The popular NAS equipment manufacturer ASUSTOR has today launched a very interesting new equipment if you need additional storage on your NAS server or PC. The new ASUSTOR Xpanstor 4 It is an expansion unit that will allow us to have up to 88TB of additional storage, perfect for not having any storage problems for a long time. This model is compatible both with NAS servers from the ASUSTOR manufacturer, as well as for a normal computer to have a DAS that we connect via USB. Do you want to know all the characteristics of this model?
Expansion units are very interesting equipment to expand the storage of our NAS server in a very simple way, without having to change the NAS server for one with more bays. Additionally, we could make backup copies on these expansion units, and only turn on these computers if the backup is to be made. We must also keep in mind that we can connect it to a PC, so we can add a large amount of storage very easily.
Main features
This ASUSTOR Xpanstor 4 (AS5004U) expansion unit has a total of four bays to accommodate hard drives or SSD drives Inside, the hardware and software of the equipment support hard drives of up to 22TB capacity from the main manufacturers. Taking this into account, we can have up to 88TB of raw storage capacity. With these four bays we can have different configurations, this model supports single disk, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 and RAID 10, so, depending on our storage needs and security against disk failures, we can choose one option or another. Of course, this model also supports hot swapping, without the need to turn off the expansion unit first.
The connectivity of this expansion unit consists of the incorporation of one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port at 10 GbpsIn this way, we can obtain reading and writing speeds of up to approximately 1.2GB/s, perfect for making the most of the hard drives that we install inside. Thanks to the use of this port, we can connect it very easily to our NAS, but also to our PC. Of course, if your NAS or PC only supports USB 3.2 Gen 1 (the typical USB 3.0) it is also compatible, there is no problem with backwards compatibility.
Other interesting features of this model is that it is compatible with the MyArchive cold backup technology, which allows time scheduling to facilitate the 3-2-1 backups that we all know. In order to save energy as much as possible, when we connect it to a NAS server and it goes to sleep or is turned off, the expansion unit will do exactly the same, in order to save energy and increase the durability of the hard drives. Thanks to the fan built into the device, we can automatically adjust the speed to correctly cool the hard drives inside, and maintain a balance between cooling and noise.
As you can see, this expansion unit is really complete, since it has everything necessary to provide great performance and also great capacity, thanks to the USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps type C port, we have maximum speed and compatibility, perfect for intensive use both on a NAS server from the ASUSTOR manufacturer and also on a PC.
