ASUSTOR, which is a young company founded in 2011 succeeded to bring to the market quite quickly NAS devices, which are surprisingly advanced and sport features which we haven’t seen at other established manufacturers like Synology: a LED display, frontal controls or HDMI port for audio/video output.

The NAS chassis is solid and comes with an integrated power supply, which makes the unit a little heavy, even without HDDs installed. The AS-604T model is equipped with an Atom D2700 processor at 2.13GHz and 1GB of RAM. The RAM quantity is user upgradeable so we can add one more module for a total quantity of 2GB or 3GB. ASUSTOR has used a single 120mm fan, which is quite silent, but not as much as we have seen on the DS413 and DS412+ units from Synology (a faint buzz can be heard, but this noise would be completely canceled by the sound of the HDDs which we’ll install inside the bays).

Thanks to the Boxee package, we can transform the NAS into a fully-featured Media Center and for remote we can either use a regular mouse/keyboard or the software meant for mobile devices, which is offered for free.

With the help of the frontal buttons, we can initialize the drives by simply using the display and without using a computer. However, the web user interface is not as advanced as DSM, but the software team is working to continuously improve it.

We can find the stock configuration with 1GB ram of the AS-604T online for about 600 Euros, while the Synology DS412+, which has comparable performance, can be found for between 530 and 550 Euros. We feel that if the AS-604T prices would drop a bit, it could become a serious competitor for the other manufacturers.

ASUSTOR AS-604T 4-bay NAS Server is Recommended For:

In Belgium, the customer info is the following:

Distributor:

ITC Multimedia

http://www.itcmm.com/

Reseller:

Xellion

http://xellion-tech.be

For Netherlands, we have the following customer info:

Distributor:

Network Media Systems

http://www.networkmediasystems.nl/

Reseller:

Informatique

http://www.informatique.nl/

Wifimedia

http://wifimedia.eu/

MyMediaCenter

http://www.mymediacenter.nl/

Mobile-Harddisk

http://www.mobile-harddisk.nl/

I would like to thank again to ASUSTOR for making this review possible.