QNAP TS-209 II Turbo NAS

Web Interface

First we used just a single drive to test the basic performance and to see if a RAID array could be expanded from this without losing the precious data inside. Unfortunately this wasn't to be the case and when we came to add another disk for a RAID 0, RAID 1 or JBOD array the software warned us that all the data would be lost before making the new volume.

Unlike the TS-409 though, making either a single drive volume or simple RAID 0, 1 or JBOD volume takes next to no time instead of countless hours arranging the parity data. The longest time was spent waiting for the drives to format, which entirely depends on the size of the disks and a pair of terabyte disks took no more than five minutes.

Elsewhere the web interface is identical to the TS-409 - the disk interface shows off exactly what volume types are supported, and clicking on the images brings up the option to set up the new array type. The SMART disk data is clear to read allowing you to keep an eye on the drive, but we do encourage setting up the included email service because if anything goes wrong you'll know a lot sooner - especially if you put it out the way in a dark corner and forget about it.


The QPKG section allows additional features to be installed and for the most part the interface is incredibly simple to use. Sometimes though, it's difficult to find what you want in amongst the large list of options.


The online download and torrent administration works perfectly well, and it supports encrypted torrents or password protected downloads from FTP and HTTP for security and private servers. The file administration section is a little simple though it does the job, and for remote administration needs its certainly sufficient to upload, download, copy, rename, move or delete files. The many music directories we'd copied across unfortunately sprawled over several pages though, so keeping track of a large collection of files can be difficult.