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Model: TERRAMASTER F4-212 4 Bay NAS - Quad Core CPU, 2GB DDR4 RAM, Network Attached Storage Personal Cloud with Rich Backup Solutions (Diskless)
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It looks like this device is EoL. These are three reasons why I think this:
1. This is running an older version of Terramaster's operating system TOS (5).
2. Terramaster promised an update for this line of devices (ARM based) to TOS 6 (the current version of their NAS operating system) that was supposed to be released in June-ish and it's still in beta with some features (like Docker) missing.
The Beta hasn't been updated in a while.
3. Terramaster released a "newer" budget NAS that is x86 (intel) and their marketing heavily implies that it's meant to replace ARM based NASes.
I've had this device for about a year now and it's been working well as a very basic file server (nothing more) but I would not buy it now knowing that it might stop getting updated pretty soon.
It looks like this device is EoL. These are three reasons why I think this:
1. This is running an older version of Terramaster's operating system TOS (5).
2. Terramaster promised an update for this line of devices (ARM based) to TOS 6 (the current version of their NAS operating system) that was supposed to be released in June-ish and it's still in beta with some features (like Docker) missing.
The Beta hasn't been updated in a while.
3. Terramaster released a "newer" budget NAS that is x86 (intel) and their marketing heavily implies that it's meant to replace ARM based NASes.
I've had this device for about a year now and it's been working well as a very basic file server (nothing more) but I would not buy it now knowing that it might stop getting updated pretty soon.
Slap unraid on it (thats what I did with an older silver model) or FreeNAS. TOS is kinda sketchy.
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1. This is running an older version of Terramaster's operating system TOS (5).
2. Terramaster promised an update for this line of devices (ARM based) to TOS 6 (the current version of their NAS operating system) that was supposed to be released in June-ish and it's still in beta with some features (like Docker) missing.
The Beta hasn't been updated in a while.
3. Terramaster released a "newer" budget NAS that is x86 (intel) and their marketing heavily implies that it's meant to replace ARM based NASes.
I've had this device for about a year now and it's been working well as a very basic file server (nothing more) but I would not buy it now knowing that it might stop getting updated pretty soon.
1. This is running an older version of Terramaster's operating system TOS (5).
2. Terramaster promised an update for this line of devices (ARM based) to TOS 6 (the current version of their NAS operating system) that was supposed to be released in June-ish and it's still in beta with some features (like Docker) missing.
The Beta hasn't been updated in a while.
3. Terramaster released a "newer" budget NAS that is x86 (intel) and their marketing heavily implies that it's meant to replace ARM based NASes.
I've had this device for about a year now and it's been working well as a very basic file server (nothing more) but I would not buy it now knowing that it might stop getting updated pretty soon.
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