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Up front the TS-269 PRO has LED indicators for HDD1 and HDD1, a Power button, a LAN indicator, an eSATA indicator, an OTB (One Touch Backup) button, and a USB 2.0 Port.
The top and sides of the NAS are bare, except for some ventilation on the left side of the chassis.
Around back you will find a 70mm fan to keep things cool, 2 USB 3.0 ports, the 2 Gigabit Ethernet Ports, the eSATA port, a power connector, 2 USB 2.0 ports, a password/settings reset button, a K-Lock Security Slot, and the HDMI port.
The TS-269 PRO features the same locking hard drive trays found in other TS-x69 models. This allows you to move drives around from NAS to NAS without having to remove the hard drives from the drive trays. This NAS also supports drives up to 4TB in size and hard drive transfer speeds up to 6GB/s. Having only two drive bays limits your RAID options as this NAS has only support for JBOD, RAID 0, or RAID 1.
Another missing feature this NAS has from its larger siblings is a front facing LCD panel; not because QNAP is cutting corners, but because there just isn’t room for one. With an LCD panel, the NAS will show you the IP address it picks up from your DHCP server/router as soon as it is powered on and ready for use. Without the LCD panel, installation and configuration pretty much requires that you use the QNAP finder software to locate your NAS on the network. Thankfully, the software is extremely clean and easy to use.
