Asustor: 2-Bay Nimbustor-2 AS5202T and 4-Bay Nimbustor-4 AS5304T Desktop NAS

Asustor Inc. announces t two NAS devices, the two bay Nimbustor-2 and the four bay Nimbustor-4.

Nimbustor series are known by their original model numbers. The Nimbustor-2 is also known as the AS5202T, while the Nimbustor-4 is known as the AS5304T.

As5202T front and rear

The Nimbustor line represents a departure from generic model numbers to more accurately describe the company’s products that store data in a personal cloud device.

The Nimbustor-2 uses Intel Corp.‘s Gemini Lake dual core Celeron processor clocked at 2.0GHz while the Nimbustor-4 uses a quad-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz.

These NAS come with 2GB and 4GB of DDR4 RAM respectively. Gemini Lake family improves performance by 30% while also lowering power consumption by 40%. Both types of CPU boost to 2.7GHz and 2.5GHz respectively, allowing better performance in various tasks. The Nimbustor series come equipped with two 2.5-GbE ports, making it firm’s fastest Intel-based NAS to date. When equipped with SSDs, it combined with the two 2.5GbE ports brings fast performance.

AS5304T front and rear

The Nimbustor-2 and 4 inherit the aesthetics of the AS4002T and AS4004T. The diamond-cut magnetic panel is resistant to dust and helps protect HDDs inside from impact. It also retains the same installation process from the AS4002T and AS4004T, which features removable tool-less HDD caddies.

The Nimbustor also introduces a red and black e-sports aesthetic to appeal to tech enthusiasts and a HEVC/VP9 10bit Profile2 encoding engine which reduces CPU usage for smoother video streaming and playback. Plex Pass is supported as well as third-party media players to enjoy 4K HDR on the HDMI 2.0a port.

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The Nimbustor-2 and 4 come with ADM 3.4. NAS OS and with a brand theme for enthusiasts as well as a version of Takeasy. The newest Takeasy can download videos from subscribed YouTube and Twitch channels automatically.

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These NAS are also for iSCSI applications, giving greater options for applications that do not support network drives because iSCSI drives appear like normal internal HDDs as well as increased stability compared to network drives. The backup and restore features of ADM 3.4 are better than before with the introductions of Snapshot Center and EZ Sync. The Nimbustor’s hardware gives performance to multimedia applications, including Asustor Portal, Plex and Roon Server. Nimbustor-2 and 4 are backed by a 3-year warranty.

Specs:

Nimbustor 2 CPU: Celeron J4005 at 2.0 GHz dual core CPU (2.7GHz turbo)

Nimbustor 4 CPU: Celeron J4105 at 1.5 GHz quad core CPU (2.5GHz turbo)
Nimbustor 2: 2GB DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM. 8GB maximum
Nimbustor 4: 4GB DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM. 8GB maximum
Two 2.5GbE ports
Video Output: One HDMI 2.0a
Nimbustor 2 single port read speeds of 283MB/s and write speeds of 283MB/s
Nimbustor 4 single port read speeds of 283MB/s and write speeds of 282MB/s
Nimbustor 2 link aggregated read speeds of 563MB/s and write speeds of 561MB/s
Nimbustor 4 link aggregated read speeds of 564MB/s and write speeds of 551MB/s
Three USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports
Two rear USB 3.2 Gen 1 port
One front USB 3.2 Gen 1 port
Supports hard drive hot swapping
Tool-free hard drive caddies
Supports AES 256-bit hardware encryption
Supports Btrfs snapshots
Supports SSD Caching
Supports EZ Sync
RAID 0, 1, single drive and JBOD supported on Nimbustor-2.
RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, single drive and JBOD supported on Nimbustor -4.
Supports 2.5” and 3.5” drives up to 14TB
Supports system migration
Supports MyArchive
Supports Wake On WAN and Wake on LAN

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May 9, 2019 | Press Release