Thecus N5200 NAS Review
Conclusions
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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.