Thecus N2310 Review

Inside, the N2310 is just as simple as you would expect.  The NAS is powered by an applied micro Catalina processor clocked at 800MHz and two Samsung K4B2G1646E-BCK0 DDR3 modules.

applied micro Catalina (APM86491-SKB90DT)

• Single-Core Power™465 processors with a floating-point unit
• CPU speed (frequency): 600 MHz to 1.0 GHz
• Performance: 2000 Dhrystone, 2.1 MIPS @ 1.0GHz
• 32 KB I/32 KB-D L1 caches and 256 KB L2 cache
• 16/32-bit DDR3 SDRAM controller with optional ECC, for up to 1066 Mbps operation
• Two Gen 2 PCI Express interfaces with x1 operations
• USB 3.0 – 1 Host with integrated PHY, 1 Host & Device with integrated PHY
• Two SATA ports
• Two Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports: 2x RGMII with Classification and TCP/IP offload.
• Four UART
• Symmetric and asymmetric security hardware acceleration engines – encryption, hash and more
• Supports AES, ARC4, 3DES, MD5, HMAC, SHA-xxx with HMAC, Kasumi and XTS-AES, PKA, PRNG
• Embedded volatile and non-volatile private key storage
• Boot support from 16-bit and 8-bit NAND flash, NOR flash/SD card/serial flash/USB/DRAM
• SLIMPro ARM 32-bit acceleration processor to provide enhanced hardware acceleration capabilities
• Dedicated Ethernet Offload Engine, Classification Engine, Queue Manager / Traffic Manager.
• Power Management via advanced wake up capabilities from Deep Sleep Mode such as Wake on LAN, Wake on USB, Wake on PCIe, and Wake on Interrupts.

10/100/1000 Ethernet is handled by Realtek (RTL8211E)

• 1000Base-T IEEE 802.3ab Compliant
• 100Base-TX IEEE 802.3u Compliant
• 10Base-T IEEE 802.3 Compliant
• IEEE 802.3 Compliant RGMII (RTL8211E/RTL8211EG)
• IEEE 802.3 Compliant GMII (RTL8211EG only)
• Supports IEEE 802.3az Draft 3.2 (Energy Efficient Ethernet)
• Built-in Wake-on-LAN (WOL)
• Supports Interrupt function
• Supports Parallel Detection
• Crossover Detection & Auto-Correction
• Automatic polarity correction
• Supports PHYRSTB core power Turn-Off
• Baseline Wander Correction
• Supports half/full-duplex operation
• Supports 120m for CAT.5 cable in 1000Base-T
• Supports 3.3V or 2.5V signaling for RGMII/GMII
• Supports 25/50MHz external crystal or OSC
• Provides 125MHz clock source for MAC
• Provides 3 network status LEDs
• Supports Link Down power saving
• Green Ethernet (Gigabit mode only)
• Built-in switching regulator
• Packages
  • 48-pin QFN (RTL8211E)