Thecus N1200 single bay NAS device Review

The front of the N1200 is a lesson in simple elegance, with more than a passing nod to the Xbox 360 in its basic design (minus the Red Rings of Death, I hasten to add!). The N1200 is designed to stand vertically, as pictured here, with the front of the unit containing two buttons - One for powering the device on and off, and the other to initiate a copy from the drive housed within the device to an external drive, most likely connected to one of the N1200's USB ports. You can see that one of these USB ports (which will accept both standard external hard drives and flash memory sticks) has sensibly been placed at the front of the unit, with the other housed at the rear of the enclosure. That aside, numerous LEDs make up the rest of the N1200's faceplate, showing the unit's status as well as any activity on the WAN, LAN, hard disk and USB ports.