AMD NASes give us everything we ever wanted

Two new NASes go all-in on AMD. But in totally different directions. The 45Drives HL4 and ASUSTOR Lockerstor 6 Gen 3 were both provided for this video, though neither company paid any money or had any control over what I say about them. More information and other videos I mentioned in this video (as an Amazon Associate I earn for qualifying purchases): - 45Drives / 45Homelab HL4: https://store.45homelab.com/configure/hl4 - ASUSTOR Lockerstor 6 Gen 3: https://amzn.to/4huZNAn - Kioxia XG8 NVMe SSDs: https://amzn.to/42RpI0K - Seagate EXOS 20TB HDDs: https://amzn.to/40SifvV - RaidOwl's video on the Lockerstor and ADM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgmDEd_Ny-4 - Hardware Haven's video on TrueNAS on the Lockerstor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTWiQs4TLjs - CraftComputing's video on the 45Homelab HL8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IitwrXJuKzw - Lawrence System's video on 45Drive's Houston UI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07uTKOB1z7E Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Merch: https://www.redshirtjeff.com 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GeerlingEngineering 3rd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Level2Jeff Contents: 00:00 - Two wildly different, expensive NASes 01:51 - Lockerstor 6 Gen 3 - teardown 04:38 - Rebuild and overview 07:12 - Plugging in HDDs 09:31 - AMD Ryzen Embedded + ECC RAM 10:27 - First boot and setup 12:14 - 45Homelab HL4 - teardown and overview 16:18 - The same, but different 17:43 - First boot and setup 18:37 - Networking nightmares 19:29 - Houston UI and a more Linux-y experience 20:53 - Network storage performance 22:38 - A lot to like (except maybe the price)