Review on 🔥 TS-431X3 QNAP 4-Bay High-Speed NAS featuring One 10GbE and 2.5 GbE Port by Justin Bradford

I've used QNAP in production before, so I already knew what to expect. In my experience, these are reliable devices and they get the job done, especially the main purpose of a NAS: acting as a backup drive and file repository/server. Forums where you are more likely to find clearer and quicker answers than the official documentation. The device is of high quality and usually quite easy to set up. However, you have to overcome many tricky hurdles to enable CIFS/SMB (Windows file share) and NFS (Unix/Linux/macOS file share (on it) and actually use it as a backup device. It should be a lot, much easier to find and set it up and the wizard should walk you through the first install as 99% of buyers want to use it as a backup drive over one or both of these protocols its kind of preventing you from installing Unix/Linux software that haven't approved them previously (their QTS is a variant of Linux). Of course, for the same general reasons that Apple and Google try to block iOS and Android, but it's still very, very annoying for tech-savvy people like this ( although there are ways around this and you need to research online if necessary) Ilozheniya, frankly, not enough, they simply work with commercial software providers who make him en ultimately want to sell something. For example, it's really strange to me that there is no available CMS to install other than Joomla, and no blogging platform other than WordPress or a MediaWikia wiki alternative (which is cumbersome to manage). Acting as a server of sorts, however, is just an additional functionality for what is primarily a backup storage device, and QNAP is among the top three vendors in the NAS market. Personally, I can't fathom the drastic difference between the two, other than knocking the pants off some of the non-top 3 providers. The tools for managing devices and logical volumes are pretty good. Potentially handy, but potentially a major security flaw, is that you can use it as a cloud server either directly or through an interface on QNAP's own website. I like this concept but I think it comes with too many things by default and it's too unclear what they mean and the potential for abuse when you enable it for the first time. Honestly, it's better to set up and test all the features of this device for a few days and decide what you want to do with it BEFORE using it as a backup. And make sure you create a proper user account with a unique password to act as the active admin instead of using the default admin account (and encrypting the password with that very long gibberish, but make sure your personal user account is actually set up that way (an administrator first!) since people trying to hack into your device's system use the built-in administrator account). Another silly thing is that pretty much whatever you install as QTS software works all the time. , at least in the form of a "stub" bootloader daemon. This is very similar to installing phone apps, but consumes a lot of RAM and CPU power. So don't install every QTS app you might ever find useful. Only what you want to use at the moment. If it turns out you don't use something, delete it. Another annoying symptom of this problem is that when you restart QNAP, it ALWAYS takes time to close all these applications and sometimes they just fail so you have to force quit. It's weird and pointless. No computer, be it a Windows PC, Linux workstation, Mac laptop, game console, router/gateway, phone or similar, takes even a fraction of the time that QNAP takes. shut down and/or restart. I'll call that a downright mistake; something in his process management is just twisted. But this is not a fatal problem, just an unpleasant one. In any case, this device works for me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and it has no performance/reliability issues. It's not the quietest thing in the world, but I also have a HEPA air filter and a computer running all the time, so the QNAP sound just dissolves into white noise. If you prefer absolute quiet, you may need a closet. Or, if you're DIY-oriented, get a Noctua fan for it (the quietest brand ever). Just keep the original in case you need to return the QNAP within the warranty period. Given the price, I think buying an extended warranty is a good idea, but only until the original warranty expires.