QNAP TS-231 2-Bay 2TB Network Attached NAS Storage w/ 2x 1TB WD Red Hard Drive

The QNAP TS-231 2-Bay 2TB Network Attached NAS Storage device is a powerful yet easy-to-use network storage centre for backup, synchronisation, remote access and home entertainment. With the Notes Station, you can easily create digital notes on your private cloud and share with friends and colleagues at no extra cost. Powered by an advanced ARM Cortex A9 dual-core processor, this QNAP TS-231 NAS delivers incredible performance as a home NAS with three USB 3.0, one eSATA, and dual LAN ports. See how this QNAP TS-231 NAS can enhance your digital lifestyle.

Includes Western Digital Red Hard Drives

This QNAP TS-231 includes the popular Western Digital Red hard drive for NAS devices and is designed and tested for compatibility in the unique 24x7 operating environment for the demanding system requirements of home and small office Network Attached Storage (NAS). Built in NASware optimises power use resulting in significant power savings and lower hard drive operating temperatures. This improves the overall reliability and performance of the drive and reduces the NAS cost of ownership.

Create digital notes on your private cloud

Notes Station provides a private and secure way to share and collaborate on digital notes. With just a few steps you can create notes from web pages (or by importing from the TS-231), edit notes with the intuitive web-based editor, and take screenshots for quick note-taking with Qsnap or the Notes Station Clipper extension for Chrome. You can also easily leverage the rich media contents stored on this QNAP TS-231 NAS to enhance your notes, and access them on your mobile phones or tablet devices by using Qnotes mobile app anytime, anywhere.

With flexible privilege settings for editing and sharing notes, you can build a secure environment to work together with friends and colleagues. In addition, the Notes Station enables you to create to-do lists and calendar alerts that can be updated to your Google Calendar, helping manage your daily tasks more efficiently.

High Efficiency with dual LAN support

This QNAP TS-231 NAS supports multiple port-trunking modes, enabling IT administrators to set up link aggregation to increase total data transmission capability. Failover and dual IP are also supported to ensure continuous system operations. The supported port-trunking modes include: Balance-rr (Round-Robin), Active Backup, Balance XOR, Broadcast, IEEE 802.3ad, Balance-tlb (Adaptive Transmit Load Balancing) and Balance-alb (Adaptive Load Balancing).

QTS - Simple and efficient

Thanks to QTS intuitive user interface, system operations of this QNAP TS-231 NAS are smooth and handy. Its intelligent desktop allows you to find desired functions quickly, create desktop shortcuts or group shortcuts, monitor important system information on a real-time basis, and open multiple application windows to run multiple tasks concurrently, bringing greater operating efficiency.

Access, use, sync and enjoy with your tablets and smartphones

This QNAP TS-231 NAS is your private cloud storage that virtually enlarges the capacity of your mobile devices. Qfile allows you to access, upload, download, manage, and share stored files easily as if you are all of your files in your pocket. If Qfile is installed on an iOS device, users can also browse videos and photos stored on this QNAP TS-231 NAS and play via Apple TV. Qmanager lets you monitor and manage this QNAP TS-231 NAS remotely and efficiently without turning on your PC, while Qmusic allows you to stream or download music from this QNAP TS-231 NAS to mobile devices.

Install-on-demand apps to extend NAS functionality

This QNAP TS-231 NAS has a built-in App Centre that provides various install-on-demand apps developed by QNAP and third-party developers, including tools for backup/sync, business, content management, communications, download, entertainment, and much more. It is also a centralised location for managing and updating installed apps. In addition, QNAP’s development platform embraces the open-source spirit to enable developers to create their own apps, adding potentially limitless opportunities for this QNAP TS-231 NAS.

Enhance productivity with eSATA and multiple USB 3.0 ports

Equipped with an eSATA and three SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports, this QNAP TS-231 NAS allows you to flexibly arrange tasks with a wide range of external devices without interrupting your current workflow. You can back up files to USB drives and eSATA enclosures, access data stored on SD cards via USB card readers, share up to 3 printers via network, and connect to a UPS to ensure a continual power supply.