After an initial surge of high-performance NAS solutions from many of the industry’s big players, QNAP has attempted to make its latest products more accessible to the mainstream consumer by doing away with high-power processors and large quantities of RAM.

This time last week, the Taiwanese outfit launched the four-bay TS-410, a feature-packed offering priced at around £315. Today, it’s following up with a two-bay alternative in the form of the TS-210. The good news for readers wanting to dabble in the NAS market is that this one’s currently priced at around £175.

Despite the relatively-low asking price, the TS-210 provides plenty of the usual QNAP functionality. The unit’s drive bays support 3.5in drives – providing up to 4TB of storage – and there’s a built-in iSCSI target service, Gigabit LAN and three USB ports for easy storage expansion.

As you’d expect, the TS-210 is DLNA-compliant and provides a host of QNAP goodies – including a built-in media server, download station, photo server and an AJAX-based web interface.

Given the price tag, though, there are a few features missing from the spec sheet. Being a two-bay unit, the TS-210 supports only a few RAID modes (0, 1 and JBOD), and the unit’s internal hardware – namely an 800MHz Marvell CPU and 256MB of DDR2 memory – might not be the quickest available solution.

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With its sights set on making network attached storage (NAS) solutions more accessible to the home user, QNAP has expanded its Turbo NAS line with the launch of the Prosumer-orientated TS-410.

The four-bay NAS, pictured below, features a quartet of hot-swappable SATA bays that support both 2.5in and 3.5in drives, giving a maximum theoretical capacity of 8TB.

Designed as an “affordable” solution, the TS-410 sheds the high-end hardware found in QNAP’s enterprise-orientated models in favor of a Marvell 800MHz CPU coupled with 256MB of DDR2 memory.

There’s support for RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 5+spare and JBOD configurations, and both RAID capacity expansion and online RAID level migration are present. Despite the Prosumer target, the TS-410 also retains a touch of high-end functionality with features such as a built-in iSCSI target service, dual Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, four USB ports and two eSATA ports.

As you’d expect, the unit is DLNA-compliant and provides a host of QNAP goodies – including a built-in media server, download station, photo server and an AJAX-based web interface.

Interested? QNAP has the TS-410 available immediately at a cost of £315.

Yeah that will be plenty powerful alright (!) QNAP Systems, Inc. announced a hardware specification change to the popular 8-bay TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS server.

QNAP has adopted the Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz CPU which will significantly improve the performance of the TS-809 Pro for data intensive corporate and entry-level enterprise and data center customers.

QNAP TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS is the world’s first 8-bay network attached storage server which incorporates vertically mounted hot-swappable SATA hard drives, with up to 16TB storage capacity, RAID 0/1/5/6/5+spare, Online RAID Capacity Expansion, Online RAID Level Migration, and other advanced features such as built-in iSCSI target with Thin Provisioning, AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, automatic policy-based IP blocking, volume status report, syslog server, schedule on and off, Wake on LAN, instant SMS alert, and 4 IP cameras for network surveillance etc..