Terramaster TOS 5 NAS Software Review - Network Better?
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
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If you are an existing Terramaster NAS owner, or are someone that has been considering their NAS brand for your private server purchase, then you might have heard that they recently released their latest BIG software update. Upgrading from TOS 4 to TOS 5, this new update brings a huge range of improvements in the GUI, available applications, supported services, security and user controls to their NAS systems. Today I want to review this massive software upgrade and help you decide whether you should upgrade, as well as help you decide if a Terramaster NAS is going to be the right choice for you and your storage in 2022/2023. So, get comfortable and let’s break down everything about TOS 5 in today’s review and help you decide if it deserves your data!
What I liked in TOS 5
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The GUI is considerably clearer and much more vibrant.
The options and icons in the GUI are much more responsive and clear against other background activities.
There are considerably more backup and synchronization tools in TOS5.
There are a vastly improved number of storage configurations and services available at your disposal.
The mixed drive TRAID Is going to win serious points with ex-synology owners.
The system includes direct tech support and remote access terminal for official support and difficulties
The network isolation mode in TOS5 is both unique to the brand and particularly helpful.
The resource monitor is 10 times better than in previous versions of TOS 5 and genuinely useful.
What I did not like in TOS 5
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The number of applications that are still in beta at the launch of TOS5 is disappointing.
The upgrade path between TOS4 and TOS5 is not as smooth as it should be. And will confuse some and concern others.
Remote access still seems to be a little too easy to do. And not enough warning is provided as to the inherent dangers of a weak remote setup.
Multimedia tools are a little lacking and although there is a general DLNA media server application and the photo app in beta, there is no dedicated video or music tool available.
Resource sharing could still be greatly optimized when running multiple apps or services at once.
Video Chapters
00:00 - The Start
00:05 - What is TOS 5?
00:30 - Who Are Terramaster NAS?
01:00 - Disclaimers about this Software Review
01:55 - IMPORTANT - Some Apps are STILL in Beta
03:35 - The Upgrade from TOS 4 to TOS 5 is not very straight forward
05:15 - TOS 5 Review, Design & Navigation
16:33 - TOS 5 Review, Storage and Data Services
21:22 - TOS 5 Review, File/Folder Services & Management
28:32 - TOS 5 Review, Network & Security Management
29:27 - TOS 5 Review, Isolation Mode
35:05 - TOS 5 Review, Backups, Sync, Cloning and Cloud Connections
45:28 - TOS 5 Review, Multimedia Management & Streaming
52:08 - TOS 5 Review Verdict and Conclusion
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Thank you for this incredibly information packed summary. I will be setting up my first NAS (Terramaster F2-422) next weekend, when the drives arrive. I consider myself to have a good grasp of general computing and network functions and processes. Having said that, due to the sheer speed at which this video tries to cover every conceivable part of the software, I’m going to have to watch it several times. Also for a beginner video, the assumed knowledge of acronyms and other jargon is extremely high, leaving me quite lost on several occasions. I appreciate the work that must go into these videos, and thank you for that. But by way of feedback, this is incredibly overwhelming.
This is now on my F5-221 and it is pretty good. That TRAID is fantastic!
JEEEEZ!
I am only liking and commenting to defeat the RUclips algorithms. I am not the target audience for the Terramasster.
great review.
was very excited about TRAID but disappointed in how incredibly SLOW it is to create, did you notice this in any testing?
Having read some of the TerraMaster forums over the TOS5 update I think I'll be skipping on this one and going after an Asustor Lockerstor 4 Gen 2 instead. And this morning I just ordered the Asustor. Looking forward to having 2 separate RAID 1 setups and so on.
Got a F4-423 for only 400€ on prime day, cant wait to set it up, it sounds like a holy grail for plex by price/performance/energy consumption
I forward to see Firewall review TOS 5 but i don't see deep review for this. Please make it more deep for this future next time.
Bedankt
Thanks bud!
Does TOS5 support NTFS in terms of external USB 14TB HDD connection?
What do you think of TerraMaster T6-423 as a Plex Server ? In America it’s $699 way lower cost than synology or Qnap. Let us know thanks again, keep up the great work!!
For the price, hardware, and lack of hardware restrictions... Terramaster might end up being the easier sell over Synology. Depends on stuff like available memory, expandability, ECC or not, nvme cache or not. Might check back in on TM down the line if I don't like my unraid adventures.
Not happening with that software
Is it just me or does it seem like Terramaster is doing “Synology” better than Synology? TOS seems a lot like the best parts of DSM without as much of the weird quirks DSM has picked up over the years. And the hardware generally costs less. I realize there might not be quite as much polish here overall, but I’d consider this over Synology for my next NAS just for having AI object recognition in photos (c’mon Synology Photos!) And I prefer the overall aesthetic and colour scheme of TOS over DSM. The grey accenting is preferable over everything being blindingly white.
I kind of disagree with the Point of the Multimedia Software. I think the NAS-producers should stop developing their own Multimedia-Software. Why is this? First of all it is not their key competence but an unwanted step-child. For example the "best software NAS" Synology. The Android App for the Video Station is updated about/less than once a year followed by a second fix release. And it is not a rock stable App having tons of features. And the NAS-specific software misses the Plugins/addons of a/the community. They have no chance to get as good as multimedia apps like Emby, KODi, Plex or Jellyfin. I think it would be better if the NAS-producers would look out for a good open source Multimedia Software and contribute. They should implement a good integration in the NAS system. That would be a better choice. Just my opinion.
Absolutely. Leave multimedia to Plex/Emby/whoever whose sole purpose is building a slick media server with well supported clients. The last thing I want or need is yet another clunky multimedia server hiding somewhere on my network relying on possibly badly implemented, never updated, DLNA clients on devices like TV's.
Were the trash can ??? Please. On tos 4 there was
hello sir how are you i have a qnap ts-53b but i feel the device is very slow and the system is slow
Where is dedup?
"De-duplication"
Hated it, not a improvement. Went back to the old version. Had nothing but issues. Of course Tetramaster blamed me not Thier OS. Maybe try it later when it's been fixed.
With all the QNAP exploits lately, Terramaster creating a way to remotely access the server is a hard pass.
Wow, that sounds total surveillance by terramaster. That is a double no, no. So terramaster is only an option with any other NAS software. Sad.
So basically a Linux OS lol
Please don't spin the mouse pointer like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!