Welcome to Tech Brief, I’m your host, Laura Chen. If you’ve ever juggled phone backups, music libraries and videos around your home, a network-attached storage device—or NAS—could be a game changer. After testing six new NAS boxes, we named the QNAP TS-264-8G “the best home NAS for most people.” It’s “one of the fastest media servers we’ve tested,” thanks to its quad-core Intel Celeron processor, 8 gigabytes of RAM, and “forward-looking 2.5-gigabit Ethernet ports” for speedy transfers. With two drive bays, two M.2 SSD slots, HDMI output and an easy-to-use interface, it handles backups, streaming, VPNs and more—all without tying up your PCs.
If you need extra storage and redundancy, bump up to the QNAP TS-464—our upgrade pick with four bays. On a tighter budget, the QNAP TS-216G covers the basics and still outpaces many entry-level rivals. That’s your one-minute NAS roundup—thanks for listening to Tech Brief.
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