Thecus M3800

    A three bay bring your own drive NAS system sold by Thecus, the M3800 is largely billed as a multimedia center, intended specifically for home use in storing media rather than corporate, small office, or home office data.  As such it has a number of features a lot of NAS products out there today lack, especially media out ports.  The M3800 HDMI, component and AV out connections, allowing the device to be linked up directly to a home theater to display media.  It even plays HD up to 1080P, allowing full use of the most modern high-definition televisions.

    For more information on performance and a full hardware listing, please scroll down.

    Whether or not they are intended as media devices, most NAS hardware include significant RAID support, and the M3800 is no exception.  In this case, RAID 0, 1, 5, and JBOD are all supported right out of the box, giving a variety of potential methods to protect your media from hardware failure on the part of one of the drives.  Hot-swapping is also supported, so the drives can be replaced quickly and easily in case of either hardware failure or if the user is interested in upgrading their storage capacity by replacing smaller hard drives with higher capacity models.

    When it comes to data management, the M3800 performs quite admirably.  Independent testing puts the device's reading speed in the mid 50's MB/s range, while writing speeds hovered around the low 40's range.

    Hardware specifications follow, taken from the official Thecus website.

    Item Spec
    Processor AMD LX800
    Chipset CS5536
    System Memory 256MB DDR SODIMM
    LAN Interface RJ-45x2 : 10/100/1000 BASE-TX Auto MDI/MDI-X
    USB Interface USB 2.0 host port x2(Front x1, Back x1)
    eSATA Interface eSATA port X1 (Back)
    LED indicator
  • Power(Blue)
  • HDD1 Failed/Activity(Red/Orange)
  • HDD2 Failed/Activity(Red/Orange)
  • HDD3 Failed/Activity(Red/Orange)
  • WAN (Link : Green; Activity : Orange), WOL supoorted
  • LAN (Link : Green; Activity : Orange), WOL supoorted
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    LCD Module 2*16 character display with 4 buttons
    Power supply External 12V 96 Watts AC power adaptor
    Disk interface SATA x3 via backplane
    Thermal/Fan control
  • Thermal sensor on HDD and processor temperature
  • Temperature controlled system FAN speed
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    Real-time clock Battery backup system clock
    IR Receiver 38Hz frequency controlled by Micro Processor
    Buzzer Frequency controllable
    Chassis Metal chassis
    Environment
  • Temperature : 5C to 40 C
  • Humidity : 0 ~ 80 % R.H. (Non-condensing)
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    Power Consumption
  • Standby mode: 40W
  • Full Loading: 60W with 1.5TB Seagate * 3 HDD installed
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    Sound Pressure Level
  • Without HDD: 18.8 dB(A)
  • With HDD: 24.0 dB (A) with 1.5TB Seagate * 3 HDD installed
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    Safety CE, FCC,BSMI, C-Tick, VCCI, RoHS Compliant
    IO Interfaces
    AUDIO/VIDEO OUTPUT
  • HDMI Audio/Video output
  • Component Output
  • AV Output
  • S/PDIF optical Output
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    System Information
    Video Format WMV9(no DRM), WMVHD(no DRM), AVI, VOB, TS
    Codec XVID, H.264, VC-1
    Resolution Up to 1920 x 1080i, 1920 x 1080P
    Audio Format WMA, AAC, PCM, M4A(no DRM)
    Codec AC3, WMA, WMAPRO, PCM, LPCM, BDLPCM(Blueray LPCM)
    Dimension 158mm(H) 173mm(W) 218mm(L)