THE TURBONAS TS-269L

Exactly like the TS-269 Pro and the TS-259 Pro+ before that the new TurboNAS TS-269L is almost entirely made by aluminum and measures 150mm in Height, 102mm in Width and 216mm in Depth while weighing a total of 1.74Kg.

As you can see the only difference between the TS-269 Pro and the new TS-269L is the lack of locks for the two drive bays.

The perforated section on the right side of the enclosure is pretty standard for every NAS server we’ve seen by QNAP.

At the left of the front fascia we see the usual HDD Status, LAN, USB and eSATA LED activity LEDs.

The on/off power button along with a one touch backup button and a USB 2.0 port are present at the lower left.

Once again the company logo is present at the front top of the unit.

Both drive bays are hot-swap ones so you can add/remove drives at will just like with any QNAP unit. You can use both 3.5" and 2.5" drives (HDD or SSD) which you can setup either in Single configuration meaning each drive is different, JBOD array where both drives act as one, RAID 0 array meaning splitting all data in both drives or in RAID 1 configuration with the second drive backing up the primary one.

The two Intel Atom and sequence/drive placement stickers are placed at the top of the enclosure.

As always with high end QNAP units the rear is not black but rather a grey color.

A single 70mm fan is used to keep the temperature of both drives low.

Next to the exhaust fan we see an HDMI output and the typical reset button.

Right beneath we see the 2 Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet ports, 2 USB 3.0 ports, 2 USB 2.0 ports, an eSATA port. the AC power plug and an Kensington lock.

The unit sits on 4 round rubber feet which you can easily remove if you want to save almost 2cm in height.

You can remove the top cover by removing the 3 screws found at the rear (however by doing so you are voiding your warranty).

The 1GB DDR3 SO-DIMM RAM running at 1333MHz is manufactured by ADATA (just like with the TS-269/469 Pro).

The UDMII Plus-C Flash Disk Module is manufactured by Apacer (again like the TS-269/469 Pro).

You can easily install up to an extra 2GB DDR3 SO-DIMM RAM at the empty rear slot (no need for it to be by ADATA).