Asustor Lockerstor 2 Gen2+ AS6702T v2 review
THE SO WHAT
Dual 5GbE and four M.2 slots paired with an aging Intel chip and high price shows the edge NAS market is straining to keep up with AI-era throughput without blowing the BOM. For infra teams, this is a reminder to benchmark end-to-end — network and storage upgrades without compute balance just move the bottleneck.
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