We track a lot of things claiming to be the
smallest or
thinnest this-or-that, but, when it comes to network-attached storage, we can't say as we've been breaking out our rulers all that often. So, when Thecus says its N0204 miniNAS is the world's smallest, we'll take them for their word. Little bigger than an external 3.5-inch drive enclosure, the N0204 actually sports room for two 2.5-inch drives, serving them up concatenated or in RAID 0 or 1 configurations. Despite its size it still offers the same functionality of many of the bigger boys, including the ability to act as an iTunes or DLNA server, print server, and webcam host. It even allows hot-swapping. Apparently the only thing it can't do is tell you when it'll release or how much it'll cost when it does. For that we'll just have to wait and see.
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posted Mar 31st 2009 9:26AM
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I think they might be wrong on the claim for the smallest, I have a Level One 2.5" NAS and it has a wireless zone too, little bigger than a 2.5" caddy
http://global.level1.com/product_d.php?id=311
Good find, I guess this makes the N0204 the worlds smallest RAID NAS?
http://img.hexus.net/v2/internationalevents/cebit2009/Day2/Thecus1-big.jpg
where did you buy that ?
Amazon $40
That actually looks rather interesting.
So you save space - somewhere, since a NAS can really go anywhere - and get to pay probably a shitload extra for 2.5" drives instead of 3.5".
Great.
buffalo linkstation mini is pretty damn small too and has a ton more of features..plus it doesent look like its been painted with dollar store paint either
Honestly, I think it looks sharp. And Thecus is a good name in the NAS market. I can't think of any reason why this isn't a sweet idea of a product to add to their line.
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Concatenated FTW!
Good job, Tim.