TerraMaster, we NAS product manufacturer, recently released their latest affordable NAS series, a new design NAS series 2-bay F2-212 (or 4-bay F4-212), supporting TRAID, BTRFS file system, Snapshot, and TFSS providing stronger data backup and better home multimedia experience, which meet the requirement of personal and home users. The main difference with the older F2-210 series is the new design elements and color matching, a more fashionable and modern appearance design, better heat dissipation, lower noise, and more convenient installation and use. The new series includes an HDD tool-free hard drive tray design that makes easy installation and removal of HDDs without tools.

The new Push-lock design automatically locks the HDD tray when you insert the HDD, preventing the drive from falling out or disconnecting. Of course, there are more changes under the hood, with a new ARM V8.2 Cortex-A55 64-bit 1.7GHz 4-core processor making it able to run the latest TNAS vNAS OS, and also support the TRAID flexible disk array management tool which provides users with an optimized, flexible, and elastic disk array management solution. Moreover, support Snapshot and TerraMaster File System Snapshot (TFSS) based on Btrfs file systems, provide full data protection and recovery solutions in case of data loss, whether it is due to operation errors, hard disk damage, or ransomware attacks.

The F2-212 supports up to 44TB of raw storage, which can provide large-capacity private cloud storage for families and small teams. Equipped with the TOS 5.1 OS, which includes a large number of backup, file sharing and synchronization applications, data backup and remote work collaboration can be applied. Supporting the latest iOS and Android TNAS Mobile mobile client, users can use a variety of mobile devices to access and securely manage files anytime, anywhere, and by installing the Terra Photo application in the TNAS Application Center, users can use management tools to backup, share and organize classified photos. Can handle more demanding tasks and a higher number of concurrent users than its predecessors.

The 212 series products can also be integrated with a variety of public clouds, such as supporting Google Drive, Amazon S3, Dropbox OneDrive, and other cloud disk 2-way synchronization functions, open the data channel between your private cloud and public cloud disk, enjoy the convenience of cloud living and more secure data storage. The new ARM processor supports 4K video hardware decoding capability and is compatible with UPnP/DLNA protocol. With the firm’s dedicated Multimedia Server app or 3rd-party multimedia servers (Emby, Plex), it can stream videos to a variety of multimedia devices including smartphones, tablets, Roku, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, smart TV, delivering users constant, reliable entertainment experiences.

The F2-212 is available at Amazon and the company’s partners and resellers for a suggested retail price of $169.99.

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