THECUS miniNAS N0204 Pocket RAID Storage

by Thecus

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 3.5 x 2.5 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00285TVKK
• Item model number: N0204
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,596 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

The N0204 miniNAS - The world¿s smallest fully-featured NAS device that fits in the palm of your hand. Houses two 2.5-Inch SATA hard disks, providing up to 1TB of storage. Manage this storage with your choice of RAID 0, 1, and JBOD. The drive bays are hot-swappable and feature auto-rebuild. Comes with Thecus®¿ Nsync for remote replication & the Thecus® Backup Utility for total data security. With huge storage, RAID functionality and advanced data safeguards packed into a tiny device, the N0204 is in a class all its own. Tiny but mighty, the N0204 comes with many of the features and functionality possessed by larger NAS. The N0204 functions as a complete media hub with built-in iTunes server, photo web server & media server. With the built-in media server, you can watch videos, pictures & music in the N0204 by using any DLNA compliant media players. Using a USB web cam turns it into the world¿s tiniest home surveillance server, allowing you to preview, capture and schedule image snapshots up to 640x480. Supports both Windows and MAC OS operating systems and a whole new user friendly Windows Utility to set up and link the N0204 with your PC easily. Plug into virtually any network. Advanced energy-saving capabilities, the N0204 uses between 25~30% of the power vs. traditional two-bay NAS devices. Schedule power on/off for better power management. Whisper-quiet cooling, which means low temperatures and noise during operation. A USB 2.0 port in the front and one-touch copy allows you to copy a USB storage device to the N0204 with a single button press. You can also copy data from the N0204 to any USB disk. The N0204 supports USB printers, external hard disks, USB web cam & even works with USB WLAN adaptors, allowing you to give this tiny NAS device wireless capability. A complete NAS device in a form factor smaller than a paperback book, the N0204 miniNAS proves that great things do indeed come in tiny packages.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Intriquing Promise, disappointing reality, March 28, 2010

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GDC of Boston - See all my reviews

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I purchased the N0204 as a RAID1 NAS. I have been very satisfied with my Buffalo NAS (many years old, the only prolbem I every had was that fan failed several years ago, Buffalo was very helpful in describing how to fix it). It was time for a RAID1 box, and this box looked quite intriquing.

Installation is very frustrating. There is only one way to install this machine and if it doesn't work, you are dead. Instructions are very poor, and provide no help if things are not going well- on the other hand, if things are going well why would you even read the instructions?

Finally did get the install wizard to "see" the machine. BTW- I am using dynamic IP addressing, without trouble, although the install was so rocky that I wondered if a static IP address would have been better.

Unlike the Buffalo NAS, the proceedure to change the machine name is obscure. I could not get the included back-up utility to install. The browser based management application is their way or the highway- a number of directories established, apparently no way to delete or rename.

All in all, a good idea, very poor user interface.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very poor documentation, March 25, 2010

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U "U" (Atlanta, GA, USA) - See all my reviews

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Setup instructions were very poor.... to the point of non-existent. Requires a fixed IP address ti install the device but this is not indicated. Very frustrating indeed.

4.0 out of 5 stars Runs fine for me, January 18, 2011

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Crystal M. Martinez (Delavan, WI USA) - See all my reviews

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I'm an engineer, so I'm used to a lack of documentation, but I've been running this little guy on my desk to hold my email and technical documents for almost a year now without issue. I had no trouble with the setup and initially ran with DHCP but have since switched to a static IP so I can run shortcuts to certain folders. The updates, although infrequent, have added a new interface. I have had no issues with the 3 updates I've appled. I have yet to see another solution with as many options for the same price. Best suited for personal use for someone with some technical experience.