Thecus N4560 Soho/Home NAS Server Review

Storage/NAS by stefan @ 2014-06-02

The Thecus N4560 NAS is built on the well-known Intel Evansport platform which implies usage of the Atom CE5335 SoC at 1.6GHz, which is backed by 2GB of DDR3 RAM. Besides the included bays, we can further expand the storage via the provided USB ports and XBMC integration is welcome for using the NAS as a standalone media center.

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A Closer Look Part II

On the left side of the bays we have the status LEDs present:

 

 

 

Further down there is one USB 3.0 port along with the Power button:

 

 

 

Under the bays we will find the LED display with backlight, along with the control buttons:

 

 

 

In the bay area, Thecus has used a metallic mesh in order to help with the ventilation:

 

 

 

Both left and right sides of the NAS are quite plain and do not feature additional ventilation holes:

 

 

 

 

 

Now a short look at the back side of the unit; the central 92mm system fan takes care of keeping the internals cool while the power supply is equipped with a smaller fan:

 

 

 

On the right side of the fan grill, we will be able to spot two USB ports along with a single LAN port:

 

 

 

Further down we will find one HDMI port along with the SPDIF:

 

 

 

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