Recently, Asustek's sub-brand Huayun Technology introduced two dual-bay AS4002T and four-bay AS4004T home NAS.
Although dual-bay and quad-home NAS products are common on the market, both devices use the 10GBASE-T network interface based on the ARM architecture, which is rare on home NAS products.
The Asusus AS4000 Series, featuring the Marvell ARMADA 7020 dual-core Cortex A72 processor (88F7020), makes the Asus AS4000 Series one of the first ARMv8-based home / SOHO NAS products on the market.
In addition, more distinctive is that this NAS uses a full range of tool-free manual disassembly design, removal of the hard drive without screws, while hot-swappable, with 2GB of DDR4-2400 memory, in addition to 10GBASE-T port There are 2 1Gbps ports.
In terms of software, Hua Yun is continuously improving the capabilities of its operating system, Asustor Data Manager (ADM), and is currently a beta version with the latest additions of SSD cache and RAID cleanup, adding more features in the future.
AS4000 series will be listed later this quarter, the pricing has not yet announced, but outside the speculation price will be between the AS31 / 32 series and AS61 series, then the dual-plate AS4002T price should be 259 US dollars (1666RMB) to 290 US dollars (1866RMB), while the AS4004T is between $ 395 (2540RMB) and $ 460 (2960RMB).
If it is in this price range, then Huayun these two NAS is undoubtedly very competitive, but want to completely Fun Gigabit Ethernet, supporting the computer, router, speed and other accessories have to keep up with the 10 Gigabit speed Caixing .