💪 High-Performance QNAP 4-Bay NAS/iSCSI IP-SAN | AMD R Quad-core, 10G-ready (TVS-473e-4G-US) Review

I had a QNAP TS-451 that I bought 4 years ago and had a hardware problem. It still worked, but no more drives were showing up in bay 4. I contacted QNAP support for repair options. It turned out that a post-warranty repair would cost more than half the cost of a new unit and could take several weeks, so I figured it was time to upgrade. The TVS-673e had great reviews from every source I checked, and the Revain was "used-like new" for over $200 less than new. I realized it was covered by the…

My brief pros and cons of this QNAP NAS: Pros: - Good workmanship - 4-bay and easy sled installation - Physical and virtual RAID -Arrays - Expandable interface and storage - 4 Ethernet ports - High speed processor - Multi-line LCD display - Redundant USB port - Fully customizable settings - Applications - User and file security - LCD, keyboard and mouse can be connected - Remote or local access. Cons: - Initial setup can be a bit tricky. This device is great and fully customizable with many…

I rarely buy anything and it far exceeds my expectations, but I have to say, that this product has met expectations. I was a bit reluctant to buy as I didn't really want to spend that much on a media server to run Plex and a file server with RAID, but after reading about it I decided to give it a try. I'm fairly technical (this setup replaces a standalone Plex server running Linux from the command line and the old ReadyNas NV+ which is pretty finicky these days) and expect to have to do a lot…

When I bought this I had a vision of a centralized NAS that would serve multiple purposes (shared drives, backup, media server, DNS server, DVR). Unfortunately, documentation is lacking, performance is lower than I expected, and some of the tasks I had in mind just can't be done. After purchase I added 32GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. First, it only supports SATA M.2 SSDs, not NVMe. Second, the SSD works so hard that it's practically useless. Even after adding a huge heatsink to the SSD, it still…

I just bought this QNAP TVS-873e from Revain and received it today. I followed the quick install guide, installing 2 x M.2 drives, 2 x 2.5" drives in bays 1 and 2, and 6 x 4TB drives in bays 3-8. All hardware is in Hardware Compatibility List: 2x 1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD2x Western Digital 1TB WD Red SA500 M.2 SSD3x WD 4TB 7200 WD4003FFBX-68MU33x WD 4TB 7200 WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 After installing each drive, the device recognized the drive and showed that to drives both in the storage manager and on…