After the initial setup is complete, you’ll see ASUSTOR’s beautiful OS, ADM. ADM has a clean, game-inspired desktop feel. Here, you can tweak any additional settings you may want, add additional users, etc.<\/p>\n

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You can also install additional apps from the “App Central” app. Installing new apps is as easy as clicking the “Install” button under the app.<\/p>\n

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ASUSTOR provides some business-oriented apps with this NAS, but this NAS will generally be used at home for personal use. That said, here are some of the apps you may be interested in for home use:<\/p>\n

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• Plex Media Server<\/li>\n
• ASUSTOR Live<\/li>\n
• ASUSTOR Portal<\/li>\n
• iTunes Server<\/li>\n
• DataSync Center<\/li>\n
• LooksGood<\/li>\n
• MiniDLNA<\/li>\n
• Photo Gallery<\/li>\n
• Remote Center<\/li>\n
• SondsGood<\/li>\n
• UPnP Media Server<\/li>\n
• UPnP Media Server V2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  If you need help deciding which apps are right for you depending on what you want to accomplish, ASUSTOR gives you a “Categories” section that separates the apps based on use case.<\/p>\n

  For testing, we moved a folder with a mix of media and document files and saw results of 244MB\/s. Take advantage of the dual 2.5GbE link aggregation this NAS offers and expect to see much better numbers. Streaming 4K videos was flawless as well, with no stuttering or lag.<\/p>\n

  Is the AS5304T Worth the Price?<\/h2>\n

  At first glance, the AS5304T seems a bit pricey when considering you’ll need to buy your own drives. If you buy the NAS and add four 4TB Seagate IronWolf drives, for example, you’re looking at around $850 at least.<\/p>\n

  However, that’s almost always going to be the case, no matter which brand or consumer NAS model you go with–unless you hit some special campaign. When you consider the top notch components ASUSTOR equipped this box with, in addition to the very nice performance and full suite of apps for streaming and data storage, you honestly could do much, much worse than the AS5304T.<\/p>\n

  In a word: Yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The ASUSTOR AS5304T is a dual 2.5GbE gaming-inspired NAS geared towards users wanting to store and stream their own content. It comes equipped with an Intel Celeron quad core CPU, 4GB SO-DIMM DDR4 memory (expandable up to 8GB), and has a maximum raw storage capacity of 64TB. Going into this review, we were excited to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,20],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n