The TerraMaster F2-210 is a high performance 2-bay NAS quad core network attached storage media server. It is designed for small and medium businesses who want to boost their productivity and efficiency. The F2-210 includes PCIe expansion for M.2 SSD caching or 10GbE connectivity, hot swappable HDD bays, and supports 4K ultra HD transcoding. Here’s a closer look at the TerraMaster F2-210 and what it has to offer businesses.
Design and Hardware
The TerraMaster F2-210 has a sleek and compact design that will look great on any desk or shelf. It measures just 6.3 x 4.1 x 9 inches and weighs 3.48 pounds. The front of the device has a status LCD panel that shows information on your storage usage, RAID configuration, network connection, and more. There are also two drive bays behind the door that support 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch drives. The drives can be configured in RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD, or individually mode depending on your needs.
The F2-210 is powered by an Intel Celeron J3455 quad core processor with AES-NI encryption acceleration and a burst frequency of up to 2.3 GHz. It has 4GB of DDR3L RAM (expandable up to 8GB) and two Gigabit Ethernet ports for fast data transfer speeds. If you need even more speed, there is an optional 10GbE add-in card that can be installed in the PCIe slot. The F2-210 also supports M.2 SSD caching for improved performance.
Software and Features
The TerraMaster F2-210 runs the TOS 4 operating system which is based on the Linux kernel. It features an easy to use web interface that you can use to manage your files, users, shares, backups, applications, and more from any computer or mobile device with a web browser. You can also install third party apps from the App Center to add more functionality to your NAS such as media servers, mail servers, cloud backup solutions, and much more.
The F2-210 supports file sharing protocols like SMB/CIFS, NFS, FTP/SFTP/FTPS, WebDAV , iSCSI target/initiator , rsync , AFP , Apple Time Machine , Beanstalks , OpenVPN server & client* (*need one free USB port). This makes it easy to share files with Windows, Mac OS X , Linux computers or mobile devices . You can also create multiple users and groups with different access privileges so that everyone can have their own private space .
For multimedia enthusiasts , the F2-210 includes a built-in media server that supports UPnP AV/DLNA media streaming . It can automatically index your media files so that they can be easily found and played using a UPnP media player like Kodi . The media server also supports real time transcoding of 4K H . 264/H . 265 video so that you can enjoy smooth playback on 1080p or lower resolution displays .
If you have a need for remote access , the F2-210 includes multiple options for connecting from anywhere in the world . You can connect over the Internet using OpenVPN client/server ( requires one free USB port ), DDNS , or EZ Connect . You can also use PLEXMedia Server to stream your media files remotely.