5 Things to Know About the TerraMaster F5-422 NAS
Five SATA bays only The F5-422 supports five 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch SATA drives, but has no NVMe slots for caching.
No flash acceleration Most NAS units with this many bays include at least one NVMe cache slot. The F5-422 skips it entirely.
Raw capacity focus This NAS is built for pure SATA storage. If your workload doesn’t need fast cache, it works fine.
No upgrade path for speed You cannot add NVMe later. What you buy is what you get for drive performance.
Best for bulk storage Use it for media archives, backups, or other tasks where sequential SATA speed is enough.