Asustor AS5202T Nimbustor 2 Gaming Inspired Network Attached Storage

Asustor AS5202T Nimbustor 2 Gaming Inspired Network Attached Storage

• Two 2.5 GbE ports with up to 5 Gbps under Link Aggregation
• Up to 28TB. Store live streams on your NAS
• Intel Gemini Lake Celeron J4005 2.0Ghz Dual Core CPU Boosts to 2.7Ghz
• Upgradeable 2GB DDR4-2400 RAM
• All New Gaming-Inspired Theme for ADM

The Asustor AS5202T Nimbustor 2 Bay is my first look at an Asus NAS box. Up close, its appearance doesn’t quite live up to the top-tier look in the photos; its performance and features, however, most definitely do.

Design and specs

The Nimbustor 2, which I’ll hereinafter refer to by its model name, theAsustor AS5202T 2 Bay , is a black two-bay box (a four-bay version is also available that was selling for $429 on Amazon as of this writing). The front has the usual power and quick copy buttons, plus one Type-A 5Gbps USB port, as well as the power and drive status/activity lights.

On the back, you’ll find the aforementioned dual 2.5Gbps (RJ45) ethernet ports that may be aggregated for better performance, two more USB 3.2 (Gen 1) ports, and an HDMI 2.0a output.

Inside, there’s 2GB of DDR4-2400 memory and an Intel Gemini Lake Celeron J4005 CPU running at 2GHz. Bottom line in term of specs: It’s fast, and it’s loaded. Most of the NAS boxes passing though our lab use older DDR3 memory.

2.0Ghz Dual Core CPU Boosts to 2.7Ghz

The Asustor AS5202T 2 Bay utilizes the Intel Gemini Lake Celeron J4005 dual core CPU and is 30% faster than Apollo lake. The Celeron J4005 also doubles the on-chip cache to 4MB, making the AS5202T one of our fastest NAS devices ever.

Upgradeable 2GB DDR4-2400 RAM

The Asustor AS5202T Nimbustor 2 comes with two Gigabytes of DDR4 RAM and can be upgraded up to 8GB. DDR4 RAM provides up to 30% greater performance than DDR3 while also lowering energy requirements by 40%.

150% Faster with 2.5-Gigabit Ethernet