Thecus n5200 latest firmware
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Thecus N5200 is a high-performance Network Attached Storage ( NAS a box where you install hard disk drives to make them available to your network, basically a small yet powerful file server for your home or office. The reviewed model allows the installation of up five hard disk drives, supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and JOB, featuring three USB ports, one e SATA port and two Gigabit Ethernet ports. How is the performance of Thecus N5200 compared to other NAS boxes? Check it out. Figure 1: Thecus N5200 NAS. With a box like this you can solve two basic problems on your home or office. First, it provides a central location for file storage. Usually on small home/office networks file sharing is achieved by sharing folders on computers and the computer that has the files you want must be turned on in order for you to access them. While on home environments there is almost no performance issues, on offices performance may be an issue as well, especially with we are talking about huge files (such as the ones manipulated by graphic design studios) being accessed by more than one user. If you are working afterhours and the user of that computer has already left and put a password on his or her computer, you may find yourself in trouble. The second advantage of NAS boxes is that they usually also work as a printer server. On a typical home/office network if the printer isn’t connected to an external device that is working as a print server (some broadband routers have this capability) then the computer where the printer is attached to must be turned on all the times if you want to print documents. Almost all NAS boxes offers at least one USB port where you can attach your printer and configure the box to work as a print server, not requiring an extra computer to be turned on for you to be able to print your hardcopies. You can also download pictures from your digital.
Possible alternatives to Thecus NAS firmware? As anybody reading this forum and the other one will have no doubt noticed, there appears to be an undeniable pattern emerging with successive NAS firmware revisions which fail to live up to expectation and almost appear to be getting progressively worse, at least over the past year or so that I'm aware of. A quick read of the various threads and you notice these issues fall into several general categories. Failure to correct bugs listed in the release notes as 'fixed'. Failure to address longstanding issues of broken (non core) functionality.( Lately) A high probability of rendering the NAS useless, requiring the user to find their own workaround if they would like to see their data anytime soon. (this bug is reportedly still alive and well after three successive updates - unacceptable by any standard). Basic screwups in the implementation of login authentication code, allowing a large surface area for attack. As well as one user who took a look at the V3.xx code and reported it to be bloated and amateurish, or words to that effect. The cute slogan Founded in 2004, Thecus brings decades of R use the lower one. As we have shown, the unit is a small computer. Thus you need to wait until it has loaded its operating system in order to be able to use it. Thecus N5200 will emit one beep after you turn it on and another beep after it has loaded its operating system and it is ready for use. The unit comes pre-configured to use IP address. The use of a fixed IP address has its advantages and disadvantages. The main disadvantage is that your local network must be in the.x range for you to be able to find the unit and configure it. If your router configured your network to the.x or.x (or similar) range you will have to change this. Also, you will have to make sure that no computer is using address, which unfortunately wasn’t our case: our Linksys router default configuration is to assign IPs starting at, so we had our computer using the same IP address as the NAS box and, because of that, we couldn’t reach it. The solution was simply entering the router’s control panel and change the option called “ Starting IP Address” from to. This made our PC to get a lower address, resolving the conflict. On the other hand, the advantage of using a fixed IP address is that it will never change and thus all configurations you make on the client PCs will never have to be changed in order to access the file server. You, however, can configure N5200 to get an IP address from your DHCP server (i.e., your broadband router though we don’t recommend this (this is done at Network, WAN). Solving this initial issue we.