NAS boxes are now another machine that appears set to eat into computer retail sales, vying between entire the other gadgets out there that claim to be capable to do what a Computer does, just faster, simpler or with without hassle. The recent crop of NAS boxes are commonly mini, low-power computers to start with, though, but with the advantage that they have been planned from the ground up to function as autonomously and discretely as possible, focusing on a choose number of tasks.


Being a individual-bay NAS box, the NSA310 is not vying for a fight with the RAID or iSCSI-touting double bay monsters we have appeared at currently, such as Synology's DS211+. In fact it supports neither of these things (strictly talking it does support RAID 1 if you hook up a second hard disk to the outer eSATA port), so unless you have your information backed up elsewhere, this is not a machine that extends anything in the way of redundancy.


Characteristics-wise, it is fairly thin on the ground in common equated to more costly example - the enclosure itself does not look particularly fresh or innovative and is skilled with the common small cooling fan we are utilized to on these

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kind of products. The insides are pretty spartan also, and in conditions of other charactersitics, there is no Universal Serial Bus 3, Double LAN, multitasking OS-style user interface, surveillance support, WiFi dongle support or compatibility with online cloud backup services.


In conditions of specification, though, the NSA310 is not completely deficient. A 1.2GHz central processing unit mixed with 256MB DDR2 memory should suffice for dealing with what the unit is evidently construct for - streaming your videos, music and pictures over your network.


The NSA310 is cognate to a media streamer, with break consumers interfaces which permit you to show pictures and videos within a web application in your browser. That is where the similarity ends though - there no WDTV-style link in with your Television for example, just the common DLNA and UPnP support.


More on these characteristics in second, but it is clear from the outset that this is where Zyxel has expenditure most of its time with the NSA310. In the way of outer ports, there is front and rear Universal Serial Bus 2 slots and a rear eSATA port. The old support USB flash drives, storage card readers and outer hard disks.