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QNAP created their TS-251 Turbo NAS as a great high-performance solution for home users as well as small and medium-sized offices, and today I'm taking a closer look at what it has to offer and how well it performs in our testing area.The TS-251 provides...

Thank You QNAP for providing us with this review sample.

RAM upgrade takes some work, No toolless installation...

Pricing At the time of writing, the QNAP's TS-251 Turbo NAS can be found at NewEgg for $384.99, at Scan UK for £295.32, or through Geizhals starting at €284. Overview QNAP has really outdone themselves and created an amazing NAS. The TS-251 is compact th...
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NAS devices are pretty much mini-computers with a dedicated purpose—centralising control of your home networking capabilities. To do that requires some hardware capable of dealing with many devices connecting to and making use of its storage and applicati...

Reviewing the QNAP TS 251 was a learning and illuminating experience in the world of NAS devices. Not simply “dumb” file servers I can happily say that I am starting to take them seriously as a replacement for a dedicated HTPC/Home server machine, especia...
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Despite the fact that the NAS QNAP TS-251 has only two of its own drive bays, its performance can be the envy of many four disk model, positioned not only for home use, but also for work in the office. The thing is a new hardware platform, which formed th...
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Michael's original review continues below.The QNAP TS-251 is a powerful NAS with a vast array of features, such as on-the-fly media transcoding and the ability to run multiple virtual machines (VMs) in addition to the usual file sharing and backup service...

The QNAP TS-251 is a powerful NAS with many media and business features...
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There's a tremendous range of prices and capacities available in the NAS (network attached storage) field, and a big part of my job as a reviewer is sorting out the balance of performance, features, and price. It's rare for a NAS device to ace all three c...

Top performer in reads/writes among two-bay NASes we've tested. Solid RAID recovery. Easy remote access. Powerful virtualization capabilities. Affordable for its advanced feature set.

Slow at restoring RAID mirror in testing. Design lends itself to quick wear and tear...

QNAP's TS-251 dual-drive NAS offers excellent read/write performance, solid fault tolerance, and a sweet set of features to serve as a multimedia content storage star—all at an affordable price...
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At first we would like to thank QNAP for offering a sample of their TS-251 2-bay NAS for testing and reviewing.“QNAP Systems, Inc., as its brand promise "Quality Network Appliance Provider", aims to deliver comprehensive offerings of cutting edge network...

The new QNAP TS-x51 series is available in 2-bay, 4-bay, 6-bay and also 8-bay variants; the tested model contains at its core the Intel Celeron J1800 dual-core processor at 2.4GHz and is able to support on-the-fly video transcoding (thanks to Intel Quick...
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A faster CPU noticeably improves a NAS box's file-handling performance. The 2.4GHz Intel Celeron J1800 in QNAP's two-bay TS-251 also facilitates value-added functions, such as on-the-fly video encoding and the ability to run virtual machines. You wouldn't...

Good performance, Massive software feature set, Can replace several devices...

No locks on the drive bays, You'll need to expand its memory to use its VM features, New on-the-fly video encoding isn't up to snuff...

The TS-251 is the most capable and versatile two-bay NAS box in its price range. But it's pricey and its mobile media features aren't fully implemented...
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A faster CPU noticeably improves a NAS box's file-handling performance. The 2.4GHz Intel Celeron J1800 in QNAP's two-bay TS-251 also facilitates value-added functions, such as on-the-fly video encoding and the ability to run virtual machines. You wouldn't...
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QNAP recently upgraded its Home and SOHO NAS family with the TS-x51 series with two, four, six and eight bay models. All share a common hardware platform with two variations. The white TS-251 (2 bay) and TS-451 (4 bay) use the same main board with two eac...

Supports up to 8 GB of RAM, Wide range of downloadable apps, Quiet, Updated user interface...

TS451 is expensive compared to similarly performing TS469L...

There's no question that the TS-251 and TS-451 are high-performance NASes capable of large sequential file reads and writes of over 100 MB/s. But it's not clear that the switch to Intel's Bay Trail processor provides a price / performance point that you c...
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QNAP's TS-251 is a well built solid NAS with an large number of features that supports a wide range of possible applications. The TS-251 operating system offers a great deal of expandability through downloadable applications that extends the capabilities...

The QNAP TurboNAS TS-251 2-bay NAS is a powerful box that can be setup to run a whole host of different functions. From simple file sharing to cloud based and media center functions, the TS-251 can tackle them all.QNAP TS-251 Three Quarter ViewEquipped wi...
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