Thecus NAS With Intel Core i3-2120

Thecus Technology Corp. already has an 8 bay rackmount NAS, the N8200XXX featuring a quick Intel Atom processor. The N8900 fills a niche in the market and provides users with a large NAS. Before this, Thecus was already known for appliances such as the N8800SAS with SAS support and heavy-loaded hardware.

The N8900 uses USB3.0, HDMI output, and 10Gb Ethernet compatibility.

The Intel Core i3-2120 processor integrates 2 cores at 3.3GHz to match the N8900’s no less than 8GB of DDR3 memory. It has RAID operations, multitasking, reactive virtualized environments, and application serving.

The N8900 benefits from a Thecus feature: Dual DOM design. The DOM (Disk On Module) is the equivalent of the BIOS on a computer: if it fails or gets corrupted for any reason, all data can be lost forever. Thanks to Thecus Dual DOM design, there is a second DOM ready to replace or reprogram the first one. In this way, Thecus has reduced DOM failures by 67%.

A Design Focused on Flexibility
The N8900 embeds two USB 3.0 ports, audio output/input, and an HDMI connection. Those will also give users even more possibilities when writing their own modules thanks to the new Thecus software developer kit.

In addition, the N8900 is built with several free PCI-e extension slots (one 4-lane and two 8-lane slots). For instance, you can decide to add more USB 3.0 or eSATA slots. For companies with higher-end needs, you can choose to install a 10Gb Ethernet adapter, allowing you to use either traditional fiber or high-performance/low-cost base-T cables.

Speaking of flexibility, the N8900 is compatible with file system Ext3, Ext4, and XFS. There are also six modes of link aggregation supported for performance. It can be coupled with 6Gb SAS hard disks.