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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The Software Interface Part II

We will be prompted to enter up the login username/password combination:

 

 

 

The interface of the QTS 4.1 OS is quite intuitive and on first boot we will be also shown a wizard to guide us through the further setup steps:

 

 

 

The desktop widget shows various info regarding the current system status including transfer rates, temperatures, available resources and so on:

 

 

 

From the Control Panel we will be able to adjust several system settings:

 

 

 

The Storage Manager menu will allow us to see the currently installed drives and available logical volumes:

 

 

 

QTS will check the HDD status regularly and update the health information inside the HDD S.M.A.R.T. menu:

 

 

 

Next we will be able to adjust options like the system time, login screen appearance and so on:

 

 

 

 

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