ASUSTOR AS3202T Network Attached Storage System

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APH Networks checked out the ASUSTOR AS3202T Network Attached Storage System

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A few years ago, I was walking in a mall parking lot in Markham, Ontario. As I passed by rows on rows of Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi vehicles -- many with license plates ending in '888' -- one particular car caught my eye. On the trunk, it said "C250". However, something did not really add up for me. Not only did it have unusually wide rear tires and particularly beefy brakes with cross-drilled rotors, it also had quad exhausts at the back, and featured a rear diffuser. As I moved along to the front, I spotted a bulging hood. Since the car was parked, I decided to take a look inside. Although the windows were tinted dark enough it took some effort to inspect the interior, once I got close enough, it confirmed my suspicions: If the bucket seats did not give it away, the "AMG" marking at the bottom of the speedometer and "6.3-V8" label at the back of the tachometer did. Clearly, this "C250" was not your pedestrian 201hp Mercedes-Benz C-class. Instead, it was the obscenely lunatic C63 AMG, equipped with a massive 6.2L V8 engine that produces at least 451hp -- and if the guy bought the Performance Package, make it 481. Imagine the surprise when this "C250" pulls away from you at the lights and hits 60mph in less than four seconds! You know, sometimes, certain things may look pedestrian to us. However, what is under the hood could be something you have completely not been expecting. In November last year, I reviewed the ASUSTOR AS1002T, which featured a relatively pedestrian Marvell ARMADA-385 1GHz CPU with 512MB RAM. Two months ago, I covered the AS3102T, a system that looked almost exactly the same on the outside, but featured a beefier Intel Celeron N3050 CPU with 2GB of RAM. Well, today, we are going to take a look at yet another NAS from ASUSTOR. The AS3202T literally looks identical to the AS3102T both on the outside and the inside, but it comes with one fundamental change: A quad core Intel Celeron N3160 CPU. I would not call this the AMG of NAS boxes unless they shove a Core i7 into something of this size, but until that day arrives, will we still see a performance boost over its dual core brethren? We took one in to find out.
 ASUSTOR AS3202T Network Attached Storage System @ APH Networks