’s potential to support multiple high-speed data streams simultaneously, ideal for multi-user environments where multiple clients need high-speed access to data at the same time.

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DropBox, OneDrive and Google Drive Sync – Each ADM Account is Able to Individually Log into one cloud Account, supporting Sync, Directly Upload Files to cloud from the NAS, or from cloud to NAS

Mail Server – Each ADM Account can Become an Independent Email Account, Provides SMTP, IMAP and POP3 Mail Protocols, Spam Filter and Black List Settings, Antivirus Scanning for Emails, Exclusive Email Backup Mechanism, Auto-Forwarding and Auto-Response Protocols

Photo Gallary – “Album” and “Browse” Viewing Modes, Manage Photo Album Access Rights: Public Access, Restricted to Certain Accounts, Album Password, Multi-level Folder Structure Support, Supports Tagging of Photos, One-click Sharing to Social Media (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Plurk, email), Intuitive Drag and Drop Management, Slideshow Viewing Mode, Supports a Wide Range of Image Formats: JPG/JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, RAW and Supports Video Playback

Surveillance Center – Up to 64 channels in 720p on single live view display, On-screen camera controls including camera PTZ, manual recordings, take snapshots, configure camera settings and open Maps, Up to 4 channels of synchronous and non-synchronous playback with audio, Intelligent video analytics including motion detection and foreign object detection, Supported Browsers: Windows Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Mac Safari, Mac Firefox ESR, Event notification supports SMS, E-mail, and mobile push notification, AiSecure mobile app for iOS and Android with Push notification, Maximum IP Cam (4 Free Licenses; Additional Licenses to be Purchased)

Takeasy – Download from YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and More, Selectable Video Type and Quality, Automatic Downloads with YouTube or Twitch Subscriptions, Preview Downloads in Progress and Online Playback

SoundsGood Audio App – Import Personal/Public Music Collection, Personal/Public Music Collection Permission Control, Playlist Editor, ID3 Tag Editor, Local Speaker Support: HDMI, USB, Audio Jack, Supported Audio Formats for Browser: MP3, WAV, Ogg, Supported Audio Formats for Transcoding Through Browser: AIFF, Flac, Supported Audio Formats for Local Speaker: MP3, WAV, Ogg, AIFF, Flac

Backup Tools – Rsync (Remote Sync) Backup, Cloud Backup, FTP Backup, External Backup, One-Touch Backup, EZ Sync, Btrfs Snapshots

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LooksGood Media App – Built-in three main video library categories; movies, TV shows, home movies and smart video sorting management

• • The efficient global search function allows for searches by keywords followed by the execution of more detailed searches for the purpose of finding categories of movies, TV shows, home movies and parameters such as actors, director, year, genre, writer and title
  • Attractive poster wall and thumbnail display
  • Automatic production of video poster thumbnails
  • Centralized management and ability to configure the order of favourites and playlist history
  • The system administrator is able to configure video library and editing permissions according to user preferences
  • Can configure access permissions to share with
  • Multimedia conversion feature
  • Self-defined smart folder for video conversions
  • Supports digital TV recordings via digital
  • Easy streaming with Chromecast and DLNA
  • Supports playback of videos in Apple TV via AiVideos tvOS version

Plex – Hardware Transcoding (with a Plex Pass) is likely and with 1080p handled very well indeed, as well as some Plex 4K transcoding in H.265 (upto 60-80Mb bitrate) and the majority of H.264 Media upto 100Mb bitrate

Storage Management – BTRFS Support, as well as EXT4 for the traditionalist, Multiple Snapshot storage and browsing for recovery, a large number of ISCSI and LUN target creation, fast-acting SSD caching use. Remember that those M.2 NVMe SSD Bays can be used as both raw Pools and Caching

Network Management – Support of LAG, Load Balancing and virtual switches, as well as maintaining top transmission over 2.5/5/10Gbe for editing or gaming over the network. As well as Jumbo Frame control, DDNS automation, Wake on LAN support and internet/external NAS access with EZ Connect

Backups – Supporting a wide range of multi-tiered backup options that can be carried out simultaneously thanks to the powerful CPU in the Lockerstor and Nimbustor NAS systems, such as network RSync, USB Backups, NAS-2-NAS migration, Cloud Backups with Google Drive, Dropbox and Backblaze and numerous RAID levels internally for redundancy.

Content Management – Numerous Content Management Systems (CMS) and Customer Relationship Managers (CRMs) available in 1st and 3rd party forms, with simultaneous operations supported by this NAS

User Account Control – Supporting over 4,000 accounts, each with its own bespoke privileges and access levels, as well as grouping methods to automate the process easily

Security – AES 256bit hardware encryption on data in/out of the device, as well as over backup methods, with the Intel Celeron CPU in the AS6804T maintaining high R/W speeds throughout, as well as Windows ACL permission and configuration, auto blacklisting and multiple VPN provider support