TERRAMASTER F8 SSD Plus NAS - 8Bay All SSD NAS Storage Core i3 8-Core 8-Thread CPU, 16GB DDR5 RAM, 10GbE Port, 8 Heat Sinks Included, Palm-Sized Network Attached Storage Peak Performance (Diskless)

Got the NAS and inserted 4 drives I had already. Setting up the drives was fairly easy. Started using the drives then decided to add 4 more. Got 2 quickly and added them. Drive sync took just a few hours and didn’t overload the CPU even though it’s low powered. When I got the last 2 drives a day later the sync was about the same. Fans are well placed and the drive temps are steady at around 100f whether idle or under load. It comes with the proper heat sinks for M.2 drives that attach with rubber bands. Had 1 break but they have extras in the kit. This is the best SSD NAS I have seen with a good cooling setup and a decent price. It’s tiny and light so you could take it with you when traveling. Build is mostly plastic but sturdy enough that as long as you don’t drop it you should be fine. Software seems to be stable and mostly polished. The network UPS function forces you to use an IP address and will not allow a hostname like every other NAS on my rack. When clicking on certain options in the control panel it gives annoying pop ups and there are no keyboard shortcuts that I can find but once I set it up I haven’t needed to use the interface much so it’s not that bad for me. I have reached over 900MB/s with this pretty consistently and the latency is very low when moving small files.

Fantastic little NAS! I set this up with 1x 500Gb NVMe for the system and 4x 2Tb NVMe for the TRaid disks. The startup was a little rocky, but I downloaded the App onto my phone and was able to install normally. Now it is up and running with an extra external 2 bay USB 3.2 Unit. Both 8Tb disks are in Raid 0 and working great. I wasn't too pleased with the temperatures (43° - 45°, so I set the fan speed from automatic to Medium speed 1945 rpm, and now the temperature dropped to about 32° which is great for this system.The only thing I don't like is the long waiting periods setting up TRaid on the system and Raid 0 on the USB disks. Other than that, it's super quiet, responds quickly from the menus, data transfer to and from the unit is fast. and fits perfectly into my 10 Gb network. I am looking forward to purchasing another TerraMaster F8 unit.

Extremely impressed with the speed and performance of this unit. For those looking to run movies and services off it, you will want the beefier CPU and more RAM to help transcode files as neccessary. The unit is silent and you'd never know it was there if you didn't see the green light ontop.Very happy with my purchase and know this is a rock solid device.

I have had the F8 SSD Plus for about a month. I mainly use it as a Plex server, and Plex works flawlessly on this unit - it even does hw transcodes!One of the first things I did was upgrade the RAM to 48GB (with a Crucial RAM 48GB DDR5 5600MHz card); technically, this unit only supports 32 RAM, but the 48 GB seems to be working fine, so far.The next thing I did was replace the operating system - I played around with TOS for a bit, but I am used to Linux and the OS just seemed...foreign, to Linux, almost like it was wearing a skin suit of Linux. I oped to install TrueNAS Scale (which is Debian-based) and it works almost flawlessly - the only thing you gotta do to get it to work is go into the BIOS and change:Security → Secure Boot → Secure Boot → DisabledChipset → North Bridge → VT-d → DisabledOnce you change those BIOS settings, you can install TrueNAS Scale (be warned that turing off Secure Boot can potentially lead to security issues, but that is the only way you can install ANY another OS and imo TrueNAS Scale is worth it).The 8 bays for SSD are great, but it comes with a caveat - you will need one bay for the OS, and for both TOS _and_ TrueNAS Scale, that _entire_ SSD disk is used for the OS, and all other space on it is 'lost'. You have two options - simply buy a cheap 128GB SSD and use that for the OS, OR you can find out how to use the remainder of that space on the NAS. I didnt look into it for TOS, but I do know that can be done for TrueNAS Scale (although it requires editing some python scripts, currently).TL;DR The physical unit itself is great; I wasnt a fan of the installed operating system, but you can - with just a very minor bit of work - install another OS (I installed TrueNAS Scale, and I have seen others install Unraid or even Windows).I highly recommend this unit, especially if you are using this for something like a Plex server.

8bay is plenty. I just setup RAID 0 with 4nvme for now. No issues recognizing the drives. Intel N95 is quite fast for NAS usage. My drives are fast, so is the 10gbps LAN port. Basically everything is super fast with this NAS. The usb 3.2x2 ports are handy for connecting external drives and some accessories. I didn't connect anything extra yet. TNAS store has decent amount of plugins for extending the capabilities. The unit is very small indeed, makes it very portable. Build quality is also quite good. Overall very happy with the purchase. 8bay is very handy if you want to expand it. Although Terramaster says it can handle 32gb RAM, I wouldn't do that. According to Intel spec, N95 cpu can handle maximum of 16GB. While 32gb may be recognized by motherboard, the CPU won't take advantage of anything beyond 16gb as per spec. I plan on upgrading the ram to 16gb very soon. My usage is primarily just storage and sharing. I don't intent to host virtual machines on this. Very satisfied with it, I'd highly recommend it.

It’s a nice piece of hardware. I haven’t tried using TOS, I’m running Arch linux on it instead. The only issue is I’d get kernel panics on boot with Linux 6.12 and 6.13 if I had more than 6 nvme drives plugged in. Slot 1 and 3 specifically seemed to cause problems. I found a post online mentioning disabling VT-d and that fixed it.