News - QNAP launches TS-210 Turbo NAS, keeps chipping away at NAS pricing

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Two-bay NAS with decent functionality hits retail priced at under £180.

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I'd be interested to know how its performance compares to the Synology DS209 (the 1.2GHz model) as it's a fair bit cheaper but still better than a 266MHz CPU.

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Originally Posted by Steve

I'd be interested to know how its performance compares to the Synology DS209 (the 1.2GHz model) as it's a fair bit cheaper but still better than a 266MHz CPU.

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It's got similar specs to my DS207+ so I'd expect ~20-30MB/s read and 15-20MB/s write (assuming gigabit networking).

Nearly half the price I paid for my DS207+ earlier this year!!

Er, what RAID modes other than 0, 1 and JBOD could a two-drive NAS support?

It'd be great if Hexus could review some of these. I'm after a multi-bay NAS but I'm wondering what real-world compromises these cheaper units would bring compared to the gruntier ones.

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Originally Posted by Nelviticus

Er, what RAID modes other than 0, 1 and JBOD could a two-drive NAS support?

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Well, that's your lot really. But it would be cool to use LVM to break the disks up into partitions that have their own RAID mode, a bit like Intel Matrix Storage. So for example you have half RAID 0 and half RAID 1.

Warning to RAID manufacturers: If you don't do it, I will :)

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Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle

It's got similar specs to my DS207+ so I'd expect ~20-30MB/s read and 15-20MB/s write (assuming gigabit networking).

Nearly half the price I paid for my DS207+ earlier this year!!

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hmmm - i'm getting them specs from my 109II (800mhz 256mb RAM) so it must be better than that....

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Originally Posted by zoomee

hmmm - i'm getting them specs from my 109II (800mhz 256mb RAM) so it must be better than that....

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Doubt it, the CPU/RAM & NIC are the bottleneck, not the 1 or 2 drive nature of it... the 207+ is only a bit slower IIRC.

Well, late last night I spotted that SCAN has this and a 1.5TB Samsung Speedpoint on offer in Today Only, so I bought one of the former and two of the latter.

I'm not that fussed about performance so long as I can get a shell and do some rsyncing - it's going to be quicker than my 266MHz N1200 any road.

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Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle

Doubt it, the CPU/RAM & NIC are the bottleneck, not the 1 or 2 drive nature of it... the 207+ is only a bit slower IIRC.

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doh! sorry - thought it had the same CPU and RAM as the newer QNAP models (1.2Ghz/512MB) - its still a VERY good buy though taking into account I bought my 109II at the beginning of this year (and now its end of life! :( ) and costs the same price....

Can't fault QNAP for their new V3.0 firmware either - its pretty awesome for linux noobs like me :)

Got mine, it's really good. Haven't really tested its throughput yet - need to migrate off my old NAS box first.

The web UI is very nice, but I stick to SSH most of the time.

Still, it has a tonne of configuration options and uses next to no power.

Just out of curiousity steve - does it have functions for auto-shutdown and auto-startup?

reason I ask is only the newer devices i.e. 1.2Ghz cpu ones seem to have this function - but no auto-shutdown for the older models :(

Yup, this one has scheduled poweroff/on.