We have another network storage device in our labs; the Thecus N2800. This is a 2-bay NAS with dual network controllers, USB 3.0, USB 2.0, and eSATA connectivity. We have tinkered around with some of Thecus’ products before and found that they usually are looking at getting you solid performance, but you are not going to get a ton of frills with them. This is not to say they do not have their own feature set that is worth talking about, but that in the past we have found them to be very straight forward products. Good performance, good price and they will do what you need them to. We have been told that this has changed at Theucus and they are moving in the direction of adding in a wider feature set with their NAS Products. So let’s take a look and see if there has been any improvement.
Conclusion – Thecus has always made good storage devices. I have personally worked with their products outside the lab environment and even setup an office with multiple Thecus NAS devices to make sure they had data redundancy (three offices each with a target NAS). Now these have all be the pro devices so this will be one of the first times that I will be working with a more consumer oriented NAS product from Thecus. After looking over the hardware inside (2GB of RAM, Intel Atom D2700, Dual Gbe LAN ports) we have a feeling that the N2800 will be quite the performer. We are also looking forward to trying out the laundry list of feature that Thecus has packed into the N2800. Things like Disk and Volume Encryption. iSCSI, Media Server, Download Server, Print Server, Rysnc Backup, Client backup, Secure FTP, iOS and Android Connectivity… the list is pretty long. So for now the Thecus N2800 with its $429 (no drives) price tag is looking very impressive to us. We are really looking forward to seeing what type of performance it will show us.
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