Terramaster F6-424 6-Bay NAS (N95, 8GB, 2x 2 NVMe, 2x 2.5g LAN) $799.99 Delivered @ TerraMaster Amazon AU

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warney on 10/07/2025 - 08:08 amazon.com.au (329 clicks)
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Just purchased this yesterday, and seeing Clear's Post prompted me to put this up as an alternative (if you wanted more bays at the sacrifice of performance and speed).

6 Bay NAS has the argument of being "better" than 4-bay as you have 66% useable vs 50% usable when you have 2 disks in parity.

I have been following the prices for a few months since May and the price has been this low prior but nothing since then. It is currently $899 at UMART and been at $999 at Amazon up until this Prime Day.

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  wisc on 10/07/2025 - 11:50

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  I don't get why people buy these, they are so pricey, either BYO, (build your own) or buy an external hdd chassis, and a prebuilt mini PC, probably close to half the cost for something that runs a decent amount of workload.

  yeah, the interface is nice?

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    Man10United on 10/07/2025 - 13:52

    While I can see why one would buy such NAS, I'm interested in cheaper solution. Can you please give me some examples of such hdd chassis?

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      wisc on 11/07/2025 - 20:36

      +1

      I got something like this (small external hdd chassis):
      https://www.pccasegear.com/products/60601/silverstone-fs305-…
      (as i already had a server (microserver) that i wanted to add more storage to. (its designed to be internal but who cares, its out of my way in the cupboard)

      Add it to a 200-300 dollar mini PC
      360-500 bux for a home lab/ server with plenty of space. depending on how much room you want it to take. (the only issue is finding a mini PC that has the five sata ports)
      but given you have quite a bit of wiggle room in the price. it should be doable.

      if you want to go cheaper with more drives and neater all in one: (just a VERY quick google, i do not really recommend this - as id do more research) buuuut:

      https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005007329288791.html
      and get a M-ATX Motherboard/CPU/RAM of your choice.
      130 bux for the case, but again might be able to find something better. (+20 bux from PLE)

      (example of what could go in it from a quick google - B450M-A PRO about 100 bux, 16GB of DDR 4 40 bux, amd 5500 120 bux - raid card another 50 bux or so)
      total 400 bux.
      without even looking double the RAM, MUCH more powerful CPU.
      can do so so much more with it.

      ohh, sorry forgot a power supply, 60 bux more. - was half the price without the power supply, and heaps better.

      but heck get a PCIe 1x raid card (as it only has 4 sata ports - another m atx motherboard may have more, so maybe you dont even need this, IE spend 50 more on the mboard.), you still have the PCI-E x16 slot - that case is a low profile case, but you could still put a 4060 low profile, and that thing would be a NAS AND gaming rig. (heck if its near your TV use it as a PS/retro gaming emulator)

      install true-nas and KVM and then you have a NAS and can have a whole home server.

      My microserver runs a hypervisor, has multiple web servers, mail servers, immich, plex, game servers, firewall/my main router, DC (dont use) a number of linux distros, /desktops that i can VNC into. if i didn't have a separate NVR, I could even run NVR software i rekon and have my cameras go directly to my nas (another few hundred saved)
      The router alone gives you another few hundred dollars of value/money saved that i could put into the build and not loose money. (that said i do have separate wireless access points.) - this would kinda make it a single point of failure… (but at half price, get two and make it have redundancies!)

      far better than these NAS systems - lets see a NAS do that.

      BUT, yeah, like i said in my OP, the interface is nice, plug and play, but if you know how to install an OS, you can really have something just as nice, half the price almost, better technically.

      there are other things like dual 2.5g, but yeah, doing a bit more investigation, Id say it wouldnt be hard to get something better in almost every way (except for plug and play and maybe ease of use - oh, and the size which may or may not matter, as its pretty cool how compact these things can be- but 300-400 bux for compact?)
      I mean if you dont want a graphics card in there just get a dual nic card so many opportunities, so many m-atx motherboards… im sure another one would have dual 2.5nics.

      but again heaps of different m atx cases as well:
      https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/server-nas/CS…

      hope this helps.

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        wisc on 15/07/2025 - 12:57

        if you don't care about the aesthetics,

        get something like:
        https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/915546 - $134
        the internal caddy already listed above
        https://www.pccasegear.com/products/60601/silverstone-fs305-… - $169 I'm sure you could find something cheaper.
        and a M2 to sata adapter:
        https://www.amazon.com.au/10Gtek-Adapter-SATA3-0-NO-Riad-Des… 64 bux

        (though you could also get something cheaper from ali express:
        https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007182349627.html $20.50)

        so $323 odd bux for a 5 port NAS, that has a slightly faster chip, 50 percent more RAM, has more flexibility, but only 2x gigabit ports, rather than the 2.5 that this has, yes you will need to "build it" but installing truenas is pretty simple.

        Not as pretty though. but is it "$400 less" pretty? each to there own, i do like the fact that the Terramaster is an all in one, but this option would certainly be suitable as the cheaper budget home lab / system.

        • Personally id go the above custom build (buying a custom case etc) for a bit more than the absolute cheapest, but as you can see you can do it for less than half the price of this, including an expensive caddy.

        surely there must be a cheaper NAS option that is basically the above but with a case that allows more hdds.

        now this is cool: - now we are talking.
        https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005901398655.html
        but would require a creative solution for power. (I probably should have got this over the silver-stone) could have had like 16 drives, 4 on the hp micro server motherboard, and 12 via a raid card with this bad boy.
        You may even be about to use an m2 to SAS adaptor to get this running on a micro pc

        https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1asj8iu/12_bay…

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    CheapGit on 10/07/2025 - 14:17

    Maybe for the basicslly plug and play aspect?
    My wife who is absolutely rubbish with tech (sorry love!) can use a NAS like these but could never build her own system.

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      wisc on 11/07/2025 - 20:40

      yeah, i think your right, RE the plug and play level. but with tools like true nas, if you can install the OS and build the PC, save 300 or so bux…for something that essentially does the same thing and more… I dont know, for me its just a no brainer.

      (true nas has a nice interface, is generally geared toward being a NAS)

      extract from web search on terramaster vs truenas:
      "While TerraMaster's TOS is improving, it may not match the polish of TrueNAS's software, especially in areas like virtualization and enterprise security."

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  Carrera1963 on 10/07/2025 - 16:27

  If it stacks with the PayTo 5% off, then a great deal.

  It's been $799 a few times, but usually via a coupon ($999-$200).

  I've already got an always-on Mac Mini, so bought the D4-320 for ~$240 as a Prime special.