INTRODUCTION

   The original concept behind NAS (network attached storage) devices/servers might have been local and even remote file sharing but through the years numerous functions got introduced/added and so today both professionals and regular consumers alike have many reasons to own one. Now as some of you are certainly away performance has always been very crucial with any local network device (NAS servers included) and that's clearly evident by the technological "jumps" we've seen over the years. Just think about it, today we have local network speeds of up to 100000Mbps (100Gb/s) whereas less than 20 years ago 1000Mbps (1Gb/s) was at the top. Things however don't "progress" quite as fast in the consumer market so even the 10Gb/s connection (10GBASE-T was introduced roughly 14 years ago) is still not something we see a lot. Today with me i have a 10Gb/s (10GbE) factory ready NAS device/server by TerraMaster and more specifically their newest F2-422 model.

   Founded in 2010, TerraMaster is a professional brand which focuses on storage products, including network attached storage and direct attached storage, which is sold in more than 40 countries and regions. Products of TerraMaster are mainly designed for customers such as small and medium businesses and home users. With its core competitiveness in excellent hardware design and strong software developing ability, TerraMaster aims to provide customers with excellent products that offer reliability and value. TerraMaster has focused on the development of storage technology for many years. TerraMaster continues to explore storage technology and applications, such as how to create more functionality and value to storage products and make storage application easier, more convenient, safer and faster to provide customers with a complete, reliable and trusted data storage solution.

   The F2-422 is a dual bay NAS based on the Intel Celeron J3455 quad-core CPU (14nm/1.5GHz Base Frequency/2.3GHz Burst Frequency/2MB Cache/10W TDP) which TerraMaster has paired with 4GB LPDDR3 RAM running at 1600MHz (8GB maximum - can add a 2nd 4GB module) and an 8GB flash memory module. In terms of available connections, The F2-422 comes ready with two USB 3.0 ports, 2 RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet ports, single RJ45 10GbE Ethernet port and an HDMI output (for service purposes). Aside its two 3.5/2.5" SATA II/III bays which can be formatted with the BTRFS/EXT4 file systems and can be set in single, JBOD, RAID 0 and RAID 1 modes the F2-422 is also equipped with a rear 80mm exhaust fan which is responsible for keeping their temperatures in check. As with previous models the F2-422 uses TerraMasters very own TOS OS which at this time has reached version 4.1.30.