Thecus TopTower N6850 6-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 set suite when it gets put to the test.
Specs
1.Hardware Platform
| Item | Spec |
| Processor | Intel® Pentium® G620 2.6Ghz |
| System Memory | 2GB DDR3 |
| LAN Interface (PCI-e) | RJ-45×2: Intel 82574L 10/100/1000 BASE-TX Auto MDI/MDI-X WOL supported PCI Express 8 lane slot x2 |
| USB Interface | USB 2.0 host port x4 (Type A, one has power always on function) (front x2, back x2) USB 3.0 host port x4 (front x2, back x2) |
| OLED | Displays system status and information (Multilingual) |
| HDMI Output | HDMI port (back x1) |
| Audio | MIC input, Line input, Audio output |
| Disk Interface | 6 x SATA for internal |
| Power Supply | Single power supply (80plus) |
| System Clock | Battery-backed up system clock |
| Power Management | Auto power on after shutdown due to power loss |
| Buzzer | Adjustable frequency alarm |
| Touch Panel | Power button OLED button (ENT, ESC, UP, DOWN) |
| Environment | Temperature: 0°C to 40°C Humidity: 0 ~ 80 % R.H. (Non-condensing) |
| Chassis | Tower base |
| Dimensions (HxWxD) | 320.4 x 215 x 282.6 (mm) |
| Compatibility | 10GbE PCI-e card USB/slim CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drive UPS |
2. Software Functions
| RAID | |
| RAID Modes | RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and JBOD |
| Auto-rebuild | Supported |
| Hot-swap | Supported |
| Dedicated Hot Spare | Supported |
| Global Hot Spare | Supported |
| Online RAID Migration | Supported |
| Online RAID Expansion | Supported |
| RAID Volume Encryption | AES256bit |
| Disk | |
| Power Management | Available spin-down while 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 |
| IP Sharing Mode | Can be enabled/disabled |
| 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 |
| Data Access | |
| Client OS Support | Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 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) |
| Rsync Backup | Rsync replicates data between two systems (via Rsync module) |
| DVD Backup | Supported |
| Mac OS X Time Machine | Supported |
| 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!™ Web Server (via module) | Supports GIF, JPG (JPEG), BMP, PNG Support EXIF display Support slide show |
| Media Server | Support 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/LDAP | Supported |
| On-line User list | Supported |
| Access Guard | Supports Black & White list/IP Filter |
| 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 |
| User Quota Sync | Supported |
| Administration | |
| User Interface | Web-based user interface supports English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish and Portuguese |
| Utility Program | MS Windows Setup Wizard Supports Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 Mac OS X Setup Wizard |
| Email Notifications | Sends system messages via email to the system administrator |
| SNMP Trap | System information trap out |
| SSH | Supported |
| Mobile Applications (iOS/Android) | |
| Thecus Dashboard | Mobile monitoring and administration (via module) |
| ThecusShare™ | Uploading, downloading, and streaming multimedia |
| Thecus-Disk | Manage files and folders on Thecus NAS, playback audio and video media, and view photos and documents |
| Others | |
| Recycle Bin | Supported |
| Web Disk | Supported (via module) |
| Web Server | Supported (via module) |
| ISO Mount | Supported |
| IP Cam Surveillance | Supports up to 10 IP cameras (via module) |
| Auto Module Installation | Thecus’s module server automatically provides the latest modules and updates through the user interface |
| Cloud Backup | Dropbox, ElephantDrive, Amazon S3, Acronis (via module) |
| Local Display | X-Window via HDMI output |
| Antivirus | McAfee (via module) |
