Thecus two-bay NAS fits in palm of your hand

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Published: Wednesday 4th March, 2009 | Author: Tarinder Sandhu
Companies: Thecus (All Thecus content)

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Thecus will be introducing a new 'budget' NAS box during COMPUTEX this year, but we got a sneak peek at it on the stand at CeBIT 2009.

Lined up next to a BlackBerry Curve to illustrate the diminutive size, the N0204 miniNAS has been designed to accommodate two 2.5in drives.

RAID0, 1, and JBOD are supported, as are the usual multimedia support by way of an iTunes and media server, and the unit provides hot-swap capability as well as Gigabit Ethernet - so pretty much all the features you'd expect in a basic NAS box. Power consumption, too, should be good, thanks to the use of a low-power Oxford Semiconductor chip.

SSD support hasn't been validated yet and we're entirely unsure that the mauve colour will work, but the first public showing of the fanless N0204 makes us want one - if the price is right. Under £100 and it may well appeal to a broad section of folks.

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Re: News - Thecus two-bay NAS fits in palm of your hand

Posted by koocha - Wed 4th Mar 2009, 7:01pm

I want oneQuote

Re: News - Thecus two-bay NAS fits in palm of your hand

Posted by Funkstar - Wed 4th Mar 2009, 7:26pm

Yeah, on the face of it, it does look pretty cool (agree about the colour though).

lets see what the software is like though.Quote

Re: News - Thecus two-bay NAS fits in palm of your hand

Posted by xenos - Fri 6th Mar 2009, 12:01am

++decent software and processor
+ftp server please
+powerdown if no connected clients
+-bittorrent server
-colour (omg thats horrid)

= :-)Quote