MADSHRIMPS - Hardware Reviews ,Crazy Projects, Modding Tutorials and Overclocking

[M]adness

Intel Core i7 In-Depth Performance Scaling Analysis

Sponsors

Thecus N2200 Review - Your ideal home NAS?

Network attached RAID 0-1 and JBOD, iTunes server, photo server, media server (uPnP), USB/IP webcam support, ftp/bt/eMule support, hotswap and autorebuild functions, all that you can get in one solution which is easy to use and requires only a minimum of knowledge to set up properly. The Thecus N2200 also comes at a very respectable price, could it be the ideal home NAS? We find out for you, read along.

Author	geoffrey
Editor	jmke
Date	2010-07-07
Discuss	0 comment(s)
Print this Article


	Living in the age of stupidly low prices for PCs it's no surprise to find multiple of them per household. More people are getting familiar with home networking and network attached peripherals, the ease of having all your data centralized and always accessible has brought us home grade network attached storage (NAS) devices and more and more do we find this kind of external storage taking place in non-industry/office environments. NAS will keep on charming more people in the near future without doubt and so this [M]reviewer found it was about time to upgrade his own external data storage device. Thecus to the rescue Founded in 2004 Thecus is a relatively new player in pc consumer market, though they speak of decades of R&D experience. How's that? Well Thecus was originally part of the hardware department from Abit Computer for several years. At the time Abit saw the immature but yet huge market for storage and spent resource to develop storage products. In 2004 Edwin Lin, general manager of the Abit R&D team, took one step further and founded Thecus Technology Corp. and became an independent organization dedicated 100% to storage. So taking account of the development period, Thecus had been doing storage for almost 10 years. Their first successful project was the first ever 4 bay NAS with Intel’s IOP in 2005. In 2007, they introduced the 1st 5 bay NAS (with Intel Celeron) and also the 1st NAS with iSCSI. They established solid relationship with Intel since and opened up the storage market for Intel. The picture below represents the current product line starting from consumer 2 bay (2 HDDs) NAS up to enterprise 8 bays (2U rack mount) NAS. They also have 3 pure iSCSI products for high-end enterprise applications. Today we'll be looking at the N2200, an advanced NAS for home entertainment: Features: Status At-a-Glance: front LCD displaying the status Easy to Set Up, Easy to Use: AJAX web based interaface and one-click USB disk backup, backup and synchronizing software Enterprise-Class Data Protection At Home: RAID 0, 1, and JBOD, auto-rebuild, hot swapping Rich and Friendly Multimedia Features: iTunes server, photo web server, media server (DLNA/uPnP compatiable), http, FTP, BT, and eMule download, USB/IP webcam Quietly Saving Money: as low as 11W, near noiseless While the main goal is securing data, the extra features makes live just a tad easier, for instance the USB quick copy feature, while other features are just very useful to have included in this package (security cam for example). The merrier the options, the more people will feel related to this product... Quanta costa? € 159, for that price you can't build your own home server, but does this mean it is worth the asking price? I took my time to experiment and check out all the possibilities, features and performance of the N2200 to see if it is justified to spend this amount of money for a product which on its own doesn't do really more then 'keeping data secure' and ‘accessible’. \| Next ->> Quick Page Jump: More reviews in this category can be found below: ADATA Nobility Series S805 USB Flash Drive Review ADATA Superior Series C905 USB Flash Drive Review Icy Dock MB668 External ScrewLess 2.5Inch HDD Enclosure Review Thecus N2200 Review - Your ideal home NAS? Sunbeamtech Air Box USB 3.0 External HDD Enclosure Review Apacer Handy Steno AH522 USB Flash Drive Review Walton Chaintech APOGEE AstroDrive 16GB USB Flash Drive Review Hitachi 500Gb Portable Drive External USB 2.0 HDD Review Apacer Handy Steno AH328 Flash Drive Review Walton Chaintech 2.5inch Apogee SSD Converter Review

Copyright © 2001-2010 Madshrimps / JMkeOC.com, All rights reserved.
Graphical Design by Dennis Kestelle, Programming by John Meys, Paul Meys and Frederik Colardyn, Overall Site design by John Meys

All information and graphics contained in Madshrimps are sole property of the Madshrimps crew and may not be reproduced or copied in any manner without written permission from us.

BTW-BE 0888919678

	ADS by G

	Search Madshrimps

	Search Madshrimps:

	Daily News

	When LN2 Cooling Ob... When LN2 Cooling Ob... AMD Reveals Competi... Caring for the Elde... How to Secure Windo... PS3 3.42 software u... Intel to announce a... ASUS ENGTX460 TOP 7... IC designers may de... Intel server share ... Microsoft Hohm and ... Samsung Epic 4G Rev... 3D Blu-ray & HD... GeForce GTS 450 lis... AMD Radeon HD 6300 ... Evolving The AMD Br... AMD Radeon HD 6000 ... NVIDIA Worried Abou... AMD Pulling an NVID... Cooler Master Silen... Syndicate Madshrimps Daily News with our XML/RSS Feed! Receive updates by e-mail Read more News...

	Sponsor Space:

	New Content

	Articles/Reviews: G.Skill Flare F3-16... ROCCAT ARVO Compact... ECS P55H-AK LGA1156... Gigabyte GA-880GMA-... Mad Catz Eclipse Wi... Foxconn NetBox-nT33... ARCTIC COOLING MX-4... ROCCAT Pyra Wireles... NAS Cases Compared ... ADATA Nobility Seri... DDR3 Memory Overclo... Tones Overclocking ... Shuttle XPC SH55J2 ... ASRock X58 Extreme3... Tones Overclock Aca... Howto and Guides: Building a 300W Fan... NVIDIA Geforce 8400... NVIDIA Geforce 8800... Reviving and Volt M... Protect the core of...