QNAP TS-262

A fast and vast private cloud storage with a range of multimedia and file management applications, the TS-262 is ideal for home users to maximize their digital lifestyle. Files, data and multimedia saved on the TS-262 can be accessed from all your connected devices, including phones, computers and smart TVs. A 2.5GbE port and HDMI 2.0 port come as standard, allowing you to enjoy lag-free multimedia streaming throughout your home and directly on your TV. The TS-262 can be geared up to fit future needs, supporting two M.2 PCIe slots for Qtier auto-tiering storage technology, and can be easily expanded to fit growing data needs. The TS-262 also supports Edge TPU, allowing you to easily organize your photos based on facial and object recognition with the QuMagie app.

Upgrade your home network to 2.5GbE

Wi-Fi 6 and 5G are becoming the new normal for networking, and there’s no reason why your home wired network shouldn’t also get a boost. The TS-262 comes with single 2.5GbE RJ45 LAN port which supports existing CAT5e cables. If your computers don’t have 2.5GbE ports, you can use QNAP’s USB 3.2 Gen 1 to 5GbE adapter (model name QNA-UC5G1T) to take advantage of the huge speed increase that 2.5GbE provides over standard Gigabit Ethernet. QNAP also provide affordable 2.5GbE switches and other adapters for you to take full advantage of the TS-262’s 2.5GbE connectivity.

Learn More: QNAP’s 2.5GbE solutions

Accelerate AI–powered image recognition and caching with TPU and PCIe expansion

The TS-262 has two M.2 PCIe Gen3 slots, enabling SSD caching or SSD storage pools for improved performance, or Edge TPU for AI image recognition.

• with 2280 form factors (sold separately) for boosting overall NAS performance. Qtier™ technology can also be used to empower the TS-262 with auto tiering that helps continuously optimize storage efficiency across all installed storage devices.

  Learn More: SSD cache, Qtier

• Accelerate AI–powered image recognition with TPU

  By leveraging a Google Edge TPU to QNAP AI Core (the AI-powered engine for image recognition), the TS-262 can perform high-speed face and object recognition. Google Edge TPU enables QuMagie to quickly process thousands of photos with high-speed AI Image recognition and classification, and QVR Face to analyze real-time video for instant facial recognition.

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  Learn More: Edge TPU Accelerator

SSD caching and auto-tiering enable 24/7 optimized storage efficiency

While SSD prices continue to fall, and SSD capacity and performance continue to increase, organizations can easily take advantage of SSD strengths. The TS-262 supports numerous SSD-aware features that significantly maximize NAS performance with high cost-effectiveness.

Learn More: QNAP’s SSD technology

2.5/5/10GbE network card

Enable lightning-fast throughput for bandwidth-demanding tasks (such as massive data transmission or fast backup/restore).

Learn More: QNAP network expansion cards

Wireless adapter

Install a QXP-W6-AX200 Wi-Fi 6 wireless adapter to turn the TS-262 into a wireless NAS. Or make the TS-262 a wireless access point by installing the QWA-AC2600 wireless adapter and the WirelessAP Station app.

Learn More: Wireless network expansion card

QTS 5. Fast, smooth, and easy-to-use!

The TS-262 supports the cutting-edge QTS 5, which builds upon its solid foundations with a smoother user interface and much more!

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The best storage for your high-resolution multimedia files

High-resolution RAW files eat up phone storage so quickly. Whether you are a photographer enthusiastic, YouTuber, or professional photo/video editors, use the TS-262 with high-capacity hard drives to alleviate your storage anxiety and organize files efficiently as the best storage center.

RAID protection

RAID redundancy protects data against hard drive failure. By dedicating some drives to redundancy, if a drive fails you can simply replace it with a new drive and avoid data loss.

Learn More: RAID management

Storage for massive photos

The AI-powered QuMagie with intelligent face and object recognition brings you the ultimate photo management and sharing solution. Includes timeline scrolling, customizable folder covers, iOS® Live Photo display, a powerful search tool, and more.

Learn More: AI-powered QuMagie, QuMagie Mobile App

10x faster image recognition with Edge TPU

Affordably leverage the Edge TPU to empower QuMagie for quickly processing thousands of photos with high-speed AI Image recognition and classification.

Learn More: Edge TPU Accelerator

Storage for music collections

Use Music Station to collect and play lossless music, sing along with lyrics, and share albums, playlists or folders with friends and family. You can also put tons of music right in your pocket using the Qmusic mobile app.

Learn More: Music Station, Qmusic mobile app App

Store high-resolution videos

Centrally collect GoPro diaries, videos of your family, friends, and pets in Video Station, and easily share your favorites. Take all your videos with you on your mobile devices using the Qvideo mobile app.

Learn More: Video Station, Qvideo mobile App

Stream all your media to every device in the house

The TS-262 is a complete multimedia center, allowing fast and easy streaming for photos, music and video to TVs, computers and mobile devices.

An easy-to-use, all-in-one backup solution

The TS-262 can do many things, but at its heart is a complete backup solution to protect your files and data. By regularly backing up your files and device content, you can make data loss a thing of the past.

Back up Windows®/Mac® files

For Windows®, install NetBak Replicator to back up your PC to the TS-262. In macOS®, simply set up the built-in Time Machine® to back up files to NAS.

Learn More: NetBak Replicator utility

Back up photos on mobile devices

Install Qfile or QuMagie mobile app and enable the “auto-upload” function. Photos will be automatically uploaded to your TS-262 as soon as they are taken.

Learn More: QuMagie Mobile app

Back up Google Drive™

Hybrid Backup Sync can safely back up files and data from Google Drive™ to the TS-262, helping you save money on cloud storage costs.

Back up NAS files to the cloud

Hybrid Backup Sync supports all your favorite public cloud services, allowing you to effortlessly back up or sync NAS files to cloud storage.

Learn More: Hybrid Backup Sync multi-cloud backup

Back up WordPress sites

Enjoy efficient WordPress backup/restore and site migration by leveraging the user-friendly Multi-Application Recovery Service (MARS), and easily batch backup WordPress files and database to the TS-262 with backup scheduling.

Learn More: WordPress backup solution

Protect your data from ransomware threats with Snapshots

Snapshots are an advanced backup method and are normally reserved for high-end business NAS. QNAP provides snapshots as standard for all NAS – including the TS-262. Snapshots work by recording the current state of the system, allowing it to be restored back this state at any time - greatly helping in mitigating the threat of ransomware.

Tips for a more productive workday

With a wide range of awesome apps, you can easily access files from various devices, instantly synchronize files with friends’ or colleague’s devices, quickly find specific files, and automatically organize your documents and media files. You can also map the TS-262’s shared folders as network drives on your computers, making accessing NAS files easy and intuitive. The TS-262 helps you save time while being more efficient and productive.

Easily build a wallet-friendly home surveillance system!

With the subscription-based QVR Elite smart surveillance solution you only pay for the channel licenses you need, allowing you to affordably safeguard your property. You can arrange a dedicated, independent storage space for surveillance data on the TS-262 and enjoy simplified camera management, storage space allocation, camera live viewing and playback. Recordings are saved as MP4 files for playback on nearly every device. You can also use USB webcams as network cameras with the QUSBCam2 app, and remotely monitor your surveillance feeds at any time with the QVR Pro Client companion mobile app.

• Free embedded channels

  2 IP camera channels

• Subscription-based

  Monthly US $1.99 /channel

• Mobile app

  QVR Pro Client and mobile app

• Video format

  MP4

• Total camera channels

  Scalable with optional licenses

• Scalable storage

  NAS expansion units

Flexible and economical storage expansion

QNAP provides easy and affordable solutions to expand your NAS storage capacity.

Attach QNAP expansion enclosures

Connect expansion enclosures to the TS-262, and manage NAS storage expansion with the user-friendly Storage & Snapshots Manager app.

Mount cloud storage or remote file servers

Mount cloud storage or remote file servers to expand the capacity of the TS-262 while also centrally managing files on the NAS, cloud storage, and remote devices.

Migrate to a new NAS

Install your NAS hard drives into a larger QNAP NAS and retain all your existing data and configurations.

Upgrade RAID capacity

Hot-swap lower-capacity drives with larger-capacity drives to expand your NAS capacity so it can grow with your files and multimedia collections.

Extend hardware warranty up to 5 years

The TS-262 is backed by a 2-year warranty at no additional cost. You can also purchase a warranty extension that extends your warranty coverage up to 5 years.

Hardware Specificaton

TS-262-4G

CPU	Intel® Celeron® N4505 2-core/2-thread processor, burst up to 2.9 GHz
CPU Architecture	64-bit x86
Graphic Processors	Intel® UHD Graphics
Floating Point Unit
Encryption Engine	(AES-NI)
Hardware-accelerated Transcoding
System Memory	4 GB on board (non-expandable)
Maximum Memory	4 GB
Flash Memory	4GB (Dual boot OS protection)
Drive Bay	2 x 3.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s The system is shipped without HDD. For the HDD compatibility list, please visit https://www.qnap.com/compatibility/
Drive Compatibility	3.5-inch SATA hard disk drives 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drives 2.5-inch SATA solid state drives
Hot-swappable
M.2 Slot	2 x M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 3 x1
SSD Cache Acceleration Support
2.5 Gigabit Ethernet Port (2.5G/1G/100M)	1 (2.5G/1G/100M/10M)
Wake on LAN (WOL)
Jumbo Frame
PCIe Slot	1 Slot 1: PCIe Gen 3 x2
USB 2.0 port	2
USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) Port	2 x Type-A
IR Sensor	(Optional QNAP RM-IR004 remote control)
HDMI Output	1, HDMI 2.0
Form Factor	Tower
LED Indicators	Power/Status, LAN, USB, HDD1-2
Buttons	Power, USB copy, Reset
Dimensions (HxWxD)	168 × 105 × 226 mm
Weight (Net)	1.55 kg
Weight (Gross)	2.68 kg
Operating Temperature	0 - 40 °C (32°F - 104°F)
Storage Temperature	-20 - 70°C (-4°F - 158°F)
Relative Humidity	5-95% RH non-condensing, wet bulb: 27˚C (80.6˚F)
Power Supply Unit	65W adapter, 100-240V
Power Consumption: HDD Sleep Mode	8.198 W
Power Consumption: Operating Mode, Typical	12.448 W Tested with drives fully populated.
Fan	1 x 70mm, 12VDC
System Warning	Buzzer
Kensington Security Slot
Max. Number of Concurrent Connections (CIFS) - with Max. Memory	1500

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