Storage/NAS by stefan @ 2013-02-21
Even if they are new on the market, ASUSTOR has succeeded to deliver some powerful NAS servers. The model that we are reviewing in this article comes with 4 bays, is meant for usage at home and in small business environments and is packing an Intel Atom DS2700 CPU along with 1GB of RAM (user upgradeable to 3GB).
To unlock the trays we have to press the small buttons located on their lower side; a small latch will be raised, which we can use to remove each tray from its location:
ASUSTOR went with metallic trays instead of plastic, and has used a black plastic interface between the tray and the next-to-be-installed drive, for avoiding any short-circuits; on the sides we haven’t found any rubber rings for vibration dampening purposes:
On the front side we have a ventilation grill:
On one of the tray sides, we will find two small transparent plastic bands that travel from the back to the front, for making the activity LEDs visible externally:
By turning the tray on the other side, we will see the pre-drilled holes for 2.5’’ drives, which are also marked:
By removing 3 screws in the back, we can remove the top metallic cover, which will reveal the internals; the NAS was designed in such a way so dust cleaning won’t become a problem; on the top side we have the PSU:
The power supply is manufactured by FSC and is a 250W model:
The 24-pin ATX power along with the 4-pin connectors is connected to the small motherboard, on the left side of the NAS:
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Ran in on a €100.000 Storage solution (iSCSI)
PhotoAlbum: 11.627MB/s
DirectoryCopyFromNAS: 23.304MB/s
DirectoryCopyToNAS: 14.129MB/s
FileCopyFromNAS : 45.147MB/s
FileCopyToNAS: 1149.257MB/s *
OfficeProductivity: 25.083MB/s
ContentCreation: 11.827MB/s
HDVideo_1Play_1Record: 87.289MB/s
HDVideo_1Record: 1280.751MB/s *
HDVideo_1Play: 60.779MB/s
HDVideo_2Play: 90.809MB/s
HDVideo_4Play: 143.016MB/s
scores marked * are skewed because of the test system having more than >2GB RAM.
overall I'd say that performance wise the AS-604T CPU is fast enough to not be a bottleneck performance wise; the SSD inside pushes it past A lot more expensive enterprise products