As great as they think the TS-869 is, they seem even more fond of the N5550. According to them, it might just be the best value on the market today, helping them arrive at their final rating of 94%.
Now that we've established the Thecus N5550 as the best value on the market today let's take it a step further. For some the processor speed may still be an issue. In our benchmark charts today we compared the N5550 to the QNAP TS-869 Pro, a NAS that costs $1048 and runs eight drives. The Thecus N5550 ran with the TS-869 Pro and even outperformed that NAS in many tests. Thecus managed to do this with its programming / software and turning it into an efficient system. When you have efficiency you have more clock cycles free so your system runs faster, it's not much different than optimizing your desktop for performance by disabling all of the Windows features, services and such that suck up CPU cycles. If you are good with Linux I'm sure you could go in and do the same thing on any number of NAS units, but Thecus' software already has the magic configuration right out of the box.
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