Asustor Flashstor 6 FS6706T

This all-flash home NAS is very quick, but its lack of flexibility means we’d lean towards the Nimbustor 4.

LABS | NAS DRIVES $760 | asustor.com As its name suggests, the Flashstor 6 is an all-flash NAS enclosure, with space for up to six NVMe SSDs. It’s aimed mostly at enthusiast use in the home, so comes with useful multimedia features such as HDMI and S/PDIF audio outputs. It’s well specified elsewhere, too, with a pair of 2.5GbE network ports, two USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports and two USB-A 2 ports. The supplied 4GB of memory is upgradable to 16GB. It doesn’t have any hard disk slots, but you could add bulk storage with up to two Asustor AS6004U expansion units, each accepting up to four 3.5in SATA drives. If six SSDs isn’t enough, you could choose the 12-slot Flashstor 12, which is otherwise broadly the same. Most NAS…

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