AsustorLockerstor 6 Gen 2 AS6706T | 6 Bay NAS, Quad Core 2.0GHz CPU, 4 M.2 PCIe 3.0 SSD Slots, 2 2.5GbE Ports, 8GB RAM DDR4, Network Attached Storage (Diskless)

This is a solid piece of kit.The good:* Great hardware for the price vs competitors.* ADM is a decent NAS OS overall.* Supports Docker and Portainer.* Supports Virtual Box VMs.* Allows installation of other OSs.* 4x NVMEs allows for wide setup options.* The front display is useful for in-place troubleshooting.* The HDMI port is also useful for troubleshooting on a faulty network.* Dual 2.5G ethernet ports as standard.* Supports Adaptive Link Aggregation for switches without native Link Aggregation support.* RAID performance is solid.The bad:* Only a single USB port in the back.* Only a single USB port in the front.* No official USB Hub support, so can't (officially) plug in multiple devices in the back nor the front.* The built-in media web apps are useless due to lack of some important codecs.* The built-in folder sync app is poorly designed, and not a candidate replacement for Nextcloud.* The mobile apps are better but still passable.* No built-in support for encrypted backups to non-MyArchive external devices.* No built-in support for Bitlocker encrypted devices.* No built-in support for local-encrypted cloud backups.* File names in encrypted shares are limited to 143 characters, same as competitors.* No way to control RAID rebuild speed via ADM, though can be controlled via SSH.As a home office NAS, this is performing its duties well, and the caveats are manageable for this role. The poor built-in encryption support is a nuisance but this is a general issue with NAS devices at this price point. It can be hacked in via a few packages and some duct tape.Home-only users looking for a competent 4K media experience should look into other devices first due to the spotty codec support.

A powerhouse NAS and a real Synology rival. Handles multiple 4K transcodes without breaking a sweat—perfect for media servers.The OS isn’t as polished as Synology’s, but the built-in app library (Plex, Docker, ARRs) covers the essentials. Security features are a nice bonus.Pro tip: Get more drive bays than you think you need. I upgraded from a 2-bay to this 6-bay and that was my biggest regret. Hardware quality vs. price is unbeatable.Steep learning curve if you’re new to Linux/Docker (as a Windows user, I struggled initially). But tinkering with it has been a fun project.One year in, still 200% satisfied. Ideal for upgraders or first-timers willing to learn. Just budget time for setup!

As an IT professional, I am utterly impressed!I tried the other brands at great cost with flaky software and rubbish errors, crap support ,this product is simple to use and if you are skilled, even better. As for support I havent needed it, it just works.I havent got time to go into detail, but as the Company Director, I highly suggest you buy this first.

I wanted a 6-bay NAS so the release notification email from Asustor came at the right moment. I compared the Lockerstor 6 Gen 2's specs with the similarly priced Synology DS1621+ and QNAP TS-673A. The DS1621+ lost out on its CPU and 1Gb/s network ports. The TS-673A nearly won as it has two standard PCIe slots for expansion and two NVMe slots for cache but, at 14 litres, it's 40% larger than the Lockerstor 6 which is a very compact 10 litres (the DS1621+ is 11 litres). The major downside of the Lockerstor 6 is that, if you want 10Gb/s LAN speeds, you're forced to use Asustor's dedicated 10Gb/s card which isn't available in this country yet and you have to give up all the NVMe slots to make room for it. The other problem is that the compatibility list hasn't been updated yet so you're guessing if you want to upgrade the RAM. The 8GB Crucial SODIMM I had didn't work but the 16GB Samsung left over from a laptop upgrade did.Installation went smoothly enough with six 6TB IronWolf drives in RAID10. These took almost 24 hours to initialise then another 17 hours to copy 12TB of data across (would have been 10 hours with a 10Gb/s card). The overall performance is excellent as expected and I expect the CPU will handle any apps I throw at it. The whole thing is very quiet, even when the disk are working. I've only had it for a week so it's early days yet but I don't think I'll regret my purchase, apart from the niggles noted above. It's well worth considering if you're after a six-bay NAS but do give the TS-673A careful consideration too.

I've had Asustor NAS for many years, but this is the best format / power so far. Having 6 bays makes it much more versatile, especially when buying drives. I was thinking of 4 x 20TB under Raid5, but with this I could go with 5 x 16TB, and a massive saving on the drive prices alone. I've not yet populated the 4 x M.2 slots, still debating what function and capacity to use, I'm leaning toward cache rather than volumes, but need to think it through properly still.The overall performance is brilliant, I'm really enjoying using Docker and Portainer to facilitate the features I previously had. This has stopped the issues I had with PHP versions clashing and there's no perceivable change in performance. OwnCloud & Plex as containers for now, but planning to add NginX and more.It's a very cost effective chassis, a highly recommended upgrade by a long time user

Ok well the bad part the cpu was hitting over 60 c on idle and hitting up to 90 with load that’s pretty high my synology was hitting 38 idle and bout 60 under load the synbology has the older version of the cpu but just as good . Build quality is really good. The operating system isn’t any where as good as synology also surveillance station is far better than the one from asus it’s pretty buggy . Due to the heat issue with the cpu I returned it and started useing my synology again .

Initial setup was very straightforwardNo issues at present