QNAPTS-462-2G-US 4 Bay Multimedia Desktop NAS with Intel Celeron Dual-core Processor with M.2 PCIe Slots and PCIe expandability and 2.5GbE (2.5G/1G/100M) Network Connectivity (Diskless)

Super petit nas pour vorte maison a un tres bas prix je ne regrette pas d'avoir changé mon wd ex4100 par celui si beacoup plus performant

I picked up the 4 bay 2 GB model on a Prime Day sale and really like this little NAS. I tend to prefer QNAP over other brands because they are not as fanatical about trying to lock you into their own hardware ecosystem. For $ 25 I bought a dual rank 16 GB RAM module and went from 2 GB to 18 GB without a hitch. This exceeds QNAP’s reported maximum for this unit, but it is within spec for the processor. The real gem on this device is the PCIe expansion slot.Rather than tracking down and buying an overpriced QNAP 10GBE card I bought a used PCIe Gen3 x 2 SFP+ card with a Mellanox chipset for about $ 30 and it works great. I had to take the mounting bracket off the card and improvise my own mounting solution, but I can live with that. Keep in mind that this is not officially supported by QNAP and I am using fiber transceivers. I highly doubt that this setup would work using the fiber to copper transceivers that are commonly available as of this writing.I have 4 10TB NAS drives and 2 1 TB NVMEs in the unit and am using QNAP’s Qtier feature. When writing to or reading from the NVMEs I get pretty close to QNAP’s published specs for 1 x 10GbE transfers. This is using the NFS protocol on a Linux platform, but I would imagine that using SMB on a Windows computer would be about the same.I pretty much just use this as a file server, so the embedded GPU was not much of a selling point to me. Others who utilize Plex or other media services will find that much more useful. I wish the CPU was a quadcore with a little more horsepower, but honestly it gets everything done that I need it to without bogging down. For the price I paid and how cheaply I was able to upgrade the system I am happy.

There are two things I noticed after using earlier 4 and 6 bay NAS units from QNAP.1. It is not all that easy to get the memory into this NAS.2. 3.5 inch drives do NOT have a locking bay3. M.2 SSD works well and is easy to installThe NAS itself is snappy and the only thing I would like to see is two 2.5GBs network ports but for the price, this NAS does an amazing job of serving files and movies.

Three months later one of the hard drives failed. I never trusted Seagate drives but foolishly decided to give them a try again. No more. The QNAP NAS itself is great but Seagate drives are not the way to go.

My advice? Don't buy this unit. It's god awful. Not very configurable, and with my particular unit, it's been having motherboard (I presume) issues. Have had cases open throughout these months and these "band-aids" support suggests don't do much. Been pleading for an RMA for so long (as someone who works in IT I've come across a lot of NAS's, and this is by far the worst NAS. My TS-451 was great until it crapped out after 4-5 years (disappointing in itself but I can let that one go though I feel it should have functioned for several more years).Honestly at this point, probably better to go with a Synology NAS.