Thecus N4100PRO reviewed by Maxit Malaysia
"For a small business, the N4100PRO is perfect"
06 January 2010 Source: www.thecus.com
Small businesses require storage devices that not only have a large capacity, but also offer excellent performance and connectivity options. For these users the N4100PRO from Thecus fits the bill perfectly.
Malaysia's Maxit Magazine tested the N4100PRO in their December 2009 issue, and when the dust settled, editors said that "For a small business, the N4100PRO is perfect..." and awarded the N4100PRO a final score of 8 out of 10!
The N4100PRO is powered by an AMD Geode LX800 processor and it comes with 256MB of DDR400 memory. We threw in four units of Western Digital's 2TB Black Caviar drives (WD2001FASS) and the N4100PRO booted up without any problems. It supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and JBOD and we selected RAID 5 for optimum space, security and performance...We recorded a write performance (over a Gigabit connection) of 8.5MB/sec and a read speed of nearly 12MB/sec...
...There are two Gigabit ports for redundancy and three USB ports which can be used to connect additional drives or offload data from your flash drives...
...For a small business, the N4100PRO is perfect as it offers a good balance of features, performance and price. Novices might have difficulty setting it up, but it's not impossibly complex. The asking price might seem a bit steep, but you do get what you pay for.
For the full review, check out the December 2009 issue of Maxit Magazine.