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NAS drives are increasingly found in the home, offering a neat way to archive and access all your music and media and countless other important files. Whereas most are built more for server rooms than living rooms, the QNAP HS-210 will fit right in. Read...
The QNAP HS-210 is a smart and stylish network storage drive not just for the home but potentially the living room too. Thanks to passive cooling, it's calm and quiet, and can be made silent if your storage needs and budget can accomodate solid-state driv...
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Hello guys, Jonathan Kwan here. In this multi-author review, I would just like to start off with a little story before passing the time on to my colleague Preston Yuen for the next few pages. Earlier last week, I received a text message in the morning fro...
If this website was Facebook, and this page was the profile for some teenage guy or girl, then this paragraph will be one of those "to be honest" comments to share on someone's timeline. So, here we go. To be honest, when I first saw the QNAP HS-210, I th...
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The HS-210 comes with no disks installed, but it’s easy to install your own. The front fascia is attached magnetically and pulls off easily to reveal the pull-out disk caddies. The HS-210 also has four USB ports, two of which are USB3, plus an SD card rea...
A sleek and quiet NAS, but expensive and slow...
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When we look at where a NAS is typically designed to be placed, integration into a home A/V setup is not overly common surprisingly. Whilst there are a countless number of two and four bay systems that offer media playback capabilities, which I will add i...
Slim design to fit in with other home cinema devices, Magnetic front cover to hide drive bays, Friendly user interface...
System runs a bit too hot for my liking, Card reader and USB ports not easy to access, No means of connecting a TV for direct playback of content...
PricingIn the SOHO market the price, as I'm sure you'll imagine, is a key factor that can make or break the decision to buy a particular system. Priced at around $270-290 through Newegg, Amazon.com and TigerDirect in the US and around £240 in the UK throu...
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The number of smart TVs shipped in the last two years is amazing, and the technology has trickled down to lower cost offerings. The best time to purchase a new TV is right around Super Bowl time. This is when TV manufacturers allow retails to offer massiv...
The lowest priced QNAP desktop dual bay NAS we found at Amazon was $229.00. The TS-220 uses the same Marvell 1.6 GHz processor, and 512 MB of DRAM. Essentially, it has the same specs as the HS-210 that we looked at today. That means QNAP is charging a pr...
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NAS devices are the all-in-one kitchen appliance, the jack of all trades of the home network. They can do one thing, they can do many things, and often you don't even need all of the features. While it's great to own a £350 top-of-the-line model, it doe...
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Tech enthusiasts should be well aware of the benefits of network-attached storage, but for manufacturers, the ultimate end goal is to convince mainstream audiences that these pint-sized boxes are essential in the modern-day home. Taiwanese outfit QNAP rec...
Capable performance, Slim, stylish design, Wealth of features for the home user, Would be practically silent with SSDs, Low power consumption...
Is passive cooling for hard disks a good thing?, Lacks HDMI output for direct playback...
As the data needs of the modern-day consumer evolve, there's a greater call for centralised storage solutions that serve multiple devices and guarantee peace of mind through regular backups. For these reasons, we would suggest that network-attached stora...
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Early this year, QNAP launched a Network Attached Storage (NAS) specially designed for the modern digital lifestyle. With thanks to QNAP, the HS-210 has been on an extended tour of duty on the DigitalReviews test bench.Let see what makes this NAS differen...
The QNAP HS-210 is a great little unit all round with good performance, the capability is extended by the applications available to perform specific tasks. No doubt the CPU was chosen to minimise heat footprint, but it still manages to be a decent perform...
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Judging by sales numbers around the globe it seems that NAS servers have finally managed to replace full computer systems in some areas due to their size, low power consumption and easy to use menus and functions. This of course applies mostly to large en...
Excellent Build Quality, Good Performance, Design (Set Top Design), Passive Cooling (Silent), 4 USB Ports (2xUSB 3.0 / 2xUSB 2.0), Single/JBOD/RAID0/1 Support, QTS 4.1.0 OS, IP Camera Support, Android/iOS Apps, SD Card Slot...
Price (For Some), Temperatures, No HDMI Output...
When QNAP told us they were working on a silent passively cooled NAS we were all intrigued although i have to admit that i was a bit more excited than everyone else since i always wanted to have a NAS server inside my living room right beneath my 55 inch...
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An innovative, compact and silent two-bay NAS device, designed for the lounge but let down by a lack of HDMI support and lackluster file transfer performance. Stay tuned for the next version of the product which should deliver the goods.Previously tucked...
sQNAP's HS-210 Silent NAS is an innovative step forward for the company. It's a unique form factor in the NAS category, and QNAP have clearly put a lot of effort into designing and building a great looking, high quality device that would look the business...
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3dGameMan.com Updated: 2015-12-06 09:53:33
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The QNAP HS-210 is an outstanding 2-Bay Media Sharing Network Attached Storage device. With the power software and excellent hardware it's one of the most feature rich and powerful NAS devices on the market. Also, it looks outstanding, the build quality i...
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Product Features, SpecificationsPackaging, A Closer Look Part IA...
We really like what QNAP has done with this product, by adopting a fanless design so only the drives inside would most likely make some noise when operating; this is more likely to happen while using 3.5’’ drives, while with 2.5’’ we needed to place o...
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QNAP's latest two-bay NAS looks more like a set-top box than network-attached storage and that's no accident. It's becoming more common to see NAS devices replacing entire HTPCs, which makes it more practical for a design that can blend in with the kind o...
For its price, QNAP's HS210 has clean looks, okay performance and software that is perhaps second only to Synology's but definitely better than Thecus'.
Its fanless design seems gimmicky and its lack of HDMI makes the QNAP TS269L, Asustor AS202TE, Thecus N2520 more sensible HTPC replacements.
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