NAS servers with USB 3.2 gen2 port

USB 3.2 gen2

— the number of USB 3.2 gen2 ports provided in the design of the NAS server.

USB connectors are used in computer technology to connect various external peripherals. In the case of NAS servers, we are most often talking about external drives - flash drives, hard drives, etc. In this way, you can transfer information from an internal drive to an external one (for example, for backup purposes) or vice versa, and even expand the total working volume of the server . In addition, on models with a VGA output (see below), a keyboard can also be connected to USB, and on models with a print server function (see “Software Features”), respectively, a printer. For added convenience, the USB connector can be placed on the front panel (see below).

Specifically, USB 3.2 gen1 (formerly known as USB 3.1 and USB 3.1 gen2) is the direct successor to USB 2.0 and is the most common USB standard today. This version provides data transfer rates up to 10 Gbps, as well as a fairly high power supply. At the same time, such connectors are backward compatible with peripherals using USB 2.0.