QNAP 251D ALTERNATIVE?

Hi,

I'm a big fan of your site and there's so much great information. I'm looking for some help, I tried buying the QNAP 251D, but they're sold out everywhere with backorders going all the way to August and any other sellers are just purely price gouging. I'm not a hardcore NAS user, just want to upgrade and have more features to not rely on Cloud services anymore, upgradability in ram and network cards, and based on your videos, seems that QNAP is the way to go.

I like how you And I've watched some of your videos comparing 251D vs TS-253BE and was hoping you can shed some light if you can't find the 251D, what would be your second best alternative? comparable in 2 bay.

Thank you in advance!

Yes, there are shortages of Qnap NAS everywhere. But there are alternatives available. TS-251B is a previous model that is still a very good NAS. And there is TS-253Be which is a big brother for the 251D model. It features Quad-core CPU and also a PCIe slot for card upgrades.I hope this helps.