ASUSTOR Lockerstor 8 AS6508T 8-Bay 10GbE NAS Specifications
Here are the key specs of the AS6508T:
We can see the AS6508T uses an Intel Atom C3538 quad-core processor at 2.1GHz, and a single 8GB DDR4 SODIMM is expandable to 32GB. In larger systems, an Intel Atom C3538 can take up to 4x 64GB RDIMMs for a total of 256GB, however, it is limited by the two SODIMM form factor here. For most NAS applications 8GB will be fine and 32GB expansion will cover use cases where the NAS is also serving heavier SMB server duties.
Test Configuration
The platform that we use for the testing on all of our NAS testings consists of the following items.
- Motherboard: ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme Motherboard
- CPU: AMD Threadripper 3960X (24 core / 48 Threads)
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2080 SUPER
- Cooling: NZXT Kraken X62
- RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 3600MHz 4x 16GB DDR4 (64GB Total)
- SSD: Sabrent Rocket 1TB NVMe Gen 4 SSD
- OS: Windows 10 Pro
- Switch: MikroTik CR312-4C+8XG-RM 10G
- Storage: 8x Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDDs
Let us continue with testing the ASUSTOR Lockerstor 8 AS6508T 8-Bay 10GbE NAS.
But does it support ZFS? Looks like it uses Btrfs instead…
I’m tempted to downsize, but I’m not giving up ZFS.
the test drives were the 8x 4TB Iron wolves?
what RAID config were they in?
@Mark: on page 2 there is a photo in which it say raid6.
You say “We did not get to test the unit with NVMe caching which may have helped the unit’s perf”…
Why ???
First you say this is a must have feature. Later you list the NVMe drive in the test configuration.
Then you don’t use it?
What’s the point of these tests then?
I haven’t seen anything about power consumption which is, in my opinion, a key parameter for consumers.
Could you elaborate this point please ?
I support an update to this review with NVMe caching.
I support an update to this review with power consumption.
I think this article was perhaps sponsored by Asustor..
horizonbrave – it was not. Everything on STH is editorially independent and we only accept advertising through 3rd party agencies (Google, Amazon, and some smaller ones)
” NVMe caching is a must have feature”
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“We did not get to test the unit with NVMe caching”
Kinda pointless to review this then isn’t it? Why not wait until you CAN test it. I’m sure STH makes enough ad revenue to buy two NVMe drives. Might want to buy some Kill-A-Watt’s while your at it too.