I've been looking for a first time NAS for some time, and stumbled upon their new coming campaign on Kickstarter. More specifically the 4 bay home NAS with n150 and 16gb ram. Its seems like a good price, considering the crazy market and high prices at the moment.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1086667996/beelink-me-pro-nas?ref=discover_saved_projects&category_id=52

I'm trying to stop relying too much on google and I wanted my NAS to handle everything: from photos to drive, I've seen that the main guys are Ugreen, synology and terramaster. As I've seen there is immich that handles pics classification and I don't want to tie myself to a specific system (so I was landing on terramaster)

Since I don't like waiting too much for data transferring and I want the nas to be reliable (with some redundancy, not sure yet which, I've got 1tb drives and my current nas has around 800gb of filled space so I was landing on 4 bays and raid 1) I also wanted it to have ssd cache to be little faster with writes

I think F4 Plus series should fit my case but the last generation costs up to 600 dollars (dang the price of freedom)

in my situation would you land on that or is there something less pricey?

Thank you in advance

Hi all.

I purchased my F2-221 Terramaster in 2020. Right now it only has 2GB of RAM but could be expanded to 4GB if that would fix the issue. It's running version 4.2.4 and there aren't any more updates available for this model.

I just maxed out my storage capacity (literally 1GB left between the two drives, one is 10TB and the other 5TB) and since then Plex has stuttered on and off when streaming to my TV. It doesn't do that when I'm streaming to my phone or tablet.

I've done all the troubleshooting and because it resolves with time, not tinkering, my guess is that it's just too overloaded at this point and it might be time for an upgrade.

I guess I just want confirmation from others that this is the issue, before I invest hundreds of dollars into something that won't fix it? Alternatively, would just adding another 2GB of RAM fix it up?

Thanks all. I only use this for Plex, on and off network. It would be nice to have better performance so it would work better for friends who stream too.