QNAP TS-251 Review

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 categories, but QNAP's TS-251 NAS ($409) comes closer than just about any two-bay SOHO NAS I've tested. This dual-drive NAS offers excellent read/write performance, solid fault tolerance, and a sweet set of features, all of which make it a multimedia content storage star for home or small office networks. You will notice some performance hits with certain processor-intensive tasks such as RAID rebuilds, due to its inexpensive Celeron CPU. That's a worthwhile tradeoff, however, as the processor keeps the price fairly low.

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