Asustor AS-604T

Zitat: There´s no denying the Asustor AS-604T is a very well featured and sturdily built NAS drive. Given its close facsimile to QNAP products, there appears to be little reason to choose the newcomer – except perhaps the issue of price. A comparable QNAP model could be the TS-469 which sells for around £600 in diskless form; the AS-604T can be found for closer to £400. If data write performance could be improved it´d be a closer contest, with the Asustor becoming even more attractive.

Zitat: This enclosure has a great interface and gives you plenty of power for your money

Zitat: + Hervorragende Geschwindigkeit + Sehr ansprechendes Design + Gutes Webinterface + Gute HTPC-Funktionalitäten - Lautstärke des Netzteillüfters - Preis - Noch keine App für Cloud-Zugriff verfügbar

Zitat: MSreco_highend ASUSTOR, which is a young company founded in 2011 succeeded to bring to the market quite quickly NAS devices, which are surprisingly advanced and sport features which we haven’t seen at other established manufacturers like Synology: a LED display, frontal controls or HDMI port for audio/video output. The NAS chassis is solid and comes with an integrated power supply, which makes the unit a little heavy, even without HDDs installed. The AS-604T model is equipped with an Atom D2700 processor at 2.13GHz and 1GB of RAM. The RAM quantity is user upgradeable so we can add one more module for a total quantity of 2GB or 3GB. ASUSTOR has used a single 120mm fan, which is quite silent, but not as much as we have seen on the DS413 and DS412+ units from Synology (a faint buzz can be heard, but this noise would be completely canceled by the sound of the HDDs which we’ll install inside the bays). Thanks to the Boxee package, we can transform the NAS into a fully-featured Media Center and for remote we can either use a regular mouse/keyboard or the software meant for mobile devices, which is offered for free. With the help of the frontal buttons, we can initialize the drives by simply using the display and without using a computer. However, the web user interface is not as advanced as DSM, but the software team is working to continuously improve it. We can find the stock configuration with 1GB ram of the AS-604T online for about 600 Euros, while the Synology DS412+, which has comparable performance, can be found for between 530 and 550 Euros. We feel that if the AS-604T prices would drop a bit, it could become a serious competitor for the other manufacturers.

Zitat: Asustor liefert mit dem AS-604T ein überzeugendes Erstlingswerk: Im NAS-Betrieb punktet es durch den Ruhezustand, ein vielfältiges App-Angebot und das simple Bedienkonzept. Über die eingebaute HDMI-Schnittstelle spielt es außerdem als erstes NAS auch hochaufgelöste 1080p-Videos ruckelfrei. Beim Betrieb im Wohnzimmer direkt am TV stören allerdings die lauten Lüftergeräusche.