QNAP TS-264 review
This review first appeared in issue 358 of PC Pro. Q NAP makes so many NAS enclosures that it can be hard to place specific models within the range. The TS-264 comes under the “Mid-range First Choice” bracket, which is QNAP’s way of saying it’s intended for small offices, homes and micro businesses. The “2” tells you this is a two-bay device, accepting up to two 3.5in or 2.5in drives. Inside there are NVMe slots capable of accepting up to two 2TB SSDs, which can be used as storage or an SSD cache for the hard disks. QNAP pairs an Intel Celeron N5095 processor with 8MB of onboard RAM, which can’t be further upgraded. At the back you’ll find an HDMI socket, two 2.5GbE connectors, two USB-A 2 ports and a USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 port, with another Gen 2 socket on the front panel. That’s not at all bad for this price, but if needed you can upgrade with a dual-port PCI-E 10GbE network card. There’s also support for various tower and rackmount storage expansion units, some of which requi...