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Located at the backside we can see the ventilation hole, quite silent and it will power on/off depending on temperature. The chassis measures in at 22.8 x 18.9 x 15.3 centimeters. Inside the NS4600 is a mini-PC really. It's based on the Intel Tolapai x86-compatible processor (Pentium M) clocked at 600MHz with a 11W TDP. To facilitate everything smoothly there is a memory partition as well, 256 megabytes of DDR2 SDRAM.

Connectivity wise you'll have a standard amount of  options. All the way top to the left is the power on/off switch. If you like to force a power down of the unit, hold that one for 5 seconds. Then two USB 2.0 ports, eSATA and of course a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port.

Flipped like a turtle on its back, we see a small hinge allowing access to the what seems to be a notebook power adapter. The option for using an external power adapter (12V/8.33A)  is a little trivial but seems to work well, and can be easily swapped out and replaced should it ever fail.

Here we have the drive cage, all the way in the back we see PCB mounted SATA connectors. You can insert four HDDs

The four hard drives will be configured in a RAID array; there is support for three RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 10. However, even if all four drives are inserted, the SmartStor NS4600 external hard drive only allows you to treat them as one volume. You can't configure the four drives in two or more separate volumes or in multiple RAID arrays making your RAID options a little limited.