ASUSTOR, a subsidiary of ASUSTek/ASUS, have just revealed their newest selection of entry level NAS solutions. The new AS-20XT and AS-20XTE series feature 2 and 4 bay options with dual core Intel Atom processors. The AS-20XT NAS devices are more basic with only 512MB of RAM but the AS-20XTE NAS devices double up on the RAM with 1GB and offer more connectivity including HDMI out and line-out audio as well as an audio received – making it ideal for multi-media purposes.
ASUSTOR claim read and write speeds of 104MB/s and 74MB/s. ASUSTOR explain that these NAS devices are ideal for use as backup servers, file servers, video surveillance solutions, web servers and for the XTE variant as a multimedia player. The AS-20XTE series can be paired with the open source XBMC media centre application. As expected these new NAS devices from ASUSTOR come with the usual battery of ASUSTOR software powered by the ASUSTOR Data Master 2.0 operating system.
Key Specifications for the AS-20XT Series:
- Intel Atom 1.2 GHz Dual-Core Processor
- 512MB DDR3 RAM
- Maximum supported capacity of hard disks: 8TB (AS-202T) and 16TB (AS-204T)
- USB 3.0 (5 Gb/s)
- Support for online RAID level migration and capacity expansion
- Supported volume types: single disk, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10
Key Specifications for the AS-20XTE Series:
- Intel Atom 1.2 GHz Dual-Core Processor
- 1GB DDR3 RAM
- Maximum supported capacity of hard disks: 8TB (AS-202TE) and 16TB (AS-204TE)
- USB 3.0 (5 Gb/s)
- HDMI output
- Audio jack (line-out)
- Infrared receiver
- Support for online RAID level migration and capacity expansion
- Supported volume types: single disk, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10
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