THE TURBONAS TS-121

The TurboNAS TS-121 looks pretty much the same as the TS-221 but with a single bay since it measures just 216mm in depth, 67mm in width and 150mm in height and weighs 1.06kg.

Part of the left side is perforated to allow hot air to exit the device.

On the right side there's a large sticker with instructions on how to perform a quick setup.

At the front we see the usual fascia design that has the QNAP logo on the top right side and the activity LEDS, power on/off button, one touch backup button and a USB 2.0 port on the left.

Typically for a QNAP NAS the drive bay is hot-swappable, can fit both 2.5" and 3.5" drives and is made by aluminum.

Turning the device over we see an 50mm exhaust fan, eSATA port, 2 USB 3.0 ports, RJ-45 Ethernet port, Kensington lock, reset button and the DC power in.

The top cover is held in place with 4 screws at the rear. Once you remove them you just need to pull the cover backwards.

On the interior side of the PCB we see the Marvel 88F6282 2.0GHz CPU (beneath the large heatsink) and the 1GB DDR3 SDRAM chip by Hynix.

With the TurboNAS TS-121 we'll be using one of our Constellation ES.3 (Enterprise Capacity V3 3.5) 4TB SATA III HDDs by Seagate.