Thecus N2810 NAS review

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Located at the backside we can see the ventilation hole, the unit is quite silent I must say, fan RPM is flexible depending on temperature and/or configurable fan preference. You can configure power saving and fan options in the software suite. There are connection options including USB 3.0 (two at the back, one in the front). The unit sports two Gigabit Ethernet ports which can be paired or used as fail-over.

  • Intel Celeron N3050 1.6GHz burst up to 2.16GHz Dual-Core
  • 2GB DDR3
  • RJ-45x2 : 10/100/1000 BASE-TX Auto MDI/MDI-X 
  • WOL supported (eth0)
  • USB 3.0 host port x3 (Front x1,Back x2) 
  • HDMI port (back x1)
  • 2 x SATA for internal
  • 48W Internal Power Supply
  • Thermal sensor on processor temperature
  • Battery-backed up system clock
  • Auto power on after shutdown due to power loss
  • Adjustable frequency alarm
  • Power button
  • Temperature: 0°C to 40°C (Operation)
  • Humidity: 0 ~ 80 % R.H. (Non-condensing)
  • 2bays Tower Metal Chassis
  • 146 x 102 x 213 (mm)/ 5.17 x 4.02 x 8.39 (in)

So connectivity wise you are covered as far as a NAS needs to go. At the backside we also see an HDMI port which can be used to hook into a telly. You can install XBMC/Kodi and use the unit as a media-center PC. At the front side, you can see a USB 3.0 connector on the lower left. There are also LED indicators for the operational status of the NAS. 

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The unit is capable of read speeds of roughly 115 MB/s and write speeds hover in the same region, this of course is dependant on your HDD read/write performance as well. You can double that if you use both Ethernet jacks, however that would require capable switches and clients (PCs) in your LAN infrastructure as well. I do wish 10Gbps LAN connectors would become a viable affordable alternative in the years to come as currently the Gigabit jacks and infrastructure are limiting NAS performance. E.g. the NAS and HDDs can be faster, yet Gigabit Ethernet is holding it back, it's your 101 bottleneck really. If you like to take it up a notch in terms of security, a hardware encryption engine is also available, expect that at the cost of loss in performance. The unit features read speeds of roughly 50 MB/s for encrypted data (AES256bit) providing an optimal combination of file security and system performance.
  

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HDDs are easily mounted in the tray with retention bars or, if preferred, with four screws. You slide them into the NAS unit, hot-spares and hot-swap are supported. So if one storage unit in your RAID array cluster fails, you may remove and replace the HDD with the NAS live.
  

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If we quickly look at the bottom we see four nice thick rubber feet/rests. Combined with the heavy weight of the NAS unit resonating noises are pretty much out of the question. The most noisy thing coming from the NAS unit will be the actual noise of the HDDs themselves.

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