QNAP TBS-464-8G-US 4 Bay M.2 NVMe SSD NASbook Intel Celeron N5105/N5095 4-core CPU, 8GB DDR4 Memory, and 2.5GbE (1G/100M/10M) Network Connectivity (Diskless)

Qnap had a great eco system. This little box is absolutely silent. I’m running 4x4tb drives in a raid 5 and get a little over 10tb. It’s kinda a niche product. You can get more space for less with spinning rust. I personally use it on the network I built in my semi truck and for that spinning drives seemed like a bad idea. It’s been a powerful little Plex box and an absolutely fantastic file storage box. It’s definitely well built and I wouldn’t hesitate to buy another one if I had a use for it. Setup is super easy. It has a ton of apps and docker so you can run almost anything on it. You will wanna some additional repos to get the most out of it. If you can get a dual 5gbe connection going to it you can read and write fast enough to saturate the bandwidth.

Easy set up, quiet, does what it is supposed to do

I thought this would be perfect for my new Home Entertainment NAS given the NVME Disks which are 100 times faster than old 3.5 inch, and even 2.5 SSD. It doesn't translate into performance though, it is as slow as if not even slower than 3.5 7,200 rpm hard drives. 16 Hours to do a 387 GB Backup, hours to copy and paste. Don't waste your money, build your own like I am going to do. In addition, now half the apps won't work.

There is alot to like here but the lack of memory expansion without sacrificing one slot to use as an SSD Cache. Means this thing is extremely hampered by tech limitations when performing more than a few tasks at a time. Using it as a media server and NVR pretty much tops the system out especially if you load new content on and it starts generating thumbnails.It surprises me that for the NVME version of this NAS they went to a plastic case. Drives with naturally higher operating temp you remove the metal chassis that acts like a giant heat sink??? They had to spend money on plastic tooling to build a less efficient chassis as far as thermal management goes... just an odd choice that adds significant development cost that has to be recouped over the life cycle of the product. They could have kept it metal and sold it a lower price point; enticing more consumers or price the same and pad their margins... Either way you look at it a bad organizational choice one of many that keeps this NAS from being perfect. That being said if you accept its limitations it does a pretty darn good job.

Incredibly fast. Maxes out at 5gbps due to nic speed but it’s silent, fast and rock stable. Highly recommend this model. I run raid 5 on 3x 2tb samsung nvme ssd and a 256gb Nvme cacheRunning a 8esxi VMware farm off of it flawlessly

Easy to setup. Ideal for small business or home setup

It's unfortunate that the previous reviewer had pretty problems making it work with 4 nvmes. However my experience is different with these setup:1 2TB iron wolf nvme ssd3 2TB Samsung pro nvme ssdAll are configured as single disks (no RAID nor JBOD) with thick and some thin volumes. No RAID because won't need it for performance and don't really need redundancy since I have snapshots enabled, backing up those snapshots and I have daily backups to an USB 3.2 hard disk enclosure with QuDedup. On top of that I have an on demand one touch sync backup on another USB 3.2 RAID 1 storage (bigger capacity since also using this to archive some things)I did have an issue with my first external storage though. HB3 is not happy with me assigning a volume name different from the Disk ID seen by the NAS. So has to rename that volume. Other than that, things are working great.Longevity is another thing that I will have to look at thought. So if something goes wrong l, will update. Otherwise, assume everything is running smoothlyTip for those new at this, do make sure you add qnapclub as an app repo. Lots of useful stuff there

TLDR: don't buy it. It does not support 4 NVMe drives. It can *only* support 2. Yes, you can physically plug 4 into it, however the broken operating system that QNAP wrote does not support 4 NVMe drives.Longer review:Here's what I wanted: an off-the-shelf NAS that had OK management and that supported 4 NVMe slots. This looked like it would fit. I came in with expectations pretty low. The operating systems on these pre-built NAS units tend to be garbage and that's what I was expecting.However, I did expect at least bare-minimum support for 4 NVMe's.As I stated above, the QNAP TBS-464 does not support 4 NVMe. I bought 4 NVMe's from one manufacturer, got errors in the garbage-interface ("The following disks have the same WWN (World Wide Name: ..." ). I assumed this was a manufacturing error of the NVMes. I shrugged my shoulders, returned those NVMes and tried 4 different NVMes from a different manufacturer. Same error.I dug into the problem, and the WWN is assigned by the operating system. Meaning, QNAP is responsible for creating and assigning these "WWN" to the individual NVMes. So... whatever half-assed algorithm they use to generate the WWN, it conflicts after only 2 NVMe's.For anyone who is familiar with programming, this is some exceedingly shoddy programming.Anyway, I reached out (politely) to QNAP. Explaining the problem, explaining the various NVMes I had tried, and providing full logs. In short, I gave them everything they could possibly need to fix the problem in their operating system.They strung me along for a couple of weeks. First, they said a fix was coming in a future version. I asked to test their Alpha or Beta version (I was volunteering to be a guinea pig for their developers). They ignored that offer and wouldn't say when a "fixed" version would be released. I asked directly when it be released. They just ignored the question.Then they said I was using incompatible NVMe's. I wasn't at first. The first round of NVMes I bought were from their "compatibility list". The second round of NVMe's, however, I chose NVMe's not on their "tested" list.Then, they just outright said they wouldn't fix the problem.A brief aside on "product compatibility lists": typically, these are lists of devices that are tested with during the engineering and quality-assurance phases of product development. They're not a "you can only use these drives / RAM / etc." list. I'm in the software/hardware development industry, so this is insider knowledge.And, at any rate, the first set of NVMe drives I used *were* from that compatibility list. So, QNAP just needs to fix their operating system.This is all to say nothing about the QNAP web interface. Dear god, it is awful. But, like I said, I walked in expecting an awful interface. It's slow. There are popups, and flyouts, overlays, and every screen has a completely different layout. In short: it's a mess.So, don't buy this. Don't wait for a fixed QNAP operating system, because they'll gaslight you and string you along. Not worth the headache.What am I going to do now? The one thing I didn't want to do: build a NAS by selecting individual components (MB, CPU, case, PSU, RAM, etc., etc,) and installing some a Linux distro on it. Because, in the end, if I had done that from the start, I would've wasted less time (and spent less money) than trying to use this pile of garbage.My advice: Don't buy it. And, frankly, avoid QNAP as a company.