Slowly but steadily Multi Gig Ethernet is arriving into the consumer domain. ASUSTOR has released a new NAS with 10 Gigabit Ethernet for the consumer market. Armed with a dual-core processor the AS4004T NAS is to set a record or two in the consumer and SOHO NAS domain alright. Yeah, they released a NAS that features a whopping 10Gbps Ethernet jack as four drive bays, and do so at a very interesting price point. The new AS4004T (there also is a two-bay version AS4002T) features one 10GbE network port and two 1GbE ports. Next, to the lovely ADM software suite, ASUSTOR also upgraded the drive caddies, now in a tool-less design. The price for this NAS series is a proper one as it sits under $400, we expect final pricing to settle at $359 / € 379,-for the four-bay unit. That is unprecedented price wise for anything offering 10Gbps Ethernet.

Obviously, they had to save on some features in order to present a price competitive product, ergo ASUSTOR dropped the multimedia features, there is no HDMI output. However, this is a NAS back to its roots, a proper file streaming server with an excellent application suite. To further reduce costs the AS4004T makes use of a dual-core Marvell Armada 7020 processor running at 1.6 GHz. Next, to that, it has been paired with 2GB dual-channel memory (not expandable) and yes, it has a nearly exhaustive plethora of ASUSTOR features and APPs making this a small server really. The four in that product name means we'll be testing the 4-bay version of this dual-core processor based NAS.