Thecus N4200 Pro 4-Bay NAS Review
Chris Hadley / 13 years ago
In general a NAS box is just an external hard drive caddy that is attached to your network rather than by USB or even Firewire. Because of this we can find a whole host of other features and utilities bundled into them giving them the leading edge over the other options available on the market.
Hardware Platform
| Item | Spec |
| Processor | Intel® Atom™ Processor D525 |
| System Memory | 1 GB DDR-3 SDRAM |
| LAN Interface | RJ-45×2 : 10/100/1000 BASE-TX Auto MDI/MDI-X |
| LCD indicator |
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| OLED Module |
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| Power Supply | External power adapter 19V input (support 2TB and above HDDx4 ) |
| Disk Interface | SATA x4 for internal, 2x eSATA for external |
| Expansion Slot | PCI-e x1 |
| USB Interface | USB 2.0 host port x6(Front x2, Back x4) (A Type) |
| Thermal/Fan control |
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| Real-time clock | Battery backup system clock |
| Buttons |
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| Chassis | Metal chassis |
| Lithium-ion Battery | Built-in battery backup module (Mini-UPS) |
| Environment |
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Software Functions
| RAID | |
| RAID Modes | RAID 0, 1, 5, 6,10, JBOD |
| Auto-Rebuild | Supported |
| Hot-Swap | Supported |
| Hot Spare | Supported |
| Online RAID Migration | Supported |
| Online RAID Expansion | Supported |
| SMART Info | Supported |
| SMART Test | Supported |
| RAID Volume Encryption | AES 256bit |
| Disk | |
| Power Management | Configurable automatic drive spin down |
| Roaming | Supports roaming to other N4200PRO NAS |
| Bad Block Scan | Supported |
| Volume Management | |
| Multiple RAID | Supported |
| Selectable File Systems | Ext3/ XFS/ZFS |
| Network | |
| Configuration | Fixed IP address, dynamic IP address |
| IP sharing mode | Can be enabled/disabled |
| Link Aggregation | 802.3ad, load balance, failover, Balance-XOR, Balance-TLB, Balance-ALB |
| Transport Protocols | TCP/IP, AppleTalk |
| File Protocols | SMB/CIFS, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, NFS v3, AFP |
| Data Access | |
| Client OS support |
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| WebDisk | Web-based file access |
| FTP | Built-in FTP server with bandwidth control |
| Secure FTP | Built-in Secure FTP server with bandwidth control |
| Download Manager (module) | HTTP / FTP / BT / eMule / NZB |
| Printer Server (IPP) |
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| TFTP Server | Users can download and upload files with TFTP programs. |
| Data Backup | |
| USB copy via OLED operation | Copy USB mass storage device contents to specified locations on NAS |
| NAS data backup to external USB disk (module) | Incremental with schedule supported |
| Client schedule incremental | Acronis True Image (OEM version) |
| Client system Disaster Recovery | Acronis True Image (OEM version) |
| Battery Backup Module (Mini-UPS) | Contingency Battery Power Supply |
| NAS Remote Replication | Via Thecus proprietary Nsync |
| NAS Remote Replication (module) | Via Rsync to replicate data between two systems. |
| Snapshot | Supported |
| Mac Time Machine | Supported |
| Bi-directional USB Copy (Module) | Supported |
| Block Level Access | |
| iSCSI Target | Supports Microsoft/Mac/Linux Initiator |
| iSCSI initiator | For stackable with N4200/ N4200Eco/N4200PRO/ N5200PRO/1U4600/N5500/N7700 series/N8800 series |
| iSCSI Thin Provisioning | Virtual size adjustable up to 16TB |
| Multimedia Support | |
| iTunes Server | Supported file types: AAC, MP3 w/ ID3 tag, WAV |
| Photo Web Server |
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| Media server | Supports uPnP AV streaming protocol |
| User Authentication | |
| Local User | Supports built-in user accounts |
| Local Group | Supports built-in user groups |
| Windows NT/ADS | Supported |
| File System | |
| Type | Journaling file system |
| Capacity | Multi-terabyte |
| Language Support | Unicode Support |
| Authorization | Read, Write or Deny options on individual users or groups |
| Authorization (ACL) | Read, Write or Deny options on individual users or groups for shared and sub-folders |
| Administration | |
| Multi-Lingual Web-based Administration | Web-based server management interface supports English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish and Portuguese. |
| Utility Program |
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| Email notification | Sends system messages via email to system administrator |
| SNMP Management | Supported |
| Power management | |
| Scheduled On/Off | Supported |
| Wake-On-LAN (WOL) | Supported |
| Auto Power On After Power Failure | Supported |
| Others | |
| Recycle bin | Supported |
| Dual DOM | Supported |
| Web Server + MySQL (module) | Supported |
| ISO Mount | Supported |
| Web Disk | Supported with remote access |
| Auto Module Installation | If Thecus IP storage is capable of connecting to the Internet, then it will automatically link to Thecus’s official website and list available modules. |
| IP CAM Surveillance Server (module) |
Supports up to 5 IP CAM |
| Supported Web Browsers |
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