NSA325

 

 

 

 

With the latest personal cloud feature of ZyXELs Media Servers, you can freely access, share and enjoy digital media contents through your smartphones and tablets with the Polkast app, no matter where you are!

 

 

 

 

The ZyXEL Media Server is more than just a central home media library! With the Polkast support, you can virtually take thousands of photos, videos and music with you, wherever you are.

 

 

 

When you’re in the office, you can easily continue the unfinished presentation files that you’ve stored on the ZyXEL Media Server at home. Just click the Polkast app on your smartphone or tablet, and then you can easily access your home media server and continue working on the presentation files right away.

 

 

 

At the end of an exhausted working day, you may want to share some family photos or videos with your friends in a café. Just click the Polkast app on your smartphone or tablet, you can immediately enjoy photos, music and videos stored on the ZyXEL Media Server on your smartphone screen with just a few clicks. Everything is at your fingertips.

 

 

On a weekend, you go to a friend’s house-warming party. If you’d like to share your vacation travel photos, just click the Polkast app on your smartphone to immediately share the photos with friends with just a few taps. How about sharing beautiful scenes from a trip with your family when you’re still on the road? Take pictures or videos with your smartphone or tablet, and send it to your ZyXEL Media Server with Polkast. A few seconds later, your family can see the photos on Facebook, YouTube or Flickr.

 

 

 

Enabling access to your personal data from anywhere is simple with ZyXEL. Just install the Polkast app* on your smartphone and/or tablet, register through the app, enable Polkast in your ZyXEL Media Server and youre ready to roam freely with all the data at your finger tips. Check out how simple it is to enable Polkast on your ZyXEL Media Server!

 

Make NSA325 2-Bay Power Plus Media Server as your mobile cloud media center at home. The new mobile applications of NSA325 make it easy for you to backup, playback, and download files freely. Working with Dropbox, NSA325 can backup files and send torrents from your smartphones or tablet PC to your NSA325 virtually anywhere.

 

 

 

Powered by a 1.6 GHz CPU and 512 MB memory, the ZyXEL NSA325 2-Bay Power Plus Media Server provides faster multimedia streaming speed and sharing functions simultaneously to different UPnP- and DLNA-certified devices, such as Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3 or DLNA TV in every room at home.

 

Acting as an iTunes server, SqueezeCenter, personal blog and photo album server, the NSA325 makes it easy to stream and share multimedia contents on PCs, laptops and SqueezeBoxes.

 

 

Through NSA325’s intuitive user interface, you can quickly preview files through thumbnails and play photo slideshows directly from your Web browser. The NSA325 also allows you to create a music playlist and play it in the background for your slide shows.

 

 

 

When you are at home, zMedia, a mobile App designed for your smartphones, allows you to not only play videos, photos and music stored in the NSA325, but also easily check NSA325 system, file download/upload status or configure your NSA325 remotely without powering up your PC or laptop.

 

 

Share with your family over home network

 

Want to share the photos and videos taken in family trips or your children’s birthday parties stored in your laptop or PC? Just store all of your favorite photos, music, videos from your PC to the NSA325, as your centralized digital media library, and your family can immediately access the files on their laptops and tablet PCs over your home network.

 

 

 

Without powering up your PC or laptop, just plug your digital cameras, smart phones or USB mass storage devices into the NSA325’s USB ports and push the copy/sync button* to save the photos and videos in the NSA325. Few minutes later, your newly-added photos and videos will be utomatically uploaded by the NSA325 to the social media sites like Flickr and YouTube and ready to share with your friends! The embedded USB 3.0 port on the NSA325 bring faster data backup speed to and from USB mass storage devices or digital cameras.

 

It is recommended to create a specific share first for back files.

 

 

The new mobile applications of the NSA325 make it easy for you to backup and download files freely. Through the Dropbox App , you can backup files or send torrents from your smartphones or tablet PC to your NSA325 from virtually anywhere.

 

 

The NSA325 features a P2P download service for fast downloading and sharing large files. With high-speed DHT (Distributed Hash Tables) mode and TCP/UDP tracker protocols support, the NSA325 overcomes the drawbacks of slow and disrupted downloading.

 

 

 

After you subscribe to RSS feeds and add the links to the NSA325, the built-in RSS client enables the NSA325 to automatically download the latest digital contents, such as TV programs and Podcasts. With RSS server support, the NSA325 makes it easy for you to share the files with your friends by subscribing to the RSS feeds you set.

 

 

With the NSA325, you can establish your own FTP server and manage access authorization for it. The auto-upload function can automatically upload files stored in the NSA to FTP servers; it’s a very efficient way to update multiple FTP servers simultaneously and share with your friends and family.

 

 

 
In addition to serving as an eMule/P2P Download/FTP server, our one-click hosting download manager makes it easy for you to manage large files downloads from RapidShare.

 

 

The zPilot™ file auto-classification function of the NSA325 enables you to easily store and manage media files through simple drag-and-drop operations. With zPilot™ software installed on your computer, you can drag one or more files or folders to the zPilot™ icon on the desktop, and they will be identified and delivered automatically to music, photo, video or other designated folders on the NSA325.

 

 

 

With smart fan technology, the NSA325 can run at slower speeds to reduce power consumption when the system temperature is low.

 

 

A new green feature dubbed "Wake-on-LAN" enables users turn on the NSA325 and access media files remotely anytime and anywhere, even when the device at home is powered off.

 

 

 
The internal hard disks in the NSA325 can automatically spin down when there is no data transmission after a period of time.

 

 

With the power scheduling function, the NSA325 can be turned off automatically based on your usage patterns and needs to conserve power and expense.

 

System Specifications

Networking

• Network protocol:
  • CIFS/SMB, NFS (for Linux/Unix)
  • FTP, HTTP
  • DHCP client
  • PPPoE
  • Network Time Protocol (NTP)
• Network application:
  • Personal Cloud with Polkast support
  • Media server:
  - DLNA 1.5 media server
  - UPnP AV server
  - iTunes server
  - SqueezeCenter support
  - Photo album server
  
  • Web server:
  - FTP server
  - phpMyAdmin/MySQL/PHP
  - RSS client & server
  
  • Smartphone application:
    • zMedia for NSA configuration, system status monitoring, file browsing and media playback
  • Network application management:
    • User & group management
    • Package Management for setting up applications
    • One-click-hosting sites download manager
  • Network security:
    • Support HTTPS and FTPES (FTP over explicit TLS/SSL)
    • Encrypted NSA to NSA remote replication
    • Encrypted NSA to external disk archive backup

Data Management

• Backup support:
  • One-touch copy/sync button for external USB-capable devices backup
  • Backup planner:
  - Instant/Scheduled backup
  - NSA to NSA synchronization/archive backup
  - NSA to external USB hard disk backup
  
  • Dropbox support
  • Apple Time Machine support
• Download/Upload support:
  • Auto-download from FTP/HTTP/P2P download service
  • Scheduled download
  • One-click hosting sites downloading
  • Auto-upload photos and videos to YouTube/Flickr/FTP server
• File system support:
  • Internal HDD: EXT4
  • External HDD: NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, FAT32, ReiserFS, XFS

System Management

• RAID 0, 1, JBOD
• Online firmware upgrade
• Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)

Power and Thermal Management

• Power control:
  • Internal disk hibernation support
  • Scheduled power on/off/reboot
  • Wake-on-LAN support
  • System automatically resume after power outage
  • APC USB UPS monitoring and auto shutdown
• Thermal management:
  • Smart fan speed control
  • High temperature alert/buzzer
  • Auto shutdown while high temperature

Minimum System Requirements

• OS for utility: Windows XP/Vista/7 (32 & 64 bit)
• Browser: IE 7.0+, Firefox 3.6+, Google Chrome 10+, Safari 5+

Hardware Specifications

• Two 3.5" SATA I/II hard disk interface supported
• One Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 connector
• Two USB 2.0 ports
• One USB 3.0 port
• Buttons:
  • Power button
  • Copy/Sync button
  • Reset button
• Smart fan design
• Power consumption:
  • Access mode: 27 watt
  • Hard disk spin-down mode: 7 watt
• Power:
  • Input: 100 - 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz
  • Output: 12 V DC, 5 A
• Front Panel:

• RearPanel:

Physical Specifications

• Item dimensions (WxDxH): 108 x 205 x 147 mm (4.25" x 8.07" x 5.79")
• Item weight: 1,080 g (2.38 lb.)
• Packing dimensions (WxDxH): 280 x 173 x 210 mm (11.02" x 6.81" x 8.27")
• Packing weight: 1,810 g (3.99 lb.)

Environmental Specifications

• Operating environment
  • Temperature: 0Cto 40C (32F to 104F)
  • Humidity: 10%to 95% (Non-condensing)
• Storage environment
  • Temperature: -30Cto 70C (-22F to 158F)
  • Humidity: 10%to 95% (Non-condensing)

Certification

• Safety: CE LVD, BSMI
• EMC: CE, FCC class B, C-Tick, BSMI
• Others: DLNA 1.5, UPnP

Package Contents

• Media server (Hard disks not included)
• Power adapter
• Ethernet cable
• Quick start guide
• Support CD
• Warranty card