The TerraMaster 2-Bay NAS meets Seagate’s New Massive Drives (part 1)

Tested Technology has a couple of entry-level two-Bay NAS devices, sent to us by the Chinese manufacturer, TerraMaster. Why two? Although the two machines are almost physically identical, one—the F2-210—is ARM-based while the other—the F2-221—uses an Intel x86 processor. Functionally they’re very similar, both using TerraMaster’s Linux-based TOS operating system. One difference is power consumption, the F2-210 being rather more economical on juice (see section Power Consumption below). There’s also a big difference in the… Now read on…