QNAP HS-251+

This smart home storage from QNAP is a system with great features and above-average performance at an affordable price. The HS-251+, powered by a quad-core Intel® Celeron® 2.0GHz processor, was created as a silent NAS solution that allows users to enjoy files and media with no distractions, providing a perfect match for home theater enthusiasts and audiophiles looking to maximize their audiovisual experience and users who wish to constantly run their systems without any background noise. Coupled with the support of HDMI connectivity for 1080p video playback and hardware transcoding capability, the HS-251+ is an ideal companion at home for multimedia entertainment. Being fanless, the HS-251+ has no internal moving parts for improved reliability and remains clean and dust-free even after long-term usage. The HS-251+ is best used with SSDs or WD® Red™ & Seagate® NAS drives as a reliable storage solution.

Key Features

• Low-noise design without fans
• Video transcoding on the fly
• Intuitive and modern operating system QTS
• Support multimedia library using DLNA

Professional hardware

Powered by a 22nm 64-bit quad-core Intel® Celeron® 2.0GHz processor with 2GB energy-efficient DDR3L RAM, coupled with the support of dual LAN ports, the HS-251+ is a powerful NAS with higher performance to deliver up to 224MB/s read & write speeds. The HS-251+ can also automatically increase the processor's clock rate from 2.0GHz to 2.42GHz when needed for CPU-intensive tasks. The disk controller supports RAID 1,0 and JBOD with AES encryption allowing speeds of up to 205 MB / s, ensuring not only safe but also fast storage.

Intuitive operation

The modern QTS 4.2 system affords intuitive ease of use and smart home storage. Wth virtualisation support you can easily create virtual machines and back up, restore, and more all in a web interface. Thanks to the exclusive technology QVPC can directly access the hardware of your home smart storage and therefore perform several functions simultaneously.

Made for multimedia

Thanks to HDMI connectivity, the NAS can connect to any viewer, projector or home theater and allowing you to enjoy multimedia content in Full HD with 7.1 sound - of course, everything can be controlled using the included infrared remote control. For mobile devices there's also the option of streaming "over the air", including video transcoding to the desired quality and format. Data can also be backed up to and restored from a range of cloud storage services, including Amazon® S3, Amazon Glacier, Microsoft® Azure, ElephantDrive®, Dropbox® and Google Cloud Storage.

Unusual features

Among the many advanced features will include the option of backing up over NetBak Replikator or using Apple Time Machine. Among the unusual features include the ability to host Web servers, FTP servers or VPN servers that support L2TP / IPsec, OpenVPN, and PPTP. Moreover there's also the possibility of a professional surveillance solution being implemented.