TerraMaster F4 SSD Review - Is this the best SSD NAS you can buy?

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

I do an in depth review of the new TerraMaster F4 SSD NVMe NAS. Small, quiet powerful and for less than $400. Is this the affordable option for a NAS you can live with that you were waiting for?

I look at hardware, specs, SSD performance, as well as cooling, power consumption and build quality. I also test some SSD options to give you ideas on options on the storage to use.

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0:00 Intro
1:28 In the box
2:26 Hardware specs from the range
2:45 Look at the hardware and internals
6:24 Chipset, PCIe lane allocation and compute performance
10:00 FIO Performance Testing - Max Throughput
13:17 Power Consumption
14:10 Full Write Performance Tests
16:50 Thermal Testing for full disk write tests
19:45 Get the OS running
20:47 RAID Options and TRAID
22:00 Overview of the OS, features and capabilities
24:12 Brief Summary and Conclusions