The TopTower N6850, N8850 and N10850 are Thecus’ new top-end tower format NAS with six, eight and ten hot-swap bays, supporting 3.5″ SATA drives.All the three models have a HDMI output at the back along with a MIC input, line in and audio out. There are two hot swappable system fans and a touch panel for basic operations on the system without a computer and 256-bit AES encryption support for the RAID volumes.
There are iOS and Android apps available for monitoring and administration, uploading / downloading / streaming of multimedia files and file management. Supported cloud backup services include Dropbox, ElephantDrive, Amazon S3 and Acronis. The firmware also ships with McAfee antivirus.
Price: The TopTower N6850, N8850 and N10850 are all scheduled to ship in May 2012 with MSRPs of $1700, $2145 and $2480
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