Testseek.com have collected 47 expert reviews of the Origin Storage Thecus N5550 5-Bay and the average rating is 81%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Origin Storage Thecus N5550 5-Bay.
July 2014
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The editors liked
Five drive bays
Well priced
Stacks of features to play with
The editors didn't like
Needs clearer and more in-depth documentation
Build quality doesn't feel great
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Published: 2014-09-05, Author: Dan , review by: apcmag.com
Abstract: This is a great one for serial downloaders and media aficionados, with multiple app choices for usenet, BitTorrent, media serving and playback and even download automation via Sick Beard an Couch Potato. There's CrashPlan, Dropbox, OwnCloud, TrueCrypt and...
Five drive bays, Well priced, Stacks of features to play with
Needs clearer and more in-depth documentation, Build quality doesn't feel great
There is plenty to like about the Thecus N5550. It has five drive bays yet it doesn't cost the Earth, and it can be almost endlessly configured via extra modules from Thecus and third parties. However, it's a device that does require a fair bit of tinkeri...
I hate starting out final thoughts to a review with pricing, but the Thecus N5550 is really strong in this area. The rest of the conclusion will build off the points I make about pricing. I put together a little chart (above) that shows all of the p...
Published: 2014-11-07, Author: Jason , review by: bigbruin.com
Fast, Quiet, Can be used as a media server, as well as a media player thanks to audio/video outputs onboard, Good value
No hibernation mode available to reduce power consumption, Single USB 3.0 port isn't in a very practical location, User interface and add on modules are not the strong suit of Thecus NAS servers, Please drop by the Bigbruin.com Forum and feel free t
The main thing that impressed me about the Thecus N5550 5-Bay NAS server was the transfer rates it was able to put up. Reads and writes consistently topped 100MB/s, and many times it was closing in on 120MB/s. You definitely have the speed to handle anyth...
Published: 2014-07-15, Author: Marc , review by: techwarelabs.com
Abstract: SOHO or SMB NAS devices have become quite popular these days, with their rich feature set, low cost, and ease of adding large amounts of storage to your network. There are many companies that vie in this market segment, such as QNAP, Synology, LaCie, Info...
Published: 2014-07-10, Author: Tom , review by: modders-inc.com
With multiple people living at home having a large storage pool is almost a need vs. a want especially if the data is important. With the N5550 the options on how you configure that pool depends on your needs. If the data isn't important and you want the ...
Good Build Quality (Leaving Out The Front Door), Very Good Read/Write Performance, 5 Drive Bays, 2GB DDR3 RAM (Expandable To 8GB By Patching The FW), 2 Gigabit Ethernet Ports (With Link Aggregation), 5 USB Ports (1xUSB 3.0 / 4xUSB 2.0), eSATA Ports, HDMI/
Power Consumption, SATA II, Single USB 3.0 Port,
Thecus has been around for almost 10 years now but until the moment we got their N5550 in our hands we didn't think they could come close to QNAP, Synology and ASUSTOR both in terms of performance and operating system usability always based on what we had...
Published: 2014-06-29, Author: Christopher , review by: neowin.net
Abstract: Let's face it, most of the data we want to store on a centralized NAS device is media of some sort: Pictures, music, or videos. If you only have a large collection of Word documents, you can probably back them up to a USB thumbdrive and don't need teraby...
NAS (Network Attached Storage) units have been growing in popularity over the years, due to their ease of use in providing a lot of storage in a compact enclosure, while making redundancy a simple matter of replacing drives when warned. With the HTPC cont...
