Thecus TopTower Lineup: High-End Enterprise NAS Systems in a Tower Form Factor
by Ganesh T S on April 12, 2012 5:05 AM EST- Posted in
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NAS vendors in the high-end enterprise space often reserve the more powerful CPU configurations for their rackmount models. A case in point is QNAP's Xeon based 200TB+ storage rack solution which we saw at CES. Thecus is one of the very few vendors (if not the only one) to adopt the full range of Intel CPUs in their tower form factor systems.
Their previous generation enterprise tower models used Atom, Celeron and Core2-Duo CPUs. They topped out at 7-bays. Today, Thecus added some more members to update this lineup. The new members are the TopTower N6850, N8850 and N10850. They come with 6, 8 and 10 SATA bays respectively and run Thecus's custom NAS operating system. The table below compares the three models and the various features.
| Thecus TopTower Lineup Comparison | |||
| Name | N6850 | N8850 | N10850 |
| Description | 6-bay desktop | 8-bay desktop | 10-bay desktop |
| CPU | Intel® Pentium® G620 2.6Ghz | Intel® Core™ i3 2120 3.3GHz | Intel® Xeon® E3-1225 3.1GHz |
| System Memory | 2GB DDR3 | 4GB DDR3 | 4GB DDR3 |
| HDD Interface | 6 x SATA III | 8 x SATA III | 10 x SATA III |
| Ethernet | 2 x RJ-45 [ Intel 82574L 10/100/1000 BASE-TX Auto MDI/MDI-X ] | 2 x RJ-45 [ Intel 82574L 10/100/1000 BASE-TX Auto MDI/MDI-X ] | 2 x RJ-45 [ Intel 82574L 10/100/1000 BASE-TX Auto MDI/MDI-X ] |
| USB Host Slots | 4 x USB 2.0 / 4 x USB 3.0 | 4 x USB 2.0 / 4 x USB 3.0 | 4 x USB 2.0 / 4 x USB 3.0 |
| PCIe Expansion | 2 x PCIe x8 [ 10 GbE PCIe Card Compatible ] | 2 x PCIe x8 [ 10 GbE PCIe Card Compatible ] | 2 x PCIe x8 [ 10 GbE PCIe Card Compatible ] |
| Power Supply | 80 PLUS Single Power Supply | 80 PLUS Redundant Power Supply | 80 PLUS Redundant Power Supply |
| Dimensions (HxWxD) | 320.4 x 215 x 282.6 (mm) | 380.4 x 235 x 282.6 (mm) | 435.4 x 235 x 282.6 (mm) |
| Supported RAID Modes | RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and JBOD | RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 and JBOD | RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 and JBOD |
All the three models have a HDMI output at the back along with a MIC input, Line In and Audio Out. There are two hot swappable system fans and a touch panel for basic operations on the system without a computer. We have 256-bit AES encryption support for the RAID volumes.
There are iOS and Android apps available for monitoring and administration, uploading / downloading / streaming of multimedia files and file management. Supported cloud backup services include Dropbox, ElephantDrive, Amazon S3 (not at launch, but in a later firmware update) and Acronis. The firmware also ships with McAfee antivirus (compared to the open source ClamAV based solutions from other vendors).
The TopTower N6850, N8850 and N10850 are all schduled to ship in May 2012 with MSRPs of $1700, $2145 and $2480 respectively.
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Ganesh, can you check with Thecus on whether these support DLNA? Can I stream from them to my Smart TV or Roku? These would seem to be great high-quality storage solutions for a whole home HD media solution.ganeshts - Thursday, April 19, 2012 - link
Yes, I will make it a point to check with them. We should have a review unit in-house pretty soon, so I can test it out also :)Karen Reed - Thursday, May 16, 2013 - link
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