Price ex.VAT: £266.00

Price inc.VAT: £319.20



General Performance The TS-251B-4G unlike the DS218+ is made by Qnap. By choosing Qnap people expect to see advanced configurations opportunities as well as innovative and more diverse business applications. You are able to customize the TS-251B-4G to your needs. Unlike the DS218+ this box has the Intel® Celeron® J3355 dual-core 2.0 GHz processor (burst up to 2.5 GHz) processor. Another key difference between the DS218+ is RAM. TS-251B-4G arrives with 4GB RAM. The TS-251B-4G 4GB RAM compared with DS218+ 2GB is clearly weaker.

About Connections At the back of the box you will find HDMI port which will let you connect it to TV or monitor. In this case you are not limited to network speeds. PCIe port is new feature in desktop NAS market. You can utilise it by adding M.2 SSD for caching or adding 10Gbe fast network card for faster data transfer speed. There is one LAN port on this box, making it a simple home NAS. Two USB3 ports on this Qnap is offering you up to 5Gb/s transfer speeds of external devices. It is fast enough to get your files through fairly quickly with this speed and make backing up with an external drive or Apple Time Machine a quick and easy process.

About Usage With two bay unit you are having additional advantages. You may choose your box to be set up as JBOD, RAID0 or RAID1. RAID 0 would be good for non-critical storage of data when you need it to read and written at high speeds. It could give you good performance. Besides you can still access your documents or media files over your private network or even internet. You may install Plex Media Server on this box. Plex lets you easily create a feature rich and practical home media playback system. Some boxes offer real time transcoding functionality. That let you stream your media hustle free, based on your device speed or screen size. Please contact us to find transcoding compatibility list.

Price And Warranty This box comes with 2 year warranty for your peace of mind and long term hardware security. This is the most expensive box with the price tag £266.00.

4/5

Our Review:

Price ex.VAT: £255.00

Price inc.VAT: £306.00

OVERALL DESIGN 8.00

FEATURES 8.00

PERFORMANCE 8.00

VALUE FOR MONEY 8.00





design I absolutely love this new chassis. Robbie on our YouTube channel, when asked to compare it with the DS216+ case, described it as comparing the new Robocop movie with the older one. Much more modern shape and design, a good mix of sharp edges with all the curves in the right places.

features On a hardware level, you are going to be hard pushed to find a better 2 bay in this price range. Only the Synology DS718+ gives you better hardware options, but at a price of just £280+ without VAT, this is hard to beat.

performance Featuring a great J series CPU from intel in Dual Core and 2GB of memory, this unit can perform all of the very latest applications from synology in DSM 6.2

value Synology have really turned a corner on their NAS series with this upgrade to the DS218+ flagship home two bay NAS. This is a worthy successor to the DS216+II and highly recommended.



design Still features that odd removable front panel, instead of lockable trays.

features Just one LAN port mans that link aggregation is not supported.

performance That dual core CPU, though an x86 chip that is highly suitable as a plex media server, is just a little underwhelming for creating even a single standalone VM use.

value If you reduce the size of your hard drives for this NAS by even 1TB each, you can afford the more powerful DS718+.