Friday, August 11th 2023
TerraMaster Launches F2-212 F4-212 and U4-212 Private Cloud NAS
TerraMaster, a professional brand that focuses on providing innovative storage products for homes and businesses, recently released new design NAS series F2-212, F4-212 and U4-212, support TRAID, BTRFS file system, Snapshot and TFSS providing stronger data backup and better home multimedia experience, which perfectly meet the requirement of personal and home users. Among the 3 models, the sample of F2-212 for review will be firstly available soon in August.
More Modern Exterior Design
The 212 NAS series adopts brand-new design elements and color matching, and has a more fashionable and modern appearance design, better heat dissipation, lower noise, and more convenient installation and use.
Install Hard Drives within 10 seconds
Tool-free hard drive tray design makes easy installation and removal of hard drives without tools.
And the new Push-lock unique design automatically locks the hard drive tray when you insert the hard drive, preventing the hard drive from falling out or disconnecting.
Support TOS 5 System and TRAID
Equipped with a more powerful ARM V8.2 Cortex-A55 64-bit 1.7 GHz quad-core processor, the 212 NAS series run the latest TOS 5 system and support the TRAID flexible disk array management tool which provides users with an optimized, flexible and elastic disk array management solution.
Snapshot and TFSS Protection
Support Snapshot and TerraMaster File System Snapshot (TFSS) based on Btrfs file systems, providing fully data protection and recovery solutions in case of data loss, whether it is due to operation errors or hard disk damage, and even ransomware attacks.
More Secure Private Cloud Storage
F2-212 supports up to 44 TB of raw storage, and F4-212 and U4-212 can support up to 88 TB, which can provide large-capacity private cloud storage for families and small teams. Equipped with the latest TOS 5 operating system, which includes a large number of backup, file sharing and synchronization applications, data backup and remote work collaboration can be easily applied.
Support the latest iOS and Android TNAS Mobile mobile client, you can use a variety of mobile devices to access and securely manage files anytime, anywhere, and by installing the Terra Photo application in the TNAS Application Center, users can use intelligent management tools to backup, share and organize classified photos. Can handle more demanding tasks and a higher number of concurrent users than its predecessors.
The 212 series products can also be integrated with a variety of public clouds, such as supporting Google Drive, Amazon S3, Dropbox and OneDrive and other cloud disk two-way synchronization function, easily open the data channel between your private cloud and public cloud disk, enjoy the convenience of cloud living and more secure data storage.
Home Multimedia Center
Powerful 4K video hardware decoding capability, and compatible with uPnP/DLNA protocol. With TerraMaster dedicated "Multimedia Server" app or third-party multimedia servers (Emby, Plex), it can stream videos to a variety of multimedia devices including smart phones, tablets, Roku, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, and smart TV, delivering users constant, reliable entertainment experiences.
The F2-212 is available now at Amazon and TerraMaster partners and resellers worldwide for a suggested retail price of $169.99. For more details, please visit
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More Modern Exterior Design
The 212 NAS series adopts brand-new design elements and color matching, and has a more fashionable and modern appearance design, better heat dissipation, lower noise, and more convenient installation and use.
Tool-free hard drive tray design makes easy installation and removal of hard drives without tools.
And the new Push-lock unique design automatically locks the hard drive tray when you insert the hard drive, preventing the hard drive from falling out or disconnecting.
Support TOS 5 System and TRAID
Equipped with a more powerful ARM V8.2 Cortex-A55 64-bit 1.7 GHz quad-core processor, the 212 NAS series run the latest TOS 5 system and support the TRAID flexible disk array management tool which provides users with an optimized, flexible and elastic disk array management solution.
Snapshot and TFSS Protection
Support Snapshot and TerraMaster File System Snapshot (TFSS) based on Btrfs file systems, providing fully data protection and recovery solutions in case of data loss, whether it is due to operation errors or hard disk damage, and even ransomware attacks.
More Secure Private Cloud Storage
F2-212 supports up to 44 TB of raw storage, and F4-212 and U4-212 can support up to 88 TB, which can provide large-capacity private cloud storage for families and small teams. Equipped with the latest TOS 5 operating system, which includes a large number of backup, file sharing and synchronization applications, data backup and remote work collaboration can be easily applied.
Support the latest iOS and Android TNAS Mobile mobile client, you can use a variety of mobile devices to access and securely manage files anytime, anywhere, and by installing the Terra Photo application in the TNAS Application Center, users can use intelligent management tools to backup, share and organize classified photos. Can handle more demanding tasks and a higher number of concurrent users than its predecessors.
The 212 series products can also be integrated with a variety of public clouds, such as supporting Google Drive, Amazon S3, Dropbox and OneDrive and other cloud disk two-way synchronization function, easily open the data channel between your private cloud and public cloud disk, enjoy the convenience of cloud living and more secure data storage.
Home Multimedia Center
Powerful 4K video hardware decoding capability, and compatible with uPnP/DLNA protocol. With TerraMaster dedicated "Multimedia Server" app or third-party multimedia servers (Emby, Plex), it can stream videos to a variety of multimedia devices including smart phones, tablets, Roku, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, and smart TV, delivering users constant, reliable entertainment experiences.
The F2-212 is available now at Amazon and TerraMaster partners and resellers worldwide for a suggested retail price of $169.99. For more details, please visit
10 Comments on TerraMaster Launches F2-212 F4-212 and U4-212 Private Cloud NAS
This range needs something else to sell it - like an M.2 SSD slot or 2.5Gb networking, otherwise it needs to undercut Synology on price. The TerraMaster OS and web interface is okay, certainly usable enough but it's a long way behind both Synology and QNAP. I'm an enterprise QNAP user of both QuTS and QuTS Hero interfaces, and even though it's great, Synology DSM is still the best offering by a decent margin. It's a shame Synology are just total d*cks about disk, ssd and RAM compatibility!
I'll stick to my DIY OMV NAS though, at least it's less chance of getting hacked, as it has no cloud services that I have no control over installed on it.
I'm sure bit rot can happen, but considering I've recovered data from half failed 15 plus year old floppy disks and the files that weren't corrupted due to the poor storage of the disks, didn't suffer from bit rot...
OMV looks pretty slick these days, it's obviously not super fancy, but as it's quite a basic NAS OS on its own, it doesn't need a super fance GUI.
Is it perfect, nah, but it does the job and it's regularly updated.
There's this though.
What is there to replace that these days, or is it a market segment that died for good?
www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/prime/prime-n100i-d-d4/
Maybe not the ideal motherboard, due to the PCIe x1 and only one onboard SATA, but that's obviously just something cheap.
The issue is cases, not really motherboards. None of the low power mini-ITX boards have been good to build a NAS around though, as there have always been some stupid compromise.
I got a "proper" NAS case with four hot swappable drives and obviously went a bit crazy on the hardware side, but I had the CPU and RAM and wanted something I wouldn't have to upgrade for years to come.
Jonsbo N1 or Node 302 are fine cheap NAS cases, Hot-swappable is nice but many of the home NAS options from the big players aren't hot-swappable at all and these things tend to get one or two disk changes in their entire lifespan.