Review: Thecus N7700: seven bays of NAS goodness?

Feature

Implementation

SATA device

7xSATA for internal, 1xeSATA for external

LAN Interface (PCI-e)

RJ-45x2 : 10/100/1000 BASE-TX Auto MDI/MDI-X WOL supported

Expansion slot (PCI-e*1)

1

USB Interface

USB 2.0 host port x4(Front x2, Back x2) (A Type)

LCD Module

Displays system status and information

LED indicator

• Power(Blue)
• Status : System Busy/Fail(Blink Orange/ Blink Red)
• HDD1-7 Activity/Fail(Orange/Red)
• WAN (Link : Green; Activity : Orange)
• LAN (Link : Green; Activity : Orange)
• USB (Copy LED: Blue)
• eSATA (Activity LED:Blue)

Power supply

300W Power Supply

Disk interface

SATA I/II x7 via backplane

Thermal/Fan control

• Thermal sensor for HDD and processor temperature
• Temperature controlled system FAN speed 

Battery backup system clock (Schedule on/off support)

Buttons

• Power button(Front, power down controlled by S/W)
• LCM button (ENT,ESC,UP, DOWN)

RS232

1 (For UPS)

Environment

• Temperature : 5°C to 40°C
• Humidity : 0 ~ 80 % R.H. (Non-condensing)

Dimension

Tower Base

RAID

RAID modes

RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, JBOD

Auto-rebuild

Supported

Hot-swap

Supported

Hot spare

Supported

SMART

Supported

Disk

Power management

Spin down while idle time

Roaming

Supports roaming to other N7700

Network

Configuration

Fixed IP address, dynamic IP address

IP sharing mode

Can be enable/disabled

Transport Protocols

TCP/IP/Appletalk

File Protocols

SMB/CIFS, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, NFS v3, AFP

Link Aggregation

802.3ad, load balance and fail over

Data Access

Client OS support

Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
UNIX/Linux
Mac OS 9 / X 

WebDisk

Web-based file access

FTP

Built in FTP server with bandwidth control

Download Manager

HTTP / FTP / BT

Printer Server (IPP)

• Supports USB printers
• Supports various IPP printers
• Client can manage print job queue via web interface

Data Backup

Client Scheduled Incremental Data Backup

FarStone DriveClone PRO 5

Client System Disaster Recovery

FarStone DriveClone PRO 5

NAS Remote Replication

Via Thecus proprietary Nsync

USB Copy to N7700

Controlled via LCM

Snapshot

Supported

Block Level Access

iSCSI Target

Supports Microsoft/Mac/Linux Initiator

iSCSI initiator

For stacking with N5200/1U4500/N7700

Power management

Schedule power on/off

Supported

Volume management

Multiple RAID

Supported

Multiple Selectable File Systems

Ext3 / ZFS

Multimedia Support (Options for module upload)

iTunes Server

Supported File Types: AAC, MP3 w/ ID3 tag, WAV

Photo Web Server

• Supported File Types: GIF, JPG (JPEG), BMP, PNG
• Supports EXIF display
• Supports slide show

Media server

Supports uPnP AV streaming protocol

User Authentication

Local User

Supports built-in user accounts

Local Group

Supports built-in user groups

Windows ADS

Supported

File System

Type

Journaling File System

Capacity

16TB

File Size Supported

Supports Files max : 2TB  

Language Support

Unicode Support

Authorization (ACL)

Read, Write or Deny options on individual users or groups for share and folder level

Administration

Multilingual Web-based administration (Default auto)

Web-based server management Interface Supports English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, auto

Utility Programs

• Setup Wizard for MS Windows/MAC OSX
• Backup Utility for MS Windows/MAC OSX

Email notification

Sends system messages via Email to the system administrator

SNMP trap

System basic information

Others

Recycled bin

Supported

Web Server + MySQL

Supported

ISO Mount

Supported

User module

Supported

IP CAM surveillance Server

Supported to 20 IP CAM device