As a NAS, the ASUSTOR AS5002T is competent, well featured, performant, and stable. But, the real value is the incredible flexibility that the platform provides from its rich application ecosystem and the underlying hardware. Where competitive solutions mostly do one thing well, and that is great, this $315/£185 device is a good NAS, a good HTPC, and it has the ability to host VMs (i.e. a virtualized DVR) – fantastic.
