ADM is really impressive it’s got a clean UI and is extremely fast, responsive, and well-organized.Īsustor ADM 2.2 user interface with Settings app launchedĪll of the usual content access services are available including CIFS (with Active Directory support), AFP (with Time Machine support), NFS, FTP, WebDAV, HTTP, MySQL, SSH, and rsync.ĪDM provides a number of applications pre-installed: There’s the Download Center for BitTorrent, FTP, and HTTP downloads, File Explorer and FTP Explorer for managing content on the NAS, an iTunes Server (with AirPlay support and iOS remote pairing), Surveillance Center with 4 channel live monitoring (the number of channels can be increased by purchasing a separate license), the SoundsGood music organizer, Takeasy (a downloader for videos on YouTube, Vimeo, YouKu, etc.), a UPnP Media Server, and a VPN client and server.īut wait! There’s more! Currently 126 additional apps can be installed, managed, and updated through the App Central application. The Settings utility is accessed through the system’s Linux-based Asustor Data Master (ADM) Web-based windowed operating system. Configuration is very straightforward so I won’t bore you with the details but I will note that you can even set the brightness of the LED indicators that show status, LAN, disk, power, and backup (there’s even a night mode, useful if, as I mentioned above, you decide to locate a 602T in your bedroom). Setup is either through a provided utility which finds the 602T on your network or by logging into the device through its Web interface. Impressively quiet with a sound output level of 24.3 dB(A) you could have a 602T running in your bedroom and you’d never hear it. The 602T has low power requirements: 23.5W in operation, 19W when the disks are hibernating, and a measly 1.4W in sleep mode and you can set power schedules and Wake-on-LAN is supported. Another minor issue is the bays aren’t physically numbered which can lead to problems if a drive goes down and you pull out the wrong tray (this is easily fixed by the judicious use of stickers but Asustor should consider adding this minor improvement). There are no bay locks which means you don’t let that guy in the office who can’t stop himself pushing buttons anywhere near it. Physically the 602T is modestly sized (6.4” tall by 4.3” wide by 9” deep) and has a polished, solid feeling design with drive trays that are hot-swappable and release with a push release button. Drives up to 5TB have been tested with the 602T (a list of compatible drives is available). As it comes without drives I used a couple of Western Digital's excellent Red NAS Hard Drive WD20EFRX 2TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" internal hard drives which are designed for NAS systems.ĭisk configurations for the 602T include single disk (only one bay populated thus only one volume), JBOD (two bays populated that appear as two volumes), RAID 0 (two drives as a single volume with data stripped across both drives), and RAID 1 (two drives mirrored).
The 602T is the two bay version of Asustor’s 6-series business NAS line (4-, 6-, and 8-bay versions are also available).