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First Looks: Thecus N7700PRO

By on October 15, 2009 in Hardware, Network Attached Storage, News

 

Thecus Technology is one of those companies who focus purely on storage.  From Direct Attached Storage devices, Multimedia devices, and from SOHO to Enterprise Network Attached Storage Devices.  Just announced today is the latest member of their Enterprise solutions, the N7700PRO NAS device.

N7700PROfront thumb First Looks: Thecus N7700PRO 

With 7 bays of goodness, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and JBOD capabilities, there can’t be much to not like.  Combining this array of storage flexibility is the horsepower to go with it:

With the N7700PRO, blistering performance is the name of the game. At its core is an Intel® Core 2 Duo CPU and a whopping 4GB of high-speed DDR2 800 memory, making it the most powerful NAS unit available. In fact, with its PCI-e slot, the N7700PRO can reach data transfer speeds of over 300MB/s by adding a PCI-e 1Gb Ethernet adapter! All of this raw power easily manipulates large amounts of data – perfect for the N7700PRO’s seven 3.5” SATA drive bays that can accommodate up to 14TB of storage. Need even more storage at your disposal? With its stackable feature, you can connect up to five N7700PROs together and easily manage them all via a master unit. The N7700PRO is even compatible with iSCSI initiators and supports iSCSI thin provisioning for added performance and flexibility.

No information on pricing, but since this NAS device is the new top dog in the Thecus product line, it won’t be cheap.

N7700PROopen thumb First Looks: Thecus N7700PRO

One sweet looking unit.  I have got to get me one of these (items to try out!)

More Info: Thecus N7700PRO


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Hello. I’m from the heartland of the U.S. Lots of corn and beans, although Iowa is a lot more than just farmland. It also has a few computer enthusiasts (no, not me!). I’ve been around PCs since I got my 1st PC XT aloooong time ago. WGS is one of the first sites I found centered around WHS. And the best. Every once in awhile, I do get away from the KB and enjoy time with and my wife and our 4 kids. And I do have a day job.
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  • JohnCz

    Cool. I look forward to seeing WHS run on this. How can Windows Home Server take advantage of the Disk-on-Module?

  • GeirK

    <qoute>the N7700PRO can reach data transfer speeds of over 300MB/s by adding a PCI-e 1Gb Ethernet adapter! </qoute>

    How can it get 300MB/s on 1Gb ethernet? When the maximum transfer speed of 1Gb is about 119MB/s (theoretic)?

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/urmaster urmaster

      Hehe I think a mistake on the manufacturers part. They confused internal transfer rates with network rates.

      • K.Rock

        I think it is supposed to be listed as 10GbE…
        Making the theoretic limit of 1250MB/s

        My current 1Gb on my WHS maxes out at 74.5MB/s. Basically at this point it is purely bottle necked at disk speed.

        • http://www.intensedebate.com/people/urmaster urmaster

          That was my first thought too, but the manufactures website only lists gigabit. It is 10GbE i checked a third party.

        • GeirK

          Still, who have a 10GbE switch? :)

  • Tom

    Sorry im new to this. How would I install WHS onto this machine. I have the WHS OEM.

  • Tom

    Can WHS be installed on this machine?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/tezzer tezzer

    Not easily, but I have heard of WHS being installed on NAS drives – usually the processors are lacking sufficient power.

    • Tom

      Cheers Terry. I'll go for the HP then and save some cash.

  • PxxCxx

    Can this server be installed with OpenFiler?

  • http://twitter.com/eaegis @eaegis

    The N7700PRO has its own independent NAS O/S and hence does not require or allow for other O/S install like OpenFiler or WHS.