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The N5200Pro NAS device comes with numerous features. (Please help to update this page!)

Contents 1 Hard Disks 2 External Ports 3 Network File Protocols 4 Authentication 5 System Management 6 RAID 7 iSCSI Target 8 Networking 9 Folder Management 10 Supported USB Devices 11 Other built-in features 12 Physical Dimensions 13 Tweaks

Hard Disks

• 5 x 3.5" SATA II HDD, Hot-swappable
• Lockable Disk Tray
• HDDs up to 1TB at 3GB/s
• Disk Status Monitoring (S.M.A.R.T.)
• Disk Power Management (Disk idle spin-down)

Note. Disk Power Management does not work on all drives. Samsung Spinpoint drives, and some Seagate 7200.10 drives, do not spin down but Western Digital drives that have a disk power management jumper setting do power down.

External Ports

• 1 x eSATA connector for capacity expansion
• 3 x USB A type (Host mode)
• 1 x USB B type (Client mode)
• 1 x serial port

Network File Protocols

• Microsoft Networks (CIFS/SMB)
• Apple Filing Protocol (AFP 3)
• Network File System (NFS v3)
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTPs)

Authentication

• Microsoft NT Domain Controller (PDC)*
• Microsoft Active Directory Authentication (AD)*

(* PDC/AD support: Works as a client member in an Microsoft NT 4.0 domain/Active Directory domain, allowing the N5200 to utilize the domain users and groups setting for authentication to the system and authorization to the share folders.)

System Management

• Web GUI
• Multilingual Support (English, French, German, Italian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish)
• NTP supported
• Wake-On-LAN
• Schedule Power On/Off – For better power management

RAID

• RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD
• Supports multiple RAID modes – Users can create multiple RAIDs on one system.
• Auto Rebuild
• Hot Swappable
• Hot Spare
• Disk Roaming
• RAID Level Migration
• RAID Expansion
• Disk Capacity Supported :

 80/120/160/200/250/300/400/500/750/1000/1500 GB

iSCSI Target

• Supports Microsoft block level access

Networking

• Fixed IP Address
• Dynamic IP Address (DHCP client)
• DHCP server
• Windows Active Directory support (Works as a client member in an Microsoft NT 4.0 domain/Active Directory domain, allowing the N5200 to utilize the domain users and groups setting for authentication to the system and authorization to the share folders.)
• Model N5200B Pro: 2 x Gigabit RJ-45 Connectors

 - Jumbo Frames are supported
 - Link aggregation of ports for load balancing/failover enabled

• Model N5200BR Pro: 1 x Gigabit RJ-45 Connector plus 4 port Gigabit switch

 - Jumbo Frames only supported on WAN port, not on 4 port switch
   (Firmware 2.00.00 displays a Jumbo Frame configuation drop-down box, but it's disabled)
 - Link aggregation of ports for load balancing/failover NOT possible

• Jumbo Frames support for the following frame sizes: 4000, 8000, 12000, and 16000 byte frames

Folder Management

• Share Folder Level Permission
• File Level Permission
• Public Folders
• Share Folder Quota Control

Supported USB Devices

• USB Printer
• External HDD/Flash disk
• USB IEEE 802.11 b/g dongle w/ AP mode support (for some models)

Other built-in features

• USB "one touch copy"
• Email Notification
• Buzzer Notification
• LCD Front Panel

Physical Dimensions

• 230 x 190 x 230 mm (H x W x D)

Tweaks

The N5200 Pro software can be extended to some degree with non-official user supplied packages. See the N5200 Module List page.