Zyxel NAS542 RAM 1 GB

In the arena of network equipment for home use, the products of the Taiwanese company ZyXel are a success. A tasty offer from her in the segment of NAS servers is a model with serial number "542", positioned as a key link when deploying your own home server.

Quartet of slots

The Zyxel NAS542 storage comes with four HDD bays. They can be combined into different RAID arrays (0, 1, 5, 10) or work in "extended" JBOD mode, which involves creating a single disk partition from several drives. Information is written on them sequentially, as each one is filled. But SATA 3 support was not implemented in the model, which is why data exchange takes place at a slower speed of the SATA 2 standard (up to 2.4 Gbps).

Comfortable work

Applications running on the device can be viewed, managed and simultaneously launched in different windows via the NSM5.2 network interface. Working with multimedia files that are stored on the drives of the NAS server is also offered from a smartphone or tablet thanks to ZyXel zCloud technology. From computers — at the expense of ownCloud. Separately, the ZyXel NAS542 was equipped with a built-in SD card reader.

Flexible access

Of the minuses of the model, they note the constantly high load on the processor, in the role of which the “dual-core” ARM Cortex-A9 is used, backed up by 1 GB of RAM. The NAS server interface shelf has two LAN ports with a bandwidth of up to 1 Gbps and a trio of USB 3.2 gen1 connection connectors for quick file backup. The device captivates with democratic cost and flexibility of multi-platform access to stored information in the local network.