It was originally marketed by the Linksys division of Cisco Systems in 2007.
The NAS200 is built around a RDC semiconductor R3210-G — a RISC-based System-on-a-chip that executes the Intel 80486 instruction set.
The NAS200's stock firmware supports only Microsoft Windows networking (SMB).
This firmware includes a Linux 2.6.19 kernel and uses an eCos-based boot loader.
[3] PC Magazine found it a little faster at 4.7 MB/s with 500Gb Seagate drives, but concluded it was too slow for movies.