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In this day and age, the total amount of information that we have in our slew of devices can add up to staggering values, so much so that it is virtually impossible to keep track of it all after a while. You would need plenty of discipline as well as enough resources and physical space to start cataloging those 1TB hard drives by the computer. Well, cheap and feature rich storage devices are always in demand, so you might want to check out the Thecus N2310 NAS that has just arrived in the US as part of your potential purchases.

Just what kind of goodies will the Thecus N2310 NAS bring to the table? For starters, it will come with a gigabit Ethernet port, a single USB 2.0 port, and of course, just to keep up with the rest of the times, one USB 3.0 port to go. Needless to say, those would be the kind of features that we would have expected it to arrive right out of the box, including a built-in BitTorrent client and RAID support. One good thing about the Thecus N2310 NAS would be its energy efficiency, where Thecus claims it will sip a mere 5W of power. If you were to translate it to the total amount of electricity that you had to pay for it, it would cost a mere $5.03 annually on average to run it at home. $170 certainly sounds like an absolute bargain for the Thecus N2310 NAS.

Thecus N2310 NAS Sips On Just 5W Of Power original content from Ubergizmo.

Thecus is proud to announce their latest 2-bay NAS server, the N2560. Powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom SoC CE5335 dual-core processor, the device is packed with a 2GB DDR3 RAM, two SATA HDD bays, T-OnTheGo mobile access, Gigabit Ethernet, two USB 2.0 ports, a USB 3.0 port, an HDMI port and supports for multiple RAID setups (0,1) as well as JBOD. Pricing and release date are still unknown at the moment. [Thecus]

There’s been more than a few Atom-based storage servers. Most of them either have to lean on the same Atom processors you’d usually get with nettops, though, which makes them less than ideal for media tasks than a chip dedicated to the job. Intel has just launched a new platform that might be a better fit for home network storage. New NAS arrays from Asustor, Synology, Thecus and others (none yet pictured here) all revolve around a dual-core Atom CE5300 system-on-chip that’s better-optimized for media processing duties: it can stream video across the network to multiple devices at once, and can automatically downscale video to accommodate smaller screens. The small chip contributes to a relatively small price at the same time, with NAS boxes starting around $299. Not everyone can suddenly justify a dedicated media server in the home just because the CE5300 is an option, but those that do may at least get more for their money.

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Source: Intel

Thecus is proud to announce their newest 7-Bay NAS server, the N7510. Running on the new ThecusOS 5.0, the device is equipped with an LCM display, an Intel Atom processor, a 2GB DDR3 RAM, seven SATA 3.5″/2.5″ HDD bays, McAfee Antivirus Protection, two USB 3.0 ports, an eSATA port, an HDMI port and supports for multiple RAID setups (0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50) as well as JBOD. Pricing info is still unknown at the moment. [Thecus]