Product Detail

Description: QNAP HS-251 Turbo NAS - NAS server - SATA 6Gb/s - RAID 0, 1, JBOD - Gigabit Ethernet - iSCSI

Mfr Part #: HS-251-2G-US

 

The HS-251, powered by dual-core Intel Celeron 2.41 GHz processor, was created as a silent NAS solution that allows users to enjoy files and media with no distractions, providing a perfect match for home theater enthusiasts and audiophiles looking to maximize their audiovisual experience and users who wish to constantly run their systems without any background noise. Coupled with the support of HDMI connectivity for 1080p video playback and hardware transcoding capability, the HS-251 is an ideal companion at home for multimedia entertainment. Being fanless, the HS-251 has no internal moving parts for improved reliability and remains clean and dust-free even after long-term usage. The HS-251 is excellent used with SSDs or WD Red and Seagate NAS drives as a reliable storage solution.

Key Points

• Modern and stylish
• Enjoy the HS-251 with the intuitive QTS
• Build your media center and access anywhere
• Real-time and offline HD video transcoding
• Archive your photo memories
• Build your home music library and enjoy music anywhere
• Dropbox-style file sync across computers and mobile devices
• Fanless thermal design and power efficient
• Surveillance station - protect your home and valuables
• A private space for work and sharing
• Access, use, sync and enjoy with your tablets and smartphones
• Economical storage expansion with scale-up solution

Product Features

• Modern and stylish
  Created for the living room with a fanless architecture, the HS-251 features a modern set-top design that fits alongside your HDTV, game consoles and other elements of your digital lifestyle. Underneath the stylish and compact brushed metal aluminum body, the HS-251 is packed full of features and apps to provide day-to-day entertainment, storage, and backup needs. The HS-251 is easy to use and maintain. With its accessible layout, adding and removing drives are remarkably easy even for beginners.
• Enjoy the HS-251 with the intuitive QTS
  Powered by QNAP's QTS's user interface, browsing the HS-251's wide range of features has never been easier. Featuring a multi-window operation with a familiar user interface, QTS makes controlling every aspect of your HS-251 - from system operations to multimedia features - fully accessible and easy to use.
• Build your media center and access anywhere
  From enjoying your media on HDTVs, smartphones and tablets to syncing files between different computers and mobile devices, the HS-251 can be depended on to be the cornerstone of all your home digital needs and becomes your personal cloud so you are always connected to your data.
• Real-time and offline HD video transcoding
  The HS-251 is the perfect video storage center for you to store your movies and home video collection. Powered by a dual-core Intel 2.41 GHz processor, the HS-251 delivers superior on-the-fly Full HD video transcoding to convert your videos to formats that can be smoothly played on PCs, mobile devices and smart TVs. It allows multiple devices to simultaneously view different videos stored on the HS-251. The HS-251 allows enjoying videos on multiple devices even those lack computing power and limited file format support without complicated and time-consuming file conversion.
• Archive your photo memories
  The HS-251 acts as your photo vault for you to back up your favorite photos. The photo station makes photo sharing simple, and you can designate your own access right controls. Simply upload your photos to the HS-251 to create and organize your photo albums through a web browser, and share with your family and friends through social networking sites such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest.
• Build your home music library and enjoy music anywhere
  The music station helps categorize your music collection, and displays album covers to easily organize your personal playlists. Through the music station you can enjoy your music anywhere anytime with a few clicks. Thousands of local and global online Internet radio stations are built-into music station for you to enjoy as well.
• Dropbox-style file sync across computers and mobile devices
  With Qsync, your HS-251 is turned into a safe data center for file synchronization. Any file uploaded to the HS-251 will be made available for all linked devices including computers, laptops and mobile devices. Qsync is especially useful for frequent travelers in managing files and ensuring that different devices have the most up-to-date files. Qsync provides multiple ways of file synchronization and group file sharing, greatly enhancing the flexibility of team projects and collaboration.
• Fanless thermal design and power efficient
  Instead of a fan, the HS-251 features a remarkable thermal design that intelligently dissipates heat, allowing us to create a sleek, modern design without the bulk of conventional NAS systems. This thermal design helps keep the HS-251 running smoothly even under the heaviest loads. The HS-251 is also eco-friendly, with power saving features including hard disk standby when not in use, and power management scheduling options.
• Surveillance station - protect your home and valuables
  The HS-251 provides a professional surveillance station to view IP cameras from your web browser and mobile devices. With the user-friendly interface and the expandable IP camera channel licenses, the surveillance station builds a professional surveillance center for you to safeguard your property and valuables.
• A private space for work and sharing
  The notes station provides a private and secure way to share and collaborate on digital notes. With just a few steps it's easy to create notes from web pages or by importing from HS-251, edit with the intuitive web editor, and even create to-do lists and calendar alerts.
• Access, use, sync and enjoy with your tablets and smartphones
  The HS-251 is your private cloud storage that virtually enlarges the capacity of your smart mobile devices. Qfile allows you to access, upload, download, manage, and share stored files easily as if you are carrying everything in your pocket. Music, photos and videos can be streamed, enjoyed and shared anytime, anywhere. Qmanager also lets you monitor and manage the HS-251 remotely and efficiently without turning on a PC, while Qmusic allows you to stream your music stored on your HS-251 anytime and anywhere, and download to enjoy offline.
• Economical storage expansion with scale-up solution
  The HS-251 offers a high performance yet affordable storage solution to fulfill the needs of archiving rapidly growing data and large files. The HS-251 supports online capacity expansion by connecting a QNAP expansion enclosure. With the QNAP scale-up solution, the raw storage capacity can be expanded on demand, making the HS-251 an ideal file center with large storage capacity for personal video collections.

Header / Compatibility:

• Mac

• PC

 

Dimensions & Weight / Depth: 22 cm

Dimensions & Weight / Height: 0

Dimensions & Weight / Width: 0

Header / Brand: QNAP

Header / Country Kits: United States

Miscellaneous / Product Color: Black

Networking / Data Link Protocol:

• Ethernet

• Fast Ethernet

• Gigabit Ethernet

 

Optical Storage / Type: None

Packaged Quantity: 1

System Requirements / OS Required:

• Apple MacOS X or later

• Linux

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later

• Microsoft Windows XP or later

• UNIX