Aoostar WTR Max launches as new 11-bay NAS with capable AMD Ryzen APU and OCuLink port

[Redaktion]

The Aoostar WTR Max made its first debut in China, and while the company didn't reveal much about the NAS back then, it has now made the system available to pre-order. It packs the Ryzen 7 Pro 8845HS, and the barebone version costs $699.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Aoostar-WTR-Max-launches-as-new-11-bay-NAS-with-capable-AMD-Ryzen-APU-and-OCuLink-port.991136.0.html

[Johnson John]

Looks fun, but I wonder how storage, networking and OCulink are going to fare given the 20 PCIe lanes the chip offers - OCulink alone is, what, PCIe 4.0 8x worth of bandwidth? Not that it's really need for a NAS, but still.

The NVMe slots appear to be limited to 1 or 2x only, which is enough for a storage device, plus all six SATA disks it supports. And 2 x 2.5G + 2 x 10G networking.. something is going to throttle.

Don't get me wrong, I really like Aoostar's NAS models, but with this one they seem to try to cram too many features in.

[heffeque]

What does Synology give you for $699?
Sheesh! Synology has great SW but... they're making it more and more difficult to stick with them every year.