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Thecus N5550 ‘Enterprise’ 5-bay NAS – Software Many other third-party modules can be found on the official Thecus forums. There’s also an unofficial XBMC module available in case you want to go the full-blown media center route. HDMI and VGA outputs are included for those who may want to hook up a keyboard and mouse to the NAS and use it directly. One of the best additions over the N5500 is USB 3.0, although it’s a shame there’s only one port made available. The N5550 includes dual LAN ports, one WAN and one LAN, which can be joined together for things like load balancing or failovers. This will not only keep the NAS running at top performance all the time, it’ll drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to rebuild a RAID array. Microphone, Line input and Audio out jacksįor SMB/enterprise use, performance is imperative, and for that reason Thecus has equipped the N5550 with one of the beefiest Atom processors around and doubled-up on the memory. LCM Display w/ 4 Buttons (Up, Down, Enter, Esc) Thecus N5550 ‘Enterprise’ 5-bay NAS – Hardware
Some might find this clunky, but it does prevent accidentally turning the device off, as a single hit of the power will initiate the shutdown process.īefore we take a tour of the NAS, let’s first take a look at what it brings to the table with its hardware and software. For a couple of reasons, Thecus stows most of the buttons behind the door, such as the power and reset. My personal usage scenario is 4 drives in RAID5 for content and backup, and the other for torrents and other randomness.Īs seen in the photo above, the N5550 isn’t quite as attractive as the 4-bay N4200 series, with all of its OLED screen goodness, but it’s suitable enough. But – most enterprises are going to want more than 5 bays, so more accurately it’s an SMB/SOHO product based on that and pricing.įor business environments, the fifth bay will commonly be used as a spare, automatically introduced to the RAID in the event of a drive death, while for SOHO, users may consider using higher RAID levels that take advantage of all five drives. Thecus considers the N5550 to be an ‘enterprise’ product because it includes a fifth drive bay, whereas all of its official SOHO/SMB products include only four. Users of one or two-year-old Thecus NAS products will notice similarities, so the bulk of what’s new is features that you’ve either been waiting for or just happen to stumble-upon. It also sports Thecus’ latest “OS”, dubbed ThecusOS 5.0. The N5550 (note the third 5) brings a faster CPU, more RAM, USB 3.0 and a general fine-tuning of things. To help usher in the fact that people can actually afford hard drives again, Thecus has brought to market a follow-up to its popular 5-bay offering, the N5500. That means that for a typical 4-drive setup using 2TB drives today, you can score 8TB for about $440 – much improved over the $800+ that the same density would have cost 10 months ago. Last fall, a WD Green 2TB could have been snatched for about $80 with a good sale, but today, you can expect to fork over about $110. Fortunately, prices have steadily come down over the past year, and while we’re not quite at pre-flood pricing, we do seem to have settled. Who wants to spend $500 or so on a quality NAS and then $1,000 for 8TB of storage? Not me. With the flooding that occurred in Thailand last fall, many who were planning on putting together a NAS had their plans side-swiped.