The AS6204T 4-bay NAS from ASUSTOR, equipped with a low-power Celeron J3160 Braswell CPU and 4GB of RAM can handle without issue the well-optimized ADM OS which transforms it into a machine with multiple functions: backups, different service hosting, virtual machine installation and operation, media center for online and offline content, gaming computer thanks to the included emulators and more.

Despite the fact that we are dealing with a less powerful central SoC from Intel, the system has proven as being quite speedy to boot and shut down, even when we had more applications running on it at the same time, while the frontal display is handy for performing different tasks (including finding out the current IP address for initialization purposes).

After registering the NAS on the web, we get full access to the App Center, which includes tons of modules from ASUSTOR and different other 3rd parties, most of which have very recent updates. Here we will also get to install ASUSTOR Portal, the interface which helps the NAS to be used on HDMI without the need of a computer, just by plugging in a mouse and keyboard.

Regarding the HDMI interface, 4K output is possible, but only at 30Hz since the output is provided on HDMI 1.4b and not HDMI 2.0 as we have seen with the QNAP TVS-882 Turbo vNAS.

The NAS performances are very good while using non-encrypted folders, but when the encryption is enabled we could see a small performance hit.

Indeed, we get tons of features packed into a relatively small enclosure thanks to the external power supply but some may ask…..at what price? Well, the currently tested model can be found out in online shops for about 529 Euros, which we think that it is a fair price for what it is offered on the table.

ASUSTOR AS6204T 4-bay NAS is Recommended For:

We would like to thank to ASUSTOR for making this review possible!