TerraMaster F5-422, Intel Celeron J3455, 4GB RAM, 1x RJ-45 10GBase-T, 2x RJ-45 1000Base-T

The TerraMaster F5-422 is a great choice if you need to be able to get hold of your data wherever you are, whether that's simply transfering small files from work to home, backing up your phone photo albums to something more secure than the iCloud, or laying in bed watching your film collection without having to drag thumb drives hither and thither. It's flexible, compact and easy to use and worthy of your attention if you're finding yourself aching for a little more flexibility in your storage.

TerraMaster provides reasonable value for money with this product. This five-bay network-attached storage (NAS) drive comes with a slew of business-friendly features, including a fast 10GbE LAN interface, link aggregation, and a variety of RAID configuration options. The NAS is equipped with a sturdy SoC, 4GB of RAM, and that additional 10 Gbit/sec port. As a result, it is future-proof. The hardware of a NAS device is no longer the most crucial aspect to consider these days. The operating system's ability to work together continues to be the secret sauce of it all, and TOS (the NAS operating software) has definitely improved over prior generations we've examined, according to our findings.

The F5-422 achieved high network transfer speeds with open file transfers in our multi-client tests because of its bundled 10 GbE port. I didn't bother much with the two 1 GbE ports, which need a compatible switch to be teamed, and they still wouldn't be as fast as the single 10 GbE port. The major advantage of having multiple Ethernet ports is that traffic is dynamically reassigned to another physical link if one fails, so there is no downtime.