Manufacturer: Asustor Price: $ 360 US Author: Steven Walton Date: 12/01/2015

[ Introduction ]

Today we have the new affordable multimedia focused NAS from Asustor, the AS3104T. Designed for home users the AS3104T is a potential HTPC replacement and file server all in one little compact box. Powered by an Intel Braswell SoC, it isn’t light on power either and should give other budget offerings a real run for their money... Just a few weeks ago we checked out Asustor’s latest 2-bay NAS designed specifically for power users and businesses, the AS6202T. Armed with the latest Intel Braswell quad-core N3150 processor and 4GB of RAM, performance was impressive. Unfortunately the AS6202T was let down by the astronomically high $560 price, making it the most expensive 2-bay NAS we had come across. Not only that but the bigger 4-bay model cost just $100 more, so we didn’t see much sense in buying the 2-bay model. Still for those of you who can’t or aren’t interested in spending almost $700 on a 4-bay NAS, then perhaps Asustor’s latest creation will be of more interest. The new AS3104T is Asustor’s latest home personal user offering and at just $360 it is very affordable for a 4-bay NAS. The brand new AS31 series offers 4K multimedia playback, making them the ultimate home theatre PC slash file server replacement. So far the series consists of two models, the 2-bay AS3102T and the 4-bay AS3104T, we have the latter on hand for testing. Both are powered by an Intel Braswell SoC, though unlike the much more expensive AS6202T these models feature a slower dual-core model and just 2GB of RAM. Still for home users this solution should prove more than powerful enough given Asustor are advertising 4K playback and therefore 1080p is a given. Asustor has also updated the design of the AS31 series, giving them a flash new diamond plate cover which we will look at shortly. Of course the latest ADM 2.5 software also works with the AS31 series and we will be testing the AS3104T version 2.5.1 which was just released.

Table of Contents >>> Introduction <<< AS3104T in Detail ADM 2.5 Operating System Test System Specs & Power Benchmarks: File Download Performance Benchmarks: File Upload Performance Benchmarks: File Copy Performance Benchmarks: CrystalDiskMark 3.0 Benchmarks: Atto Disk Benchmark Final Thoughts Next Page ->

Leviez

Posted on: 12/03/2015 06:15 AM Thank you I am sold!

ProX	Posted on: 12/08/2015 04:34 AM Nice review and good looking product thanks.

Stan	Posted on: 12/15/2015 12:00 AM I got mine a week ago. No idea how I use to do things before, it is so good now.

Neez Posts: 1 Joined: 2016-04-15

Posted on: 04/15/2016 06:32 PM I assume when testing power consumption idle is with the disks spinning and access is while copying or writing a file?? I'm shopping for a new nas now, and i like your reviews the best. But the biggest criteria in my search is power consumption while the disks are spun down. Most of these nas units will spin down the disks after a period of inactivity. Power consumption on newer ones are supposed to be <15watts. Since i only use my NAS a few times a week, power consumption while spun down matters alot and consumption during use matters very little, since i only use it 3-4 hours at a time a few times a week. Would be awesome if you could add that to your testing regiment. However, i still love the free reviews, and appreciate the work you put into it. Thanks alot for your efforts.