Gadgets come and gadgets go but one thing most have in common is that over a period of time there seems to be an overwhelming drive to make things smaller and smaller.

Sometimes it’s simply for aesthetics sake and sometimes it is as an aid to portability or space saving especially around the home or home office where space is often at a premium.

Most of us are familiar with external storage devices in the form of external hard disk enclosures and some of us will also be familiar with network attached storage (NAS) devices, but the NAS world has just downsized big style with the announcement of the worlds smallest NAS device, the Thecus N0204 mini NAS.

This diminutive contender is no slouch though and is still a fully featured NAS device but on a very small scale with a 132 x 88 x 63mm footprint and tipping the scales at a less than half a bag of sugar by all accounts although weight will vary depending upon your hard disk configuration.

Even in this tiny form the Thecus N0204 can still support up to 1TB of storage either in raid O, raid 1 or just a bunch of disks format and if that was not enough the drive bays are hot swappable and it also features auto-rebuild.

The Thecus N0204 mini NAS is probably more suited to the home or home office environment in reality but given the data access, networking functionality and additional feature set of the device means that it would be equally at home in an office environment as well.

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