Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Review Asus NAS-M25

Asus M25 is a NAS-network attached storage (NAS) which has a fairly compact size. NAS was performed with a design that looks elegant with a white bandage around his share. Asus NAS-M25 uses a plastic material that is thick around the outside so that makes it quite sturdy.

NAS output Asus has a minimalist design. At the front, this NAS has two buttons and three indicator lights. The buttons serve to turn on and off the NAS, as well as to perform an instant backup. In addition, there is also one USB ports on the front to attach additional storage media like external hard drives or flash disk.

NAS-Asus M25 has a pretty interesting specifications. NAS is equipped with a Marvell processor speed of 1.2 GHz with 512 MB of DDR2 memory. NAS is able to accommodate two hard drives with capacities of each of up to 3 TB so that if the total, the capacity to be obtained can reach 6 TB. NAS has three storage modes, namely JBOD, RAID0 and RAID1. There are also features auto-rebuild the RAID1 mode, this feature can help restore your data if there is a damaged hard drive and must be replaced. Asus NAS-M25 supports two types of filesystems, which is EXT2 and EXT3.

Using the Asus NAS-M25 is quite easy. The first time, you must install its first hard drive by opening the door of the existing hard disk space on the front. Then plug it into your computer or network. To access the control panel, you can access it through a web-browser by entering the IP address of this NAS (default 192.168.1.100).

When accessing the control panel, you'll get the main page that contains two options, ie options to configure, or to access the media server. As I entered the Configuration menu, you will be asked to perform storage formats as well as set the desired mode. After that, you can create new folders and connect to the network.

Spesification Asus RT-N56U
Hard Drive Interface
SATA

Number of Hard Drive
2 internal + 3 via USB (the standard package does not include hard drive)

Hard Drive Size
3.5 "

Port
3 x USB
1 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet (LAN)

Storage Mode
RAID0, RAID1, JBOD

Dimension
211 mm x 129 mm x 120 mm

Weight
970 kg (without adapter)

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