THE AS-608T EXTERIOR

The AS-608T is an 8-bay NAS Server so it goes without saying that it's quite large (293mm in Length, 230mm in Depth and 215.5mm in Width) and quite heavy (6.2kg).

To "illustrate" just how large it is we placed the 4-bay AS-304T and the 2-bay AS-202TE (review pending) ontop of each other (depth is the same for all 3 models).

The ASUSTOR logo is placed right above the on/off power button and the power/HDD activity LEDs.

Bellow those we see two Ethernet activity LEDs and a USB 3.0 port part of the 1 touch backup feature.

We see the usual perforation on the left side of the chassis.

The AS-608T features a very useful LCD screen at the front along with 4 navigation buttons (we will dedicate one page for that later on).

All 8 drive trays are placed horizontally and aside the very nice release button mechanism they also come with individual activity LEDs.

The drive trays are made by aluminum and can accommodate both 3.5" and 2.5" drives.

The rear certainly looks larger than the front.

Here we find two 120mm exhaust fans, power port, 40mm PSU exhaust fan, USB 3.0 port, two eSATA ports, two Gigabit ports, four USB 2.0 ports, HDMI port and a Kensington lock.

The device sits on 4 large and removable round plastic/rubber feet.