I want to introduce you to a fantastic little NVMe NAS device that provides a high performance storage option for creators or home lab enthusiasts. Take a look at my thoughts on the unit, pros and cons, as well as some performance benchmarking with VMware vSphere and VDBench.
The Terramaster F8 SSD Plus: https://www.terra-master.com/us/f8-ssd.html
The written review of the Terramaster F8 SSD Plus NVME NAS:
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2024/08/terramaster-f8-ssd-plus-review-all-flash-nas-with-nvme/
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Introducing the Terramaster F8 SSD PLUS NVMe NAS – 0:00
Disclaimer about the review – 0:43
Overview of the hardware features – 1:00
Comparing the F8 SSD and F8 SSD Plus – 1:38
Design and build quality – 2:07
Overview of the setup experience and TOS 6 – 2:47
Looking at the TOS6 interface and storage settings – 3:26
Looking at storage pool – 4:25
Overview of TRAID with Terramaster – 4:50
Advantages over traditional RAID5 – 5:03
Overview of TRAID PLUS, equivalent of RAID6 – 5:18
Looking at health information in the TOS utility – 6:00
Talking about my setup with TRAID – 6:25
Overview of the iSCSI app – 6:57
Showing how to use the iSCSI app to create an iSCSI LUN – 7:22
Enabling multiple connections to your iSCSI target – 8:41
Performance testing overview – 9:26
Looking at the HCIBench test on the Terramaster F8 SSD Plus – 9:45
Looking at the Grafana interface to show the performance testing results – 10:26
Testing finished and looking at results! – 11:00
Talking about the results of the benchmark – 12:02
Pros of the Terramaster F8 SSD Plus – 12:39
Cons of the Terramaster F8 SSD Plus – 13:23
Wrapping up my thoughts on this NVMe NAS – 14:16
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