Asustor Drivestor 2 Lite AS1102TL, 2 Bay NAS Enclosure Network Storage, 1.7GHz Quad Core, 1GbE Port, 1GB RAM DDR4, Network Attached Storage for Cloud Storage (Diskless)

I wasn't looking forward to replacing my previous NAS box, a Zyxel Media Server, with two 3GB NAS drives in RAID 1 configuration. All support for this device had ended and it proved incompatible with the latest version of Windows. All of my photos from four decades of snapping then needed a new home that was always accessible to the family and secure. My main concern was how easy it would be to find a replacement to build the RAID and copy over the pictures, having battled with the old device's unfriendly user interface. But I was very pleasantly surprised by the comprehensive and easy to understand web interface that Asustor have developed. They provided a good preview of their software on their website, which gave me the confidence to go ahead with the purchase of the Asustor Drivestor 2 Pro. I chose the more powerful version to give myself a longer usable lifespan as storage demands increase in the future. It's made the whole job quick and simple. Having copied all the photos to a spare drive I reformatted the NAS drives and fitted them to the Drivestor. The tool-free front cover is simply held on firmly with magnets, so access to the drive bays is very easy. The drives slide in to connect with the SATA data and power connections with one click. Once powered up and connected to my networked PC the whole process of establishing a new secure home for my precious files was done. It does take some hours to format and copy more than a TB of data, but the box just got on with the task while I did something else online. I think the product is well built, the software and support easy to understand and the instructions clear. Quality appears good at this stage. The box is silent most of the time. Other household users can upload and download files to the store over my home network, using the shares I was able to allocate during the setup. Expanding the storage in future is covered by the instructions supplied. The web interface also has downloadable apps and a link to a "College" which explains the various uses that the store can be put to. The Drivestor can be used for much more complex demands than my simple photographic archive, but the economic price and high quality support made it the ideal solution for my problem. There's a 3-year warranty and all UK standards are met, with both UKCA and CE logos on the packaging and product.

Been using this a few months now, works really really well. Super easy set up, no problems so far with this product. Its a great affordable price point to start a simple NAS & I'm really pleased with this. I've seen some reviews saying this is noisy - they must live in a dead silent house. Its very quiet- occasional feed back beeps (updating and rebooting) or the fan running a little hard if you're putting it through paces but otherwise this is next to silent.

Purchaced to replace a WD Mycloud Home that I have been using for 8+ years. The Asustor Drivestor 2 Pro Gen2 is a neat little 2 bay NAS that is easy to set up using the 'Asustor Control Center' app with a wealth of options available via the devices web interface. I Installed 2 SSD Drives and the unit is practicaly silent in operation. The speed via the 2.5Gb Ethernet port (my internal lan is already set up for 2.5Gb from Router, Network Switches and PCs) is lightning fast. Opening and saving documents on the Asustor Drivestor 2 Pro is as fast as opening them from my PCs hard drive. The web interface has a link that takes you to Asustors Online Help page that explains all the settings and options to you in detail. This is a proper NAS that can be used not only for storing documents and photos but running your own web server to running PLEX and a lot more! This is great value and a good introduction if you are looking to upgrade to a proper NAS system from a single drive storage system.

Bought with x2 Seagate Iron Wolf disks. Easy to setup and get running. Some of the Apps are a bit tricky and require some research, but the online help is generally good. I don't have much experience with NAS, but the disks in this machine are constantly busy and noisy too. There's no manual sleep mode either. I've had to schedule power off overnight as I can hear it chugging away in the room next door at night. Edit: This turned out to be the Photo Gallery 3 App. I accidentally added a drive containing 10k photos, and this caused it to kick off ufraw batches to generate a database and thumbnails. It was doing about 200 per day so would have been running for 50 days. As there's no way to halt the PG3 processes, I did a factory reset and re-initialised the drive. It's fine now with "normal" activity. I'd recommend staying away from the PG3 app, and use something that can utilise the processor on your PC/ Mac instead. Same goes for Plex I think, if you import sizeable collections, you'll bog the unit down whilst it does the background stuff.

I watched a few YouTube reviews and knew before I started this wasn't going to be a beast for Plex and the like. That did not bother me so much as I was really looking for network storage and SMB file sharing. The two bays aren't hot swap but again this wasn't something I was concerned about. Straight out of the box I put in 2 X 8gb drives powered it up and updated the firmware. This took around 10 minutes. A further account setup for access outside of my LAN and we were off to the races. The software is really intuitive and adding more apps was painless. I used the pre installed Asus file manager software to copy over the contents of a couple of my portable hard drives. Average copy speeds from these drives over USB 3 was around 120/130 mbps which I found very acceptable. After that I mounted the Nas as a network drive and copied a couple of TB of data off my PC where I achieved slightly slower speeds of about 100 Mbps. Still quite acceptable. Other positives are the unit is almost silent in operation, goes to sleep and wakes up without issue. Streaming to multiple PC's and televisions etc. has been simple. There are lots of things I plan to try in the coming days like Bubble UPnP etc but so far this has more than met my expectations. I know how I am and this will be a gateway drug and it'll probably be replaced by a bigger better unit within 12 months but as an introduction to how convenient and useful a Nas is it's been a revelation. Can't believe I've gone this long in life without one.

This is a very good NAS device. Transfer speeds were above 100 M/s. The set up is easy. The control centre is a great tool. There is only one thing which lets it down which is the noise. I bought this device just before Christmas. I had an message exchange with the seller or producer. They suggested the usual things- restart, software update, remove the dust from the CPU fan, it must be the hard disks .... I sent them an audio file from the noise. It is not the hard disks, and of course no dust (after using it for 2 weeks) it is the CPU fan. I would exchange the device if I would know the next one would be less noisy. It makes this kind of humming noise even without a hard disk in it. If you can put this device into another room, where nobody is disturbed by it, great, but I can only sit it next to my PC. If you are working then on your PC your nerves won't stand this continuous noise and the device is supposed to run 24/7. Finally I returned it. What a shame. I think this problem could be easily solved by the producer, but it is not (yet?) and also other customers complained about this whereas others were not bothered. I attach a zip file with the audio. You can hear the hard drive working, which is OK but not this permanent "humming". Attaching a zip or mp3 file did not work. Sorry.

After using WD drives for many years, I changed over to this for ease of use and it’s been the best decision I ever made. Simple to use, simple to set up, very secure with no access from outside the home network (you can set this up but outside my knowledge level) and easy to use apps. I simply cannot praise it enough

What a little beauty for the money! It arrived earlier today and took me only 30 mins to set up. That included installing 4 hard drives (Seagate Ironwolf 4TB), updating its operating system, setting up an admin account, configuring a RAID 5 and configuring SMB3 :) From that point it was a usable NAS albeit it will take quite a few hours to finish setting up its EXT 4 file system. You don't need to wait for that though as you can start backing up to it straight away. I'm currently getting 160+MB/s transfer over 2.5G network despite the fact that it is busy doing other stuff. Obvously it can do a lot more than just being a local NAS, but that's what I initially bought it for and is more than up to that job. FWIW: it is also quieter than I expected; no noticeable fan noise and just a very gentle rattle of the drives whilst writing/accessing data. You wouldn't notice if you were using it to stream music/video and most of the time otherwise it would be sitting there silently as backups are usually done when I am in bed.