AOOSTAR WTR PRO 4 Bay NAS (Ryzen 7 5825U) US$396.26 / A$639.73 Delivered (New User Only) @ China Box AliExpress

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I've been eager for this one to come back, it's not as cheap as the previous low of $564.38, but close.
If you combine it with Cashrewards 4.5% return you'll hit the $25 cap and bring it down to $570.
This is classed as a "Welcome Deal".

Pasting this bit from another post:

Tips and tricks:

The WiFi slot can be used as an M.2 NVMe x1 SSD slot and Aoostar may bundle a 2230/2242 sized SSD adapter to convert this. If they don't you can pick up adapters like this cheap or with a bit of effort fit a normal sized 2880 SSD.

Fan settings can be found in the fairly unrestricted BIOS under "/advanced/hardware monitor/system fan". Since it uses a 4pin connector you can swap it out for another. Fan modes:

    Fan off (0x70) = 30
    Fan start (0x71) = 35
    Full speed (0x72) = 80
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  • Ashburtonian on 24/05/2025 - 14:55
    +6

    I got mine last week, it is so impressive. Actually ended up running the included Win 11S with Plex Server…. Cue the outrage but it's stable, supporters hardware acceleration and combined with my East Digital 18TBs it's a beast! So far, so good 🔥

    • BiosPlus on 24/05/2025 - 15:49
      +2

      Interesting, I'm tempted to run UmbrelOS on it.

      • Ashburtonian on 24/05/2025 - 16:23

        Yeah when I get some spare time I may tinker. I unboxed and powered up, had Ubuntu ready to go but Windows fired up so I took the lazy path 😁

      • SpeedAU on 24/05/2025 - 16:26
        +3

        i prefer CasaOS

  • RiseAndRuin on 24/05/2025 - 14:59

    I can only see $595.57 + GST on the site.

  • shadyscab on 24/05/2025 - 15:18

    There was a forum post looking at NAS buy/build recently.

    These and the Ugreen’s are really temping great hardware but the software falls short so you’re better off running UNRAID anyway.

    A user specced out a N100 itx build at around $600 which is more expensive but comes with the upside of being able to upgrade your processor and motherboard.

    • Ashburtonian on 24/05/2025 - 16:26

      I can definitely see this POV, but I was blown away by the quality design of the Aoostar kit, it feels rock solid, super quiet and compact - that's why I end down this path in the end.

    • impoze on 24/05/2025 - 17:42
      +1

      In a jonsbo?

      • gizmomelb on 24/05/2025 - 20:15

        yes. that was me.. a jonebo N3 - 8 bay case

  • AlmightyGaz on 24/05/2025 - 15:19
    +4

    So tempting but i think i want the WTR Max or the Minisforum N5 Pro

    I picked up a Chatreey 2 Bay N150 NAS with 16GB ram and 512GB SSD a few weeks ago for AU$245.69 ex-gst; I'm going to fill it with 2 of those cheap server pull 16TB drives that we keep seeing and add it to my proxmox cluster purely as a backup focused system. Haven't completely settled on software just yet but kopia is looking like a decent bet.

    • Osiris on 24/05/2025 - 17:42

      Yeah tempted by the Max as well, the 6 drive bays and other additions are going to give it a lot more life and flexibility. That said gonna be around $1000 and they seem to have gone silent recently with few updates.

  • glitch23 on 24/05/2025 - 16:05

    Assuming the drives aren't hot swappable ?

    • ASA on 24/05/2025 - 17:19
      +1

      No

  • swamp potato on 24/05/2025 - 16:10
    -1

    I bought this thinking this could help move files in and out because I do video editing (4k video files sometimes over 300-400gb as it’s raw from the camera) but realising the transfer speeds is super slow and limited by my internet.

    Is that correct? Am I doing something wrong? Like getting 50-80mb/s which for a 300gb file is slow

    • rhangman on 24/05/2025 - 16:24
      +1

      Internet speed would only be a factor if you are in a different location to the server. Could be multiple bottlenecks. Usually network speeds would be the first though. Has 2x2.5GB ethernet ports. What speed is your switch? Also, the two ports, are you running them bonded or just a single port? Then what what is the network speed of your editing machine? Next bottleneck would be the storage setup. What drives and what configuration.

    • philotex on 24/05/2025 - 17:22

      Mbits or MBytes?

    • nerd1 on 24/05/2025 - 19:29
      +2

      Not enough information regarding your setup.

      Likely connect by WiFi, so that would be the the bottle neck.

  • impoze on 24/05/2025 - 16:15

    We still need to add ram and storage to these right?

    • ASA on 24/05/2025 - 17:27

      Yep. Supposedly can handle 64GB of DDR4 memory. I have 32 in mine.

      • TheMoose on 24/05/2025 - 17:34
        +2

        Definitely handles 64GB - I have that in mine.

  • SpeedAU on 24/05/2025 - 16:23
    +9

    if anyone want his at $550 delivered via UPS i have the manufacture details

  • Dyl on 24/05/2025 - 16:55

    Gosh I wish this was around when I built my NAS…

    Ended up totalling around $800 for a 6 bay (plus drives obvious)

  • leftspeaker2000 on 24/05/2025 - 17:13

    These don't work well with Unraid, right ?

    • ASA on 24/05/2025 - 17:16
      +2

      They work great with Unraid. I have Unraid on mine and love it.

      • leftspeaker2000 on 24/05/2025 - 17:17

        Thanks ! Do you happen to use this with plex and transcoding ?

        • ASA on 24/05/2025 - 17:24
          -1

          I have Plex on a different box but I have used Jellyfin on it with transcoding using the iGPU (Pretty sure I am going to move everything over to Jellyfin and ditch Plex). There is a SpaceInvaderOne video when he shows how to setup Jellyfin transcoding using different GPUs.

          Jellyfin uses their own forked ffmpeg, I think, so Plex may be different.
          But someone in the comments up above mentioned they have it working with Plex, I think.

    • SpeedAU on 24/05/2025 - 20:29
      +1

      only the n100 or 150 have some issues due to avmedia controller these ryzens use different controller

  • Phoebus on 24/05/2025 - 18:34
    -2

    No AV1 hardware encoding makes this a deal breaker.

    • gizmomelb on 24/05/2025 - 20:20
      +1

      ahhahaha.. sorry, best laugh I've had in a while. Sure AV1 encoding is nice and the cheapest / best (?) way to go would be an intel A310 GPU.
      That said, very few devices have AV1 hardware DECODING at the moment.
      Personally I encode everything with HEVC / nvENC before it goes on my NAS and shared with Jellyfin.

  • gizmomelb on 24/05/2025 - 20:16
    +9

    I built my own 8 bay NAS for around $600, will support up to 12x SATA drives and I'm running the synology DSM operating system (so totally unsupported by synology and while it does work with synology's remote connection service I do not use it at all - access could be cut at any moment). I'm using docker to run Jellyfin, Jellyseer, Grafana, HDD scrutiny, Sonarr (I was running the full 'arrs suite' but I never used anything other than sonarr, so I removed the unused containers). system CPU usage barely spikes and all dockers use about 4GB of RAM (I have 16GB DDR4/2666 installed).

    Personally I encode all video media to HEVC before it goes on to the NAS, it minimises the storage space it needs but I keep the original audio and subtitle tracks (I use staxrip to encode and then mkvedit to copy the original audio and susbtitles from the original ripped h264 bluray files to the new compressed video file). Yes it's a little bit of extra work, but it doesn't take me long and in my mind it enables me to keep encoding consistent across the majority of media (and I know my settings work across all the media streamers across my family user base, settings maintain the best image to compression ratio I could find (after a month or two of trying different settings) and compression generally shrinks my original files from 30-90% smaller than the original file size).

    Some questions -
    What do you specifically want the NAS for? Remote access and storage or just local network access?
    Immich would be great for photo storage and personally I use and recommend Jellyfin for media streaming / access (I have about a dozen family members using my Jellyfin on my 250/25 NBN connection and they have a mix of google tv, fire tv sticks and a couple of other android based media streamers connected to their tvs).
    If you're wanting to do heavy virtualisation then a better CPU than an intel n100/n150 based system would be recommened, but if you're wanting to stream then the intel iGPU is much better supported than the AMD iGPU.

    If you're ok with reading some guides then setting up remote access using tailscale, caddy or similar dockers is easy enough (and you've set up proxmox with pfsense so I feel you'll do ok - I have my proxmox with pihole, opnsense and home assistant running on an intel n150 mini PC for minimal power usage).

    My NAS I built towards end of 2024 and pricing then ($640):

    n5095 mini-itx NAS motherboard from ali express (12 SATA ports) - was about $180 AUD delivered.
    16GB Corsaire Vengeance DDR4 3200 SO-DIMM - amazon - $44
    Jonsbo N3 mini itx NAS case - PLE - $229
    thermaltake toughpower SFX 550W PSU (total overkill for this build) - PLE - $159
    6 x SATA thin cable ( ADCAUDX or similar) - amazon - just makes connecting SATA backplane to motherboard so much neater - $24

    currently I have 5x 10TB drives installed and with the system at load it uses about 50W from memory.

    If you specifically only wanted a 4 bay case, then I'd change the motherboard to one with faster ethernet (2.5 and 10Gig connections, depends on what you want / need) and has 6x SATA ports.

    This is what I'd recommend as an alternative (total $670):

    N100 NAS motherboard, 4x 2.5GBe ethernet and 6x SATA ports (or choose a similar one with 2x 2.5GBe and 1x 10Gbe) - $186 AUD aliexpress - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006374540503.html
    1x 16GB DDR5 SODIMM for motherboard - $60-70 from amazon.au
    Josbo N2 case (has 5 bays) - supplier PLE - $199 (though to be honest, the N3 for $229 with more bays is much better value in my opinion)
    thermaltake toughpower SFX 550W PSU (total overkill for this build) - CPL - $159
    6 x SATA thin cable ( ADCAUDX or similar) - amazon - just makes connecting SATA backplane to motherboard so much neater - $26 - https://www.amazon.com.au/ADCAUDX-SATA-III-Cable-Right-Angle…

    Now you could get a motherboard with an n150 CPU on it instead, but my opinion is that it's not much of a speed bump / performance and some people have had issues with iGPU support under linux - though using the latest kernel fixes that since support for the n150 igpu was only added fairly recently.

    As for O/S? Well lots out there, I chose auxxxilium to install the synology DSM as it supported SHR and allowed me to initially move my old drives from my HP n36l microservers directly into the new case/motherboard - synology picked up the pre-installed DSM array and it just worked. After I had migrated all the data off the old drives (which had DSM 5 installed) I put in the new drives and did a fresh DSM 7.2 install. Now as I said, I don't use the synology remote connect or any other apps which 'call home' to synology and that's fine for me, it depends on what you want and how confident you feel with work arounds if there are features you need or if you prefer to go UNRAID etc.

  • jeet on 25/05/2025 - 12:01

    Does the AMD one works fine with Plex hardware transcoding or get the N150 for Plex transcoding.

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