SSD Benchmarks

As the TerraMaster F4-424 Max has a pair of M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe slots, we also ran our file copy tests using a single SSD, to see how much performance faster drives can deliver. We've already seen that there's quite a lot of extra performance left in the synthetic benchmarks, but do they reflect real world performance numbers? Well, the TerraMaster F4-424 Max beats the Ugreen NASync DXP4800 Plus hands down here, and it seems like the extra CPU power and PCIe bandwidth allows it to get ahead of the F8 SSD Plus as well, making this the fastest NAS we've tested to date. This is by quite some margin when it comes to copying single large files from the NAS, as the F4-424 Max manages to copy very nearly an extra 120 MB/s over the F8 SSD Plus here.

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Heatsink Warning

A note here on using SSDs is that TOS 6 will warn you both when use a SSD as cache or when you configure to use a SSD as a storage volume; that NVMe SSDs generate a lot of heat and that you should install a heatsink to extend the life of your SSD and to keep your data safe. As we've already pointed out, this is going to be quite tricky due to the limited space available in the housing. TerraMaster should really have bundled suitable heatsinks.