Taiwanese NAS maker Thecus was kind enough to invite me over to Berlin where they were showcasing their latest NAS. The event itself was organized by Caseking and it was actually held close to their HQ in a very nice spot. It's called the Classic Remise, where you find an astonishing collection of classic cars. But lets go back to the hardware topic here. All the three models shown belong to Thecus' W Series, which is their shortcut for Windows. To be a bit more precise the exact model names are W2000, W4000 and W5000.

Taiwanese NAS maker Thecus was kind enough to invite me over to Berlin where they were showcasing their latest NAS. The event itself was organized by Caseking and it was actually held close to their HQ in a very nice spot. It's called the Classic Remise, where you find an astonishing collection of classic cars. But lets go back to the hardware topic here. All the three models shown belong to Thecus' W Series, which is their shortcut for Windows. To be a bit more precise the exact model names are W2000, W4000 and W5000.

At the event there wasn't only Thecus, representatives from Microsoft, Seagate and Intel were also invited. This basically shows which companies Thecus is working with the closest. Their new W2000, W4000 and W5000 NAS are all based on a dual core Intel Atom processors, which runs at 2.13 GHz clock speed. Apart from that Thecus ships all units with pre-installed Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials and therfore targets the SME market with these units.

Since the W Series from Thecus run Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials they are easy to integrate into an existing Microsoft based ecosystem, which brings Microsoft on the stage. They were underlining the points that it is very simple to deploy Office 365 in SME environments as well as implement Microsoft Azure backup.

At a later point Seagate took the stage and they were explaining that the business with HDDs is ever growing. One reason for that is content creation, which led and still leads to a stable demand for more storage space. The most important point Seagate made, was about them having a very unique approach when it comes to data recovery. Usually when a hard drive fails irreversibly you need to send it in if you want you're data to be recovered. According to Seagate one has to calculate with costs of 799 USD per drive. If you own a five bay NAS you end up with quite a bill to pay. Seagate now offers a special warranty plan, which is called +Rescue, which includes data recovery if a drive should fatally fail.

If you'd like to find additional information on the models presented please check out the links below:

Thecus W2000

Thecus W4000

Thecus W5000