QNAP TS-253E

The TS-253E is a sensible business NAS that’s ideal for rolling out to multiple small offices

SCORE PRICE £423 (£507 inc VAT) from amazon.co.uk Many cheaper NAS enclosures must appeal to the crossover between home power users and the lower end of the business market. QNAP’s TS-253E has its sights set chiefly on the latter. It’s a two-bay NAS, capable of accepting 3.5in or 2.5in SATA disks, and packing a further two slots for NVMe SSDs. QNAP markets the TS-253E as a long-term model, which it says will be sold and supported up until 2029. That makes it ideal for businesses intending to roll it out in a standard, easily supported configuration across multiple workgroups, outlets or branch offices. The TS-253E has a similar spec to QNAP’s TS-264 (see p85), but it makes do with a less sprightly Intel Celeron J6412 processor. This is paired with 8GB of onboard…

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