Thecus N5200 NAS Review | Hardware Secrets

Conclusions

Thecus N5200 is really a high-end NAS box target to users that want a NAS solution with above-the-average performance. Here is a summary of what we found about this NAS box.

Strong Points

LCD display
RAID6 support
Faster than other NAS products
Outstanding write performance
Case with aluminum cover, giving a very professional looks to the product (the internal chassis is made of steel though).

Weak Points

Sharp metal is used on the hard disk drive drawers; we cut ourselves when installing the hard disk drives.
Doesn’t come with the necessary screws to fasten the hard disk drives.
No label identifying which one is the WAN and which was is the LAN port.
Far more expensive than mainstream NAS products.

This product is recommended for the home or office user that manipulates large files and wants a high-performance NAS box and doesn’t mind paying more for that. For the average user, however, there are products that offer a better cost/benefit ratio, like Thecus N3200, which costs half the price of N5200’s.

Keep in mind that if you don’t have a Gigabit network and don’t plan to migrate to this speed then you can buy the cheapest NAS box you can find, since performance will be limited by your network; all NAS boxes achieve the same performance level on a 100 Mbps network.

Thecus N5200 NAS Review
By Gabriel Torres on August 16, 2008	Page 11 of 11
Conclusions Thecus N5200 is really a high-end NAS box target to users that want a NAS solution with above-the-average performance. Here is a summary of what we found about this NAS box. Strong Points LCD display RAID6 support Faster than other NAS products Outstanding write performance Case with aluminum cover, giving a very professional looks to the product (the internal chassis is made of steel though). Weak Points Sharp metal is used on the hard disk drive drawers; we cut ourselves when installing the hard disk drives. Doesn’t come with the necessary screws to fasten the hard disk drives. No label identifying which one is the WAN and which was is the LAN port. Far more expensive than mainstream NAS products. This product is recommended for the home or office user that manipulates large files and wants a high-performance NAS box and doesn’t mind paying more for that. For the average user, however, there are products that offer a better cost/benefit ratio, like Thecus N3200, which costs half the price of N5200’s. Keep in mind that if you don’t have a Gigabit network and don’t plan to migrate to this speed then you can buy the cheapest NAS box you can find, since performance will be limited by your network; all NAS boxes achieve the same performance level on a 100 Mbps network.
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