TS-251+

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The TS-251+ is powered by a 64-bit Intel® Celeron® quad-core 2.0GHz processor and has 2GB/8GB energy-efficient DDR3L RAM (upgradable to 8GB) and dual Gigabit LAN ports, delivering up to 225 MB/s read & write speeds with port trunking mode. The TS-251+ can also automatically increase the processor’s clock rate from 2.0GHz to 2.42GHz when needed for CPU-intensive tasks. The TS-251+ supports AES 256-bit volume & folder encryption with transfer speeds of up to 205 MB/s, boosting system performance & security while ensuring the safety of sensitive personal data stored in the TS-251+.

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SKU: TS-251+

Description

Facing the increasing demand for data storage, sharing and multimedia processing, more and more users are looking for a NAS system with good performance and an affordable price tag. The Intel® quad-core TS-251+ provides an uncompromising high-performance scalable storage solution for professional users. Powered by the intelligent QTS 4.2 operating system, the TS-251+ performs as an easy-to-use yet powerful NAS for data backup, file synchronization and sharing, remote access and multimedia applications, and is ideal for users to create a secure private cloud to access their data easily.

  • Centralize your file storage, sharing and backup with excellent performance
  • Run multiple Windows®, Linux®, UNIX® and Android™ based virtual machines with the Virtualization Station
  • Operate multiple isolated Linux® systems as well as download containerized apps with Container Station
  • Play 1080p videos with the bundled remote control and multi-channel audio pass-through via HDMI
  • Transcode Full HD videos on-the-fly or offline*
  • Stream multimedia files via DLNA®, AirPlay®, Chromecast™ and Bluetooth® with multi-zone multimedia control
  • Quickly find specific files by real-time, natural search with Qsirch
  • Scale up to 10 drives with QNAP UX-800P expansion enclosure

Hardware

CPU Quad-Core Intel® Celeron® 2.0GHz (burst up to 2.42GHz)

Floating Point Unit V

GPU Intel® HD Graphics

Hardware-Acclerated Transcoding V

Memory System memory:
TS-251+-2G: 2GB DDR3L RAM (1 x 2GB)
TS-251+-8G: 8GB DDR3L RAM (2 x 4GB)
Total memory slots: 2 SODIMM
Expandable up to: 8 GBNOTE:
1. When installing two memory modules, please ensure that they are the same size and ideally use the same type of RAM for both memory slots.
2. For the information of RAM module installation and compatible NAS models, please refer to the QNAP RAM Module Installation Guide

Flash Memory 512MB

Drive 2 x 2.5″ or 3.5″ SATA 6Gb/s, 3Gb/s HDD or SSD; hot swappable trays

NOTE:
For the HDD compatibility list, please visit https://www.qnap.com/compatibility


Expansion Unit Max. 1 (UX-800P, UX-500P)

Gigabit LAN Ports 2

USB 2 x USB 3.0 (Front: 1, Rear: 1)
2 x USB 2.0 (Rear)

IR Receiver Yes (QNAP RM-IR002 remote control)

HDMI 1

LED Indicators Power/Status, LAN, USB, HDD1-2

Buttons Power, Reset, USB Auto Copy

Alarm Buzzer System warning

Form Factor Tower

Dimensions (HxWxD) 168.5 x 102 x 225 mm
6.63 x 4.02 x 8.86 inch

Weight (Net / Gross) 1.28 kg (2.82 lbs) / 2.32 kg (5.11 lbs)

System Fan 1 x 7cm, 12V DC

Kensington Security Slot 1

Power Supply External Power Adapter, 60W, 100-240V

Power Consumption (W) S3 sleep: 0.57
HDD standby: 10.56
In operation (typical): 18.09

Sound Level* Sound pressure (LpAm) :15.4 dB(A)

Temperature 0 – 40 °C

Humidity 5~95% RH non-condensing, wet bulb: 27˚C

Software

Operating System QTS 4.2 (embedded Linux)

Supported Client OS 1. Windows 7 (32/64-bit), Windows 8 (32/64-bit), Windows Server 2003/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2
2. Apple Mac OS X
3. Linux & UNIX

Supported Browsers 1. Microsoft Internet Explorer 10+
2. Mozilla Firefox 8+
3. Apple Safari 4+
4. Google Chrome

Multilingual Support 1. Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Storage Management 1. QNAP flexible Volume/LUN with thin provisioning and space reclaim
2. Disk volume types: RAID 0 / 1, JBOD, Single
3. Supports storage pools
4. Supports snapshots (4GB System RAM required)
a. Supports Volume/LUN snapshot (Max 256 snapshots)
b. Snapshot manager
c. Snapshot clone
d. Snapshot vault
e. Snapshot replica
f. Snapshot agent for Windows VSS and VMware
5. Online volume expansion
6. Online storage pool expansion
7. Online RAID capacity expansion and online RAID level migration
8. SMART data migration
9. Storage expansion via a QNAP UX-500P/UX-800P expansion unit
10. JBOD enclosure roaming
11. SSD read-only/read-write cache
12. Bad block scan and hard drive S.M.A.R.T.
13. Bad block recovery
14. RAID recovery
15. Bitmap support

Networking 1. TCP/IP (IPv4 & IPv6: Dual Stack)
2. Dual Gigabit NICs with jumbo frame (failover, multi-IP settings, port trunking/NIC teaming)
3. Service binding based on network interfaces
4. Proxy server (Squid Proxy Server via App Center)
5. Proxy client
6. DHCP client, DHCP server
7. Protocols: CIFS/SMB, AFP (v3.3), NFS(v3), FTP, FTPS, SFTP, TFTP, HTTP(S), Telnet, SSH, iSCSI, SNMP, SMTP, and SMSC
8. UPnP & Bonjour Discovery
9. USB Wi-Fi Adapter Support* Not all services supports IPv6.

Security 1. Network access protection with auto-blocking: SSH, Telnet, HTTP(S), FTP, CIFS/SMB, AFP
2. CIFS host access control for shared folders
3. FIPS 140-2 validated AES 256-bit volume-based and shared folder data encryption*
4. AES 256-bit external drive encryption*
5. Importable SSL certificates
6. Instant alert via E-mail, SMS, beep, and push notification service
7. 2-step verification* The data encryption functions may be unavailablenot available in accordance with the legislative restrictions of some countries.

File System 1. Internal Hard Drive: EXT4
2. External Hard Drive: EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, FAT32, HFS+

Power Management 1. Wake on LAN
2. Internal hard drive standby mode
3. Scheduled power on/off
4. Automatic power on after power recovery
5. USB and network UPS support with SNMP management
6. System sleep mode (S3)

Access Right Management 1. Batch users creation
2. Import/Export users
3. User quota management
4. Local user access control for CIFS, AFP, FTP, and WebDAV
5. Application access control for Photo Station, Music Station, Video Station, and File Station
6. Subfolder permissions support for CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP, and File Station

Domain Authentication Integration 1. Microsoft Active Directory (AD) & Domain Controller support
2. LDAP server, LDAP client
3. Domain users login via CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP, and File Station

myQNAPcloud Service 1. Private cloud storage and sharing
2. Free host name registration (DDNS)
3. Supports myQNAPcloud SSL certificates (DDNS)
4. Auto router configuration (via UPnP)
5. Web-based file manager with HTTPS 2048-bit encryption
6.CloudLink for remote access without any complicated router setup
7. myQNAPcloud connect for easy VPN connection (Windows VPN utility)

Qsync 1. Syncs files across multiple devices with SSL support
2. Selective synchronization for only syncing specific folders
3. Use team folders as a file center for greater team collaboration (maximum sync tasks:32)
4. Shares files by links via e-mail
5. Policy settings for conflicting files and file type filter support
6. Version control: up to 64 versions.
7. Incremental synchronization for HDD space saving
8. Unified privilege management
9. Unified configuration management
10. Supports central configuration mode
11. Supports remote erase / restore
12. Supports shared folders sync
13. Supports Windows & Mac OS

Web Administration 1. Movable Icons and personalized desktop
2. Smart toolbar and dashboard for neat system status display
3. Smart fan Control
4. Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
5. SNMP (v2 & v3)
6. Resource monitor
7. Network recycle bin for file deletion via CIFS/SMB, AFP, and File Station
a. Automatic Cleanup
b. File Type Filter
8. Comprehensive logs (events & connection)
9. Syslog client/server
10. System settings backup and restore
11. Restore to factory default
12. Mobile app: Qmanager for remote system monitoring & management

Powerful All-in-one server


File Server 1. File sharing across Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX
2. Windows ACL
3. Advanced folder permissions for CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP
4. Shared folder aggregation (CIFS/SMB)

FTP Server 1. FTP over SSL/TLS (Explicit)
2. FXP support
3. Passive ftp port range control

File Station 1. Supports mounting a Cloud Drive (such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon Cloud Drive, Yandex Disk and Box)
2. Supports mounting remote shared folders through FTP, WebDAV or Microsoft networking (SMB/CIFS)
3. Supports opening documents via Office Online, Google Docs or Chrome Extension (Edit Office files in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides)
4. Supports ISO Mounting (Up to 256 ISO Files)
5. Supports thumbnail display of multimedia files
6. Supports sharing download links and upload links
7. Supports sharing to other NAS users
8. Drag-n-drop Files via Chrome and Firefox Browsers
9. Photo, music, and video preview and playback with hardware-accelerated transcoding
10. File Compression (ZIP or 7z)
11. Creation of and sending download links for sharing public files with expiration date and password protection
12. Supports displaying subtitles (*.SRT, UTF-8 format)
a. Video seeking support for video playback during on-the-fly transcoding
b. Supports slideshow playback in media viewer
13. Mobile App: Qfile for file browsing and management

Transcode Management 1. Transcode video files to 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p resolution
2. Automatic video transcoding for watched folders
3. Hardware accelerated transcoding support
4. Embed subtitles into videos for background transcoding

Backup Station 1. Remote replication server (over rsync)
2. Real-time remote replication (RTRR) to another QNAP NAS or FTP server
3. Works as both RTRR server & client with bandwidth control
4. Real-time & scheduled backup
5. Backup versioning for RTRR
6. Snapshot support for RTRR/Rsync
7. Encryption, compression, file filter, and transfer rate limitation
8. Encrypted replication between QNAP NAS servers
9. Desktop backup with QNAP NetBak Replicator for Windows
10. Apple Time Machine backup support
11. Data backup to multiple external storage devices
12. Third party backup software support: Veeam backup & replication, Acronis True Image, Arcserve backup, emc retrospect, Symantec Backup Exec, etc.

Print Server 1. Max number of printers: 3
2. Supports Internet Printing Protocol
3. Print job display and management
4. IP-based and domain name-based privilege control

Photo Station 1. Show photos by thumbnails, list, timeline, or folder view
2. Supports virtual/smart albums
3. Validity control for sharing albums
4. Tag photos with text, colors, and ratings
5. Slideshows with background music and different transition effects
6. Animated thumbnails for videos
7. Geotag photos and display them on Google maps
8. Advanced search by tags, metadata, etc
9. Supports uploading photos/videos to Picasa, Flickr, Weibo, YouTube
10. Supports face detection (with the Photo Station Extension)
11. Supports PDF to image conversion (with the Photo Station Extension)
12. Share slideshows links to social websites or by email
13. Supports Facebook friends login
14. Backup/Restore album configuration

Music Station 1. Play or share music via web browser*
2. Automatic classification via Media Library
3. Supports streaming music to multiple devices.
4. Supports changing album covers via Google search or uploading photos.
5. Internet radio (MP3)
6. Up to 8 music alarms
7. Mobile app: Qmusic for music streaming and management
* DRM-protected content is not supported.

iTunes Server 1. Audio and video sharing for Windows & Mac iTunes

Video Station 1. Show photos by thumbnails, list, timeline, or folder view
2. Supports virtual/smart collections
3. Validity control for sharing collections
4. Tag videos with text, color, and ratings
5. Animated thumbnails for videos
6. Share video links to social websites or through email
7. Sort videos automatically into defined classifications
8. Display movie information from IMDB
9. Display movie posters from IMDB or user upload
10. Supports displaying subtitles (*.SRT,*.ASS, *.SSA)
11. Supports searching for subtitles online
12. Supports importing subtitles
13. Supports Facebook friends login
14. Supports custom video classification
15. Supports multi-zone video display
16. Video seeking support for video playback during on-the-fly transcoding
17. Mobile app: Qvideo for online video browsing and management

Cloud Backup Station 1. Amazon S3
2. Amazon Glacier
3. WebDAV-based cloud storage
4. Microsoft Azure
5. OpenStack

AirPlay & Chromecast 1. Streams videos, photos and music from the NAS to Apple TV via Qfile or Media Streaming add-on.
2. Streams videos, photos and music from the NAS to TV with a Chromecast dongle via Qfile , Qvideo or Media Streaming add-on.

App Center 1. Over 100 official and community software add-ons

Download Station 1. PC-less BT, FTP/FTPS, and HTTP/HTTPS, Thunder, FlashGet and qqdl download (up to 500 Tasks)
2. BT download with Magnet Link and PT support
3. Scheduled download and bandwidth control
4. RSS subscription and download (broadcatching)
5. BT search
6. Proxy support for BT download

Notes Station 1. A handy note-taking tool for everywhere you go via your private cloud
2. Direct and quick backup from Evernote with re-editing availability
3. Supports Google Calendar
4. Import/Export PDF file
5. RSS live feed and auto update
6. Online quick preview of multimedia attachments
7. Notes encrypt/decrypt
8. Smart snapshot for version control
9. Collaborate on notes with multiple users
10. Provides Chrome Extension: Notes Station Clipper (Clip web page content to your notes)

HD (HybridDesk) Station 3.0 1. Playback videos, music, photos on TV with KODI via HDMI
2. Watch various online content such as YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, Shoutcast, etc.
3. Web browsers (Chrome, Firefox)
4. Supports multi-lingual keyboard, input and mouse
5. Supports QNAP Qremote app and the official KODI remote app
6. Supports user login permissions
7. A variety of applications are available including Skype, Plex, and moreNote:
– The playback and quality of some video files may be affected by the system’s CPU and GPU decoding abilities.
– Up to 7.1 channel audio passthrough is supported

Virtualization Station 1. Supports Virtual Machine (VM) creation to run operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Unix and Android
2. Supports VM import and export
3. Supports VM cloning
4. Supports VM snapshots
5. Supports VM backup and restore
6. Support three different networking modes: Isolated, External-only and Bridged
7. VM console can be displayed via HDMI output – QVM
8. HTML5-based shared remote console

Signage Station 1. Supports dynamic content including videos, images, music, and text
2. Supports multi-user collaboration
3. Supports searching using keywords
4. Supports sharing by email and social network
5. Supports design software: iArtist Lite
6. Supports account authority management
7. Supports playback on various browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari)
8. Supports most viewed, latest released and different categories content list

Storage Plug & Connect 1. Creating and mapping shared folders by QNAP Windows Qfinder Pro
2. Creation of and connection to iSCSI target/LUN

iSCSI (IP SAN) 1. iSCSI target with multi-LUNs per target (Up to 256 targets/LUNs combined)
2. Supports LUN mapping & masking
3. Online LUN capacity expansion
4. iSCSI LUN backup, one-time snapshot, and restoration
5. iSCSI connection and management by QNAP Windows Qfinder Pro
6. Virtual disk drive (via iSCSI initiator)
7. Stack chaining master
8. Max No. of virtual disk drives: 8

Surveillance Station 1. Supports over 3,000 IP cameras
2. Includes 2 free camera licenses, up to 40 camera channels via additional license purchase
3. Instant playback to check recent events
4. Online editing to edit cameras during live view
5. Visual aid by e-map
6. Playback and speed control using the shuttle bar
7. Video preview on playback timeline
8. Intelligent video analytics (IVA) for advanced video searching
9. Surveillance client for Mac
10. Mobile surveillance app: Vmobile (iOS and Android)
11. Mobile recording app: Vcam (iOS and Android)

VPN Server 1. Secure remote access: PPTP、L2TP/IPsec & OpenVPN VPN services
2. Max number of clients: 30

VPN Client 1. Supported VPN protocols: PPTP & OpenVPN services
2. PPTP Authentication: PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP, MS-CHAPv2
3. PPTP Encryption: None, AES 40/128 bit, AES 256 bit
4. OpenVPN Encryption: None, AES 40/128 bit, AES 256 bit
5. Transmission package monitor
6. OpenVPN port control
7. OpenVPN link compression

DLNA Server 1. Supports DLNA/UPnP TVs and players such as PlayStation 3/4 and Xbox 360/One
2. Supported audio formats: AIFF, APE, DSD (DSF, DFF), FLAC, M4A, M4A Apple Lossless (ALAC), MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV (PCM, LPCM), WMA, WMA PRO, WMA VBR*
3. Support CUE indexing file for APE, FLAC audio format.
4. Video and Audio On-the-fly Transcoding
*DRM-protected content is not supported.

Q’center (NAS CMS) 1. Multiple NAS monitoring
2. Utilization history reports
3. Unified configuration management
4. Visual display reports
5. Monitor NAS behind NAT router with Q’center Assistant
6. Virtual appliances supported for Hyper-V and VMware

Designs and specifications are subject to change without notice.