QNAP TS-209 II Reviews

Based on the name alone, one would expect Qnap's TS-209 Pro II NAS box to offer more features than its predecessors-particularly our leader in this storage category, Qnap's TS-109 Pro. And while the former does allow for increased capacity, it does ...

Faster transfer rates than average, absurd number of features, informative front display

Not the fastest NAS box we've tested, features not at all different from previous models, only USB connections for external backup

, anything, for the TS-209 Pro II's benchmark performance. It does not. In fact, even after we added a speedy Velociraptor drive to the unit to eliminate any kind of hard drive bottleneck, the TS-209 Pro II was still unable to top the TS-109 Pro in ...

With the TS-209 Pro QNAP extends their professional NAS series with a dual bay, RAID capable product. It features all the luxuries of the previous model with added redundancy or, if preferred, increased storage space.

Gigabit Ethernet, Very complete set of features, Easy to use, Ability to expand via USB or changing the OS, Data redundancy (RAID 1), Hotswappable, High performance compared to the competition

Not the cheapest on the market, Doesn't come with a hard drive

For a small company that doesn't use huge files or a demanding home user with a low budget the TS-209 offers a lot of value. The rich features and ability to expand make it a long term investment. Even though you could probably build a faster server ...

RAID Support, Good Web interface, Supports UPnP, PHP, Server functions

Poor Mac OS support, Comparatively expensive

QNAP's TS-209 Pro offers a compelling mix of server functionality and straight-up NAS backup options.