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Published: 2014-07-10, Author: Tom , review by: modders-inc.com
With multiple people living at home having a large storage pool is almost a need vs. a want especially if the data is important. With the N5550 the options on how you configure that pool depends on your needs. If the data isn't important and you want the ...
Good Build Quality (Leaving Out The Front Door), Very Good Read/Write Performance, 5 Drive Bays, 2GB DDR3 RAM (Expandable To 8GB By Patching The FW), 2 Gigabit Ethernet Ports (With Link Aggregation), 5 USB Ports (1xUSB 3.0 / 4xUSB 2.0), eSATA Ports, HDMI/
Power Consumption, SATA II, Single USB 3.0 Port,
Thecus has been around for almost 10 years now but until the moment we got their N5550 in our hands we didn't think they could come close to QNAP, Synology and ASUSTOR both in terms of performance and operating system usability always based on what we had...
Published: 2014-06-29, Author: Christopher , review by: neowin.net
Abstract: Let's face it, most of the data we want to store on a centralized NAS device is media of some sort: Pictures, music, or videos. If you only have a large collection of Word documents, you can probably back them up to a USB thumbdrive and don't need teraby...
NAS (Network Attached Storage) units have been growing in popularity over the years, due to their ease of use in providing a lot of storage in a compact enclosure, while making redundancy a simple matter of replacing drives when warned. With the HTPC cont...
High price/performance ratio, Support for five hot-swap disks, Highly reliable operation, Low power consumption, Strong PSU (200 W) with 80 Plus certification, Comes with 2 GB RAM installed while most of the competition only has 1 GB, Fully metallic casin
The operating system's interface isn't as appealing and intuitive as the competition's offerings, Installing available modules can be really tricky, High memory utilization, especially during heavy network throughput, Fan can be noisy, No fan profile adju
The Thecus N5550 retails for $479.99. High price/performance ratio Support for five hot-swap disks Highly reliable operation Low power consumption Strong PSU (200 W) with 80 Plus certification Comes with 2 GB RAM installed while most of the competition on...
Expect to pay around $600 (Australian) for the Thecus N5550. That's a good price for a NAS with all the software features you could want, all the connection possibilities you could need and probably all the capacity (up to 20GB) you need with these 5 bays...
I'm impressed with what Thecus put together with the N5550. Just the hardware alone is well layed out and packed full of features like multiple USB ports and audio/video connections. This is also the first NAS we have had in that has had a USB 3.0 port. ...
The most important factor to consider with the Thecus N5550 is the price and that really goes for any product. However in the case of the N5550 it’s rather cheap for a 5-bay NAS with a retail price of just $510. As we mentioned earlier in comparison th...
Good sequential read and write performance, Runs very cool, HDMI port for HD content streaming, USB 3.0 support, Dual network, Easy to navigate interface, ISO mount, MiniUPS support
No automatic firmware update
The Thecus N5550 is a great performer with mre than storage on its mind. Because of its many modules to make it whatever you want and the ability to stream media, it earns the Bjorn3D Silver Bear Award....
The Thecus N5550 is fast, easy to use and affordable. That is the perfect recipe for home and small business users that are looking for a reliable NAS solution! ...
