Thecus N2310 Soho/Home NAS Server Review

Storage/NAS by stefan @ 2014-08-19

This time we will review an entry-level NAS from Thecus, with an AMCC APM 86491 800MHz processor which is paired with 512MB of DDR3. The device works on the latest ThecusOS version and for storage expansion we have two USB ports, one of which is 2.0 and the other USB 3.0.

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NAS Initialization

The utility Thecus uses for the N2310 is a bit different than the one we have found with the N4560; the software will first detect the NAS even during the initialization period; what we have found peculiar is the fact that we have succeeded to detect it only when we were using the PC on wired LAN, while on wireless it was not showing up:

 

 

 

Next we will be prompted to specify if the utility should use the Self-RAID Creation process or if we should proceed with this manually:

 

 

 

If data is found on the disk/disks we have inserted, the NAS will prompt in order to take the necessary precautions:

 

 

 

The Intelligent NAS software will then go on with the setup procedure:

 

 

 

As with other brands, we are proposed to create our own “Thecus” ID:

 

 

 

The necessary info must be entered up in order to continue the setup process:

 

 

 

The final setup step implies logging in to the web interface:

 

 

 

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