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Thecus N4810 High-Value 4-bay NAS Review

Storage/NAS by stefan @ 2017-06-08

The N4810 High-Value 4-bay NAS from Thecus does feature low-power consumption thanks to the Intel Celeron N3160 Quad-Core SoC and comes equipped with 4GB of RAM DDR3L. The RAM is expandable to 8GB, we do have a frontal display with buttons for easy access, plenty of USB ports for connecting extra storage and/or printers, HDMI output with support up to 4K and can also perform 4K playback thanks to the hardware decoding capabilities of the SoC.

Test Setup and Test Results

Test Setup

CPU : Intel I5 4690K Retail

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14

Motherboard : BIOSTAR GAMING Z97X

RAM : GeIL EVO CORSA 16GB 2400MHz C11

(2GB Exceleram DDR1333 for NASPT compatibility)

Video : HIS 280X

Power Supply : Cooler Master 850W

SSD : OCZ Vertex 4 256GB

Case: Cooler Master ATCS840

To test the NAS performances, the N4810 High-Value 4-bay NAS was populated with one OCZ Vertex 4 SSD along with one KingFast SLC E-Drive in RAID 0, formatted with a single volume and the NAS was connected directly to the computer, to avoid any limitations by implying additional hardware like a router. The first simple test was performed by loading the test file onto a RAM drive and then it was copied to the NAS, on its shared folder. The speed was recorded with Total Commander:

The second test was to copy the same file back to the computer; for eliminating any HDD speed limitations, the file was copied back to the RAM drive:

For performing a more advanced test, the Intel NAS Performance Toolkit was used, for performing 5 different test runs. Here are the results:

As extras, we have also included ATTO Disk Benchmark and Anvil:

ATTO Disk Benchmark

Anvil

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