QNAP Announces Home/SOHO NAS With PCIe Expansion

[Julio Urquidi]

The dual-bay QNAP TS-215B NAS, designed for home and small office use, is powered by Intel’s 14nm Celeron J3355 dual-core 2.0GHz processor, 2 GB or 4 GB dual-channel DDR3L SODIMM RAM (upgradable to 8GB) and supports 3.5”/2.5” SATA HDDs or SSDs.

TS-215B gives QNAP customers a single PCIe slot that can be used to add an expansion card, opening up options to add M.2 SSD caching, 10 GbE, wireless networking, or more USB 3.1 ports. Additional features include 4K HDMI output, AES-NI hardware-accelerated encryption and snapshot support.

Other listed TS-215B interfaces comprise of a single GbE LAN port, HDMI v1.4b, two USB 3.0 Type-A ports, three USB 2.0 Type-A ports, speakers jack, two 3.5mm microphone jacks, a 3.5 mm line out and an IR sensor (remote not included).

Available now, the QNAP TS-251B comes in two models, TS-251B-2G (1 x 2GB RAM) and TS-251B-4G (1 x 4GB). We’ll reach out to QNAP for pricing and update.

*****UPDATE*****

Pricing for the QNAP TS-251B-4G-US is $339 and the TS-251B-2G-US is $299.