If you are looking for a NAS without hard drives, pay attention to the Asustor Flashstor Gen2, the second generation of the series, which eliminates the use of hard drives in favor of faster and more modern SSDs.

In general, NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices use hard drives for tasks related to data and file backup and for other use cases of these general-purpose devices, such as media server, collaboration, P2P client or video surveillance. What’s more, we exactly recommended using old hard drives in the NAS.

However, SSDs started to be used in NAS a long time ago, first as secondary caching drives and then as storage media all the way. complete replacement of hard drives.

Asustor Flashstor Gen2

Asustor was one of the first to do so with its “Flashstor” series and now announces a second version with improvements in all parts. The manufacturer sells the series in two versions depending on the number of available slots for SSD equipment: 6 or 12 SSDs. They both have some minimum dimensions (309 x 193 x 48 mm), which is another advantage over NAS with hard drives, which are usually quite large and yet weigh only 1.4 kg.

While the original version used Intel Celeron N5105 processors, this generation is equipped with AMD Ryzen Embedded V3C14 processors, with 4 cores and 8 threads and a working frequency of up to 3.8 GHz, its TDP consumption is 15 watts and also higher Celeron performance, it supports more memory capacity , up to 64 GB LPDDR5-4800.

Asustor also updated connectivitydebuting new USB4 (Type-C) ports and three USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports for greater versatility. 10 GbE Ethernet network ports are a matter of course.

Availability and price

Asustor Flashstor Gen2 will be distributed in two versions. The base includes 6 M.2 2280 slots for PCIe Gen 4 storage, 8 GB non-ECC RAM (expandable) and a 10 Gb Ethernet port with official price 999 dollars. The top version comes with 12 SSD slots, 16GB of RAM and two 10GbE LAN ports for the price 1399 dollars. High prices for the latest and most powerful NAS.