Asustor Drivestor NAS
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| Basic Information | |
|---|---|
| Release Year | 2025 |
| Product Type | Home NAS, Office NAS |
| In Production | Yes |
| Official Website | https://www.asustor.com/ |
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Consumer-impact summary
Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):
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- User Privacy
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- Market Control
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- Video hardware acceleration transcoding will no longer work[2]
- USB printer will be discontinued and no longer work[2]
Incidents
Video Hardware Acceleration Disabled After ADM 5.0 Update on Asustor Drivestor Models (2025)
Asustor Drivestor NAS models affected by the update:
After updating the OS to the latest release (ADM 5.1) will loose the following features:
- certain video formats will no longer be supported => video formats not specified
- updated libraries in ADM are not compatible with ffmpeg patches provided by Realtek. This affects NAS ASUSTOR NAS devices running Realtek CPUs. Which means hardware accelerated transcoding will no longer be supported after upgrading to ADM 5.0. Only video formats natively supported by the browser will remain playable while transcoding commonly used formats may not play properly.
- USB IP printer support will be discontinued
- components of the USB drivers will not be compatible with ADM 5.0. This means USB IP printer functionality, that is, connecting to a USB printer plugged into an ASUSTOR NAS through ASUSTOR Control Center will no longer be supported in ADM 5.0. Only network printer functionality will be available.
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "ADM Release Notes". Asustor. Archived from the original on 2025-10-23. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
Due to the termination of vendor driver and/or software support, starting with ADM 5.0, Drivestor and Drivestor Pro series NAS will no longer support hardware accelerated transcoding and USB IP printers. Please click here [https://www.asustor.com/product/status_detail?id=10] for details.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Feature Support Notice". Asustor. 2025-08-28. Archived from the original on 2025-09-04. Retrieved 2025-10-23.