F8 SSD Plus NAS - 8 Bay All SSD, i3 8-Core 8-Thread CPU, 16GB DDR5 RAM, 10GbE Port, Compact High Performance Network Storage

Why did you pick this product vs others?: Looking for a small, easy to use local NAS for backup and bulk storage. The Terramaster met requirements, Ease of setup: I was honestly surprised how easy this thing was to configure and get networked. My main workstation runs Linux and sometimes that makes integration a bit complicated, but it was nearly plug 'n play. The setup wizard that runs on first start is very effective.

Absolutely happy with device performance, ticked all boxes

yes its fast, but a bit pricey! the iSCSI didn't work for me.

Fantastic little NAS! I set this up with 1x 500Gb NVMe for the system and 4x 2Tb NVMe for the TRaid disks. The startup was a little rocky, but I downloaded the App onto my phone and was able to install normally. Now it is up and running with an extra external 2 bay USB 3.2 Unit. Both 8Tb disks are in Raid 0 and working great. I wasn't too pleased with the temperatures (43° - 45°, so I set the fan speed from automatic to Medium speed 1945 rpm, and now the temperature dropped to about 32° which is great for this system. The only thing I don't like is the long waiting periods setting up TRaid on the system and Raid 0 on the USB disks. Other than that, it's super quiet, responds quickly from the menus, data transfer to and from the unit is fast. and fits perfectly into my 10 Gb network. I am looking forward to purchasing another TerraMaster F8 unit.

I have had the F8 SSD Plus for about a month. I mainly use it as a Plex server, and Plex works flawlessly on this unit - it even does hw transcodes! One of the first things I did was upgrade the RAM to 48GB (with a Crucial RAM 48GB DDR5 5600MHz card); technically, this unit only supports 32 RAM, but the 48 GB seems to be working fine, so far. The next thing I did was replace the operating system - I played around with TOS for a bit, but I am used to Linux and the OS just seemed...foreign, to Linux, almost like it was wearing a skin suit of Linux. I oped to install TrueNAS Scale (which is Debian-based) and it works almost flawlessly - the only thing you gotta do to get it to work is go into the BIOS and change: Security → Secure Boot → Secure Boot → Disabled Chipset → North Bridge → VT-d → Disabled Once you change those BIOS settings, you can install TrueNAS Scale (be warned that turing off Secure Boot can potentially lead to security issues, but that is the only way you can install ANY another OS and imo TrueNAS Scale is worth it). The 8 bays for SSD are great, but it comes with a caveat - you will need one bay for the OS, and for both TOS _and_ TrueNAS Scale, that _entire_ SSD disk is used for the OS, and all other space on it is 'lost'. You have two options - simply buy a cheap 128GB SSD and use that for the OS, OR you can find out how to use the remainder of that space on the NAS. I didnt look into it for TOS, but I do know that can be done for TrueNAS Scale (although it requires editing some python scripts, currently). TL;DR The physical unit itself is great; I wasnt a fan of the installed operating system, but you can - with just a very minor bit of work - install another OS (I installed TrueNAS Scale, and I have seen others install Unraid or even Windows). I highly recommend this unit, especially if you are using this for something like a Plex server.