Storage/NAS by stefan @ 2014-02-13
HS-210 is the new fanless 2-bay NAS from QNAP which supports both 2.5’’ and 3.5’’ drives; the top cover acts as a large heatsink and is powered by a 1.6GHz Marvell processor along with 512MB of RAM. Thanks to the QTS 4.1 operating system, the NAS is fully featured but unfortunately it does not have a HDMI port for connecting directly to our HDTV.
We can clearly see holes designated for both 2.5’’ and 3.5’’ drives:
If we look more carefully inside the bays, we will get to see the SATA Power/Data connectors; the HDDs/SSDs will be inserted inside the NAS with their bottom side upwards:
The bottom cover of the NAS is easily removable:
The top side is even more interesting, which shows the hardware placed on a “T”-shaped PCB:
On this side of the motherboard we will be able to take a look at the connectors, the card reader and also one of the SATA ports:
The motherboard also comes with a battery for keeping the settings saved:
A circular buzzer is also present on the opposite side of the PCB; near it we can also see a possible FAN header, which was probably included in the first stages of the project and removed afterwards:
Let’s dig even further and remove the printed circuit board from the top cover:
A coin-shaped heatsink can be easily spotted this way, which is meant to keep the Marvell processor cool:
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