Asustor AS6104T 4-bay NAS Review

1. Introduction2. Asustor AS6104T - Packaging and Bundle3. Asustor AS6104T - Design4. Asustor AS6104T - ADM OS5. Testing Methodology6. CrystalDiskMark7. ATTO Disk Benchmark8. Intel NASPT9. IOMeter10. Real Life Testing11. Power12. Final Thoughts13. View All Pages

The Asustor AS6104T is fairly compact for a four bay front loading NAS – measuring 230 x 170 x 185.5 mm and has a high degree of build quality and a well constructed chassis.

The top side of the front bezel houses two stacked LEDs – the top one being the power indicator while the lower one which is built into the on/off button is the system status indicator. Further down panel is the network activity LED.

Sitting at the bottom of the front bezel is a USB3.0 port that is built into the One Touch back up button, which again has its own LED indicator. The button can be set up in either a transfer mode or to perform one touch backups.

These LEDs can even be controlled from within the OS; you can increase or decrease their brightness or even program a night mode for them including time and day.

While the front panel may be light on ports, the same can't be said for the real panel as its very busy and gives an idea of what the AS6104T can support.

Firstly there are a pair of Ethernet ports that support Link aggregation, a pair each of USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports, dual eSATA ports, an HDMI 1.4b port and finally a S/PDIF output. Also on the back panel is the input for the 90W power adapter.

   

The four front mounted drive bays have a locking latch mechanism to hold them in place but there is no form of physical security lock, something to bear in mind if using the NAS in a busy office environment.

Each tray has an LED disk activity indicator built into it.

      

The drive trays continue the build quality theme as they are of metal construction and support both 3.5 and 2.5in discs including SSDs, although they are not tool free.

The larger disks are fixed through the tray side walls by four screws while the smaller format drives are fixed in place via holes in the tray floor. Currently the AS6104T supports drives up to 8TB in capacity giving the unit a maximum capacity of 32TB (4x8TB).

  

The AS6104T ships with 2GB of DDR3L-1600 memory as standard but upgrading it presents no real problem as accessing the two SO-DIMM slots is pretty straightforward.

Undoing three screws allows the units cover to be removed and the two slots sit behind a protective covering on one side of the chassis. The covering is cut to allow access to the slots but you mind find it easier to undo the four screws that help keep the covering in place and carefully peel it away, it does have an adhesive backing but with care it comes away easily enough. 

Physical Specifications

Processor Intel Celeron N3050 1.6GHz (burst up to 2.16GHz).
Memory 2GB DDR3L-1600.
Gigabit Ethernet Ports x 2
Front panel connectors 1 x SuperSpeed USB 3.0
Rear panel connectors 2 x SuperSpeed USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0, 2 x eSATA, 1 x HDMI 1.4b, 1 x S/PDIF.
RAID support  JBOD, RAID 0/1 /5 /6 /10, RAID 1 /5 +Hot Spare.
Maximum hard drive size supported 8TB (max total storage 32TB).
Dimensions (D x W x H)  230 x 170 x 185.5 mm.
Weight 2.9kg.

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