Thecus N5550 5-Bay Home NAS Review
Test System & Drive Setup
Before we look at the numbers, here is a brief glance at the test system that was used. All testing was done on a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. All benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running.
Intel Z77 Test Platform
The Intel Z77 platform that we used to test the WD My Passport Edge portable hard drive was running the ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe motherboard with BIOS 0607 that came out on 7/27/2012. The Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1866MHz memory kit was set to 1866MHz with 1.5v and 9-10-9-27 1T memory timings. Intel HD Graphics 4000 were used with driver 2875.
When we did NAS testing we used the Thecus N5550 NAS Server with firmware v 2.03.08. A Netgear WNDR4500 N900 wireless router was used that supports gigabit ethernet.
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Processor |
Intel Core i7-3770K |
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Motherboard |
ASUS P8Z77-I | Click Here | |||
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Memory |
16GB Corsair Vengeance | Click Here | |||
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Video Card |
Intel HD 4000 |
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Hard Drive |
Kingston HyperX 480GB |
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Cooling |
CoolIt Eco II 140mm |
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Power Supply |
Corsair AX650 Gold |
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Operating System |
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit |
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Detailed HDD Information with HD Tune Pro 5.00:
The drive we are testing uses firmware version 80.00A80.
The WD Red 3TB drive has 2.72TB available to the user in Windows. The reason that the drive isn’t exactly 3TB is due to the change in measure from GB (1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes) to GiB (1GiB = 1,073,741,824). Let’s build a RAID Array!
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