It's been a little while since we took a NAS appliance for a spin, but the latest product to enter the HEXUS.pipeline changes all that. In fact, it's got promise.
Quite clearly from the picture this is a Thecus NAS appliance. More specifically it's the N5200. We'll have the review really soon. Meanwhile, here are a couple more pics to whet your appetite.
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mmmmmmmm five drive RAID goodness...
/dribble
And eSATA as well?
Apparently it's got an in-built antivirus package and it's also got a nice Pentium M in there as well.
Oh that looks so sweet, i really do hope the performance is much better than the 2050 i think, i was going to get one but it was just so poor
Looks lush to me
Cant quite make out from the pics, is it supposed to reside in 3 or 4 5.25" slots, or external from the PC altogether?
ooooooh! lets hope there is a (relatively) easy way to get into the device software then. Could make a *very* nice SlimServer and NAS combinationOriginally Posted by Lee @ SCAN
It has 5 Slots, runs on Celeron - built in Gigabit switch
Chances are it runs linux, so probably yes.ooooooh! lets hope there is a (relatively) easy way to get into the device software then. Could make a *very* nice SlimServer and NAS combination
Wonder if it will support the 750gb HDDs that are out now, maybe with a firmware update or something! Checked on their site, and they only list upto 500gb. Ok, thats 2.5TB in once device, but 3.75TB would be sweet
Wonder how much these are going to cost, the older N4100 was around £230 on scan, so i hope there wont be too much of a difference!
..... its not even launched yet
..... we will of course HAVE to test with 5 750GB drives...
Dave
In that case i cant wait for the review!
Makes it expensive if you fill it with 5 of those drives, but a must have tbh!
2.8TB of RAID-5 would be better than 3.5TB of RAID-0Checked on their site, and they only list upto 500gb. Ok, thats 2.5TB in once device, but 3.75TB would be sweet
remember 750gig isn't really what you get. More like 715gig, and thats before file system and RAID overheads.
It's worse than that. By my calcs 750GB = 699GiB (GiB being base 2) before you even consider RAID and filesystem overheads.
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my calcs say 750GB = 694.693632GiB
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