The Best 2-Bay NAS of the Year (2023/2024)

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Awesome, I'm a possessor of the might 251D from qnap, and still keep watching and be updated with your work, that is very great and super informative, I'm really happy to see how far they goes with the powered cpu's as well, those are in my opinion too, the best 2 bay nasses of the yer, great choices!

P.S. Other than that, I'm still very happy user of the ts 251D from qnap, updated regularly, upgrade to 32 gb of ram (not officially supported but it works perfectly) with several virtual machine, a lot of containers and it works flawlessly, for my needs I had to replace also the hdd with ssd, sata, for the noises but now all is perfect 🎉

Synology: the worst CPU, the least memory, the slowest LAN, the most expensive and yet, on top 3 list - seriously? who paid for this video? pathetic

I just got my Asustor AS5402t and am glad I made this choice. I'm running 2 8TB Toshaba NAS drives (RAID1) and, 2 2TB SSDs (RADIE1) and 1 cache SSD. The flexibility and speed (dual 2.5GBE network ports!) of this NAS is amazing. I was happy to find that there is an Omada app available for the NAS (saving $100 over buying the TP-Link module). Finally, there looks to be a decent surveillance app, which I plan to use when I install some cameras at home. All in all, for $369 base price this NAS offers a LOT of power.

I've subscribed recently and find incredible that you are able to produce in depth and quite lengthy content to be published about every day. I'm impressed!

What about top 2 bay budget NAS ;)

Thank you for the video! I love hearing about the variety of NAS even though I have decided and invested in a DS1522+

If you get around to it I would be interested in hearing what people do with their OLD NAS
I have started out with a DS 220j and now I have it sitting on the shelf doing nothing...
What is a good use for such a thing when you already have a much better NAS.

Great video! What are the differences between the TS-262 and TS-264?

Can;t wait to see "The safest NAS" review in 2024. Less vulnerable from hackers.

I just setup a QNAP TS-264 NAS and am very happy with it running 2x Seagate Exos X14 14TB drives and 2x 1 TB nvme cache storage, so far I am very pleased. Also as it seems the ones being sold now have the expanable memory slots as mine did, popped in 16GB and its running fine. Part of me wishes I went for the 4 bay but honestly, I only have about 3.5TB filled up so far with 8TB left so I think I am good for quite a long while by then the newer NAS will be even more powerful :)

My 2 bay Qnap ts251+ has finally broke down after many years using for mainly streaming movie and music backups across my network, what would you recommend as an up to date upgrade in 2024?

which one would be easier to use with the mobile app? synology or qnap? I just wanna upload photos and videos in an easy way remotely