- 2-Bay
- Usage High read/write performance with RAID
- Diskless System
- Intel Atom 1.86 GHz Dual-core Processor Processor
- 2 x 10/100/1000M
- 2 x USB 3.0 port (Back: 2) 3 x USB 2.0 port (Front: 1; Back: 2)
Absolutely LOVE this thing!
06/27/2014
This review is from: QNAP TS-269L-US Diskless System High-performance 2-bay NAS Server for SMBs
Pros:
- Comes with a free upgrade to the Intel Atom D2701 CPU running at 2.13Ghz.
- Dual Hotswap Bays (SATA II Speeds MAX)
- Dual Gigabit NICs with teaming and failover capabilities
- Runs very cool and quiet. That is unless you have loud HDDs.
- Very robust web interface management.
- Excellent physical construction.
- Excellent TWONKY DLNA implimentation.
- TONS of extra value add features. (DHCP Server, WINS Server, VPN Server, FTP Server, MySQL Server with PHPAdmin, iTunes Server, Native Apple TimeMachine support, etc, etc, etc!
Cons:
- CRASHPLAN IS NOT OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED
- Costs almost as much as an actual PC with similar specs. However there are TONS of value adds which make this a no-brainer purchase.
- The learning curve. While it is actually pretty easy, there are a TON of options and if you don't know how they all interconnect and work then it will take some time to understand and configure everything. I'd suggest messing with the box for a few days, change a ton of stuff, break it a few times and then do a factory reset. Better to get to know it BEFORE you start using it to host important data.
Overall Review:
Dear QNAP,
PLEASE start officially supporting APPS like CrashPlan. If I could have all my friends and family sending me their crashplan backup instead of some over priced cloud service or even worse to some external hard drive that they never actually hookup, then I would be a very... VERY happy person. I'd probably send you a slice of my birthday cake every year just to say thank you! Hope you like angel-food!
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