Comparison of Western Digital My Book Live and Asustor AS5004T

The side-by-side comparison of the devices’ specifications. The comparison table below makes it easier to choose the most fitting NAS.

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Launch	2012	2015
Class	Low end	Small office / Home office
Dimensions	167 x 139 x 50 mm	185.5 x 170 x 230 mm
Weight	1.09 kg	2.98 kg
Disks
Disk bays	1 x 3.5" SATA II	4 x 3.5" SATA III
RAID	no	JBOD RAID0 RAID1 RAID10 RAID5 RAID6
SSD support	no	yes

Network
LAN ports	1 x Gigabit Ethernet	2 x Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless	no	yes, with USB dongle
Protocols	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP NFS	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP ISCSI NFS RSYNC SFTP WEBDAV
P2P support	no	BitTorrent
Media server	DLNA UPnP iTunes	DLNA UPnP iTunes
Cloud backup	no	Amazon S3 Dropbox Google Drive HiDrive Microsoft OneDrive
Connectivity
USB ports	no	2 x USB 2.0 3 x USB 3.0
eSATA ports	no	2 x eSATA
System
CPU	Applied Micro APM82181 @ 800 MHz	Intel Celeron J1800 dual-core @ 2.4 GHz
RAM	256 MB	1 GB DDR3 (upgradable)
Flash	512 kB	1 GB
Operating system	WD My Book OS	Asustor ADM
Alternative OS
Power
Power supply	12 V / 1.5 A	12 V / 5 A
Consuption		30.8 W / 12.1 W
Fans	fanless	1 x 120 mm
Noise level		17.6 dB(A)
Features
Specials		HDMI output Infrared receiver Audio output (S/PDIF)
Administration
Default IP	DHCP	DHCP
Default username	admin	admin
Default password	admin	admin

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