QNAP HS-210 Silent and Fanless 2-bay NAS Review

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.

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A Closer Look Part IV

The central processor is covered by a small thermal pad which acts as an interface:

 

 

 

On the board we have also spotted one Etron EJ168 USB 3.0 Host Controller:

 

 

 

The LAN interface is provided by the Marvell 88E1318-NNE3 Gigabit controller:

 

 

 

Near the CPU we will find two Hynix H5TQ2G83CFR chips, each having 256MB of DDR3:

 

 

 

A PIC16F690 8-bit microcontroller can be also spotted in the vicinity:

 

 

 

Here are some examples of both 3.5’’ and 2.5’’ drive mountings inside the trays:

 

3.5’’

 

 

 

 

 

2.5’’

 

 

 

 

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