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The AS5202T is a compact two-bay NAS, measuring 230 x 114 x 170mm (D x W x H), and it sports Asustor's diamond-cut exterior design that was introduced with the AS40**T family. However, the detailing finishes for the NAS are different as befitting the new Nimbustor series (AS5202T & AS5304T) so that the Asustor name, top and bottom flashes of the power button panel and labels for the LEDs are now finished in red.
Most of the front bezel is the cover for the pair of vertically mounted drive bays. This cover is held on by four small magnets making it very quick and easy to access the drives. To the left of the cover sits the power button and the LED indicators. From top to bottom these are; power, system status, network (glows blue for 1GbE, purple for 2.5GbE), USB and finally two LEDs displaying hard drive activity/status. Below these sits the One Touch copy button for the front USB 3.1 port that sits towards the bottom of this front side of the NAS.
The rear panel of the NAS is dominated by the grill for the 70mm cooling fan. To the upper right of the fan sit a pair of USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports. Sitting beside the grill are the pair of 2.5GbE ports, above which sits a HDMI 2.0a port.
The AS5202T uses a tool free system to hold the hard drives in place. Two plastic strips with built-in pins fit into the sides of the drive tray with the pins pushing through a vibration deadening grommet into the hard drive sides. It’s simple but very effective.
To access the two SO-DIMM slots, you need to remove the cover by undoing the two screws in the rear panel that hold it to the chassis. The memory slots sit under the hard drive cage and support a maximum of 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400.
