Thecus N7510 7-Bay NAS Review
Chris Hadley / 12 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.
One key feature that we will point out from the extensive list below for this particular system, and one that we have not seen or used to date is the support for for RAID 50. For those who are not full familiar with how the RAID systems work when mixed together, RAID 50 is basically two 3 drive RAID 5 arrays that are then striped together to give the benefit of a RAID 5 parity array but with effectively with a speed boost. With this in mind we should expect to see this array type showing some good results in our NASPT suite when it gets put to the test.
Specs
1.Hardware Platform
| Item | Spec |
| Processor | Intel® Atom™ Processor |
| System Memory | 2GB DDR3 |
| LAN Interface (PCI-e) | RJ-45×2: 10/100/1000 BASE-TX Auto MDI/MDI-X WOL supported |
| USB Interface | USB 2.0 host port x4 (back x4) USB 3.0 host port x2 (front x2) |
| LCM Module | LCM display 4 buttons (ENTER, ESC, UP, DOWN) |
| SATA DOM | 1GB |
| HDMI Output | HDMI port (back x1) |
| VGA Output | VGA port (back x1) |
| Audio | MIC input, Line input, Audio output |
| Disk Interface | 7 x SATA for internal 1 x eSATA for external |
| Power Supply | 300W Power Supply |
| Thermal/Fan control | Thermal sensor on processor temperature System FAN speed controlled by temperature |
| System Clock | Battery-backed up system clock |
| Power Management | Auto power on after shutdown due to power loss |
| Buzzer | Adjustable frequency alarm |
| Buttons | Power button LCM button |
| Environment | Temperature: 5°C to 40°C Humidity: 0 ~ 80 % R.H. (Non-condensing) |
| Chassis | Tower Metal Chassis |
| Dimensions (HxWxD) | 320 x 210 x 270 (mm) |
| Certificates | CE/FCC/C-Tick/VCCI/BSMI RoHS WEEE VMware, Citrix |
2. Software Functions
| RAID | |
| RAID Modes | RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and JBOD |
| Auto-rebuild | Supported |
| Hot-swap | Supported |
| Hot Spare | Supported |
| Online RAID Migration | Supported |
| Online RAID Expansion | Supported |
| RAID Volume Encryption | AES256bit |
| Disk | |
| Power Management | Available spin-down on idle setting |
| Bad Block Scanning | Supported |
| SMART Info | Supported |
| SMART Test | Supported |
| Disk Roaming | Supports volume-based roaming to other Thecus NAS |
| Network | |
| Configuration | Fixed IP address, dynamic IP address |
| Transport Protocols | TCP/IP/AppleTalk |
| File Protocols | SMB/CIFS, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, NFS v4, AFP |
| Link Aggregation | Load balance, Failover, 802.3ad, Balance-XOR, Balance-TLB, Balance-ALB |
| TCP/IP | IPV6 & IPV4 |
| DDNS | Supported |
| SSH | Supported |
| UPnP | Supported |
| UPnP Port forwarding | Supported |
| System status | |
| System Monitor | Monitoring CPU, memory, temperature, fan, network utilization and protocols access user count |
| Syslog Management | Send syslog to assigned location Act as syslog server to receive log info from other systems |
| Data Access | |
| Client OS Support | Windows 8/7/Vista/2003/XP/2000 UNIX/Linux Mac OS X |
| FTP | Built-in FTP server with bandwidth control |
| Secure FTP | Built-in secure FTP server with bandwidth control |
| TFTP | Users can download and upload files with TFTP programs |
| Download Manager | BT download (via Transmission module) NZB download (via NZB module) |
| Printer Server (IPP) | Supports USB printers Supports a wide range of IPP printers Client can manage print tasks (list/delete) via web user interface |
| Data Backup | |
| Client Incremental Data Backup | Acronis True Image (OEM version) |
| Client System Disaster Recovery | Acronis True Image (OEM version) |
| Client Side Backup Software | Thecus Backup Utility (Windows/Mac OS X) |
| Data Burn | Create files to ISO image and burn to optical disc Create files to ISO image Read ISO image from optical disc and write to NAS |
| Mac OS X Time Machine | Supported |
| Data Guard | Remote Backup/Local Backup |
| Block Level Access | |
| iSCSI Target/Initiator | Supports Microsoft/Mac OS X/Linux initiators and Thecus NAS targets |
| iSCSI Thin Provisioning | Supported |
| MPIO | Supported |
| MCS | Supported |
| Clustering | Supported |
| SCSI3 Persistent Group Reservation | Supported |
| Power Management | |
| Scheduled Power On/Off | Supported |
| Volume Management | |
| Multiple RAID | Supported |
| Multiple File System Selectable | EXT3/EXT4/XFS |
| Multimedia Support | |
| iTunes Server | Supports AAC, MP3 w/ID3 tag and WAV |
| Piczza!™ Photo Server (via module) | Supports GIF, JPG (JPEG), BMP and PNG Supports EXIF display Supports slide shows |
| Media Server | Supports uPnP AV streaming protocol (via Twonkymedia module) |
| User Authentication | |
| Local User | Supports built-in user accounts |
| Local Group | Supports built-in user groups |
| Windows ADS | Supported |
| LDAP | Supported |
| Access Guard | Supports Black & White list/IP Filter |
| Cloud Backup | |
| DropBox | Supported (via module) |
| ElephantDriver | Supported (via module) |
| Amazon S3 | Supported |
| File System | |
| Type | Journaling File System |
| Language Support | Unicode Support |
| Authorization (ACL) | “Read”, “write”, or “deny” privileges to individual users or groups in folders and sub-folders |
| User Quota | Supported |
| Administration | |
| User Interface | Web-based user interface supports English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish and Czech. |
| Utility Program | MS Windows Setup Wizard Supports Windows 8/7/Vista/2003/XP/2000 Mac OS X Setup Wizard |
| Email Notifications | Sends system messages via email to the system administrator |
| SNMP Trap | System information trap out |
| Mobile Applications (iOS/Android) | |
| Thecus Dashboard | Mobile monitoring and administration (via module) |
| T-OnTheGo™ (iOS) | Upload, download and stream multimedia |
| Data Security | |
| Virus Scan | Supports McAfee® (via module) |
| Capacity Expansion | |
| Stackable | Can extend for 5 additional iSCSI volumes from other Thecus NAS |
| Others | |
| Recycle Bin | Supported |
| Web Disk | Supported (via module) |
| Web Server | Supported (via module) |
| ISO Mount | Supported |
| IP Cam Surveillance | Supports up to 5 IP cameras (via module) |
| Auto Module Installation | Thecus’ module server automatically provides the latest modules and updates through the user interface. |
| Local Display | X-Window via HDMI output |
