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ASUSTOR AS1004T 4-bay NAS Review

Storage/NAS by stefan @ 2015-11-22

AS1004T NAS takes part of the latest ASUSTOR server series meant for home use, which does sport a Marvell ARMADA-385 1GHz Dual-Core processor, is paired with just 512MB of RAM and can house up to four drives. The chassis has been completely redesigned and in order to access the drives, we will have to completely remove the cover; unlike the previous NASes we have tested from the same company, this unit lacks trays and only 3.5’’ drives are supported for installation. Because of the utilized ARMADA-385 SoC, the overall power consumption is very low, while the four bays are cooled by a single 120mm fan located in the back. We can connect more devices to the NAS, but be aware that only two extra USB ports (3.0) are available with the server.

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ASUSTOR also have available for us an iOS/Android application which allows us to perform the setup procedure and also control the NAS without the need of a PC. After downloading the application from the store, we can detect the server on the local network:

The detection will only take a short while and afterwards the server will be listed inside the application:

By pressing the Start Init button, our AS1004T will download the latest firmware file from the web and apply it:

The second part of the setup can be also performed here:

We will be first asked for the admin password:

The other setting like Date/Time and LAN can be also configured here:

Moving further, we can specify the type of RAID we do want to initialize after selecting the disks:

The wizard will then apply the settings and show us the progress bar:

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