Review on 💾 Optimized QNAP TS-873-4G 8-bay NAS featuring AMD R-Series Quad-core 2.1GHz CPU and Four 1GbE Ports by Tory Richardson

Pros: It does what it's supposed to do. For 4TB x2 drives in Raid 1, the maximum connection is 1GB, as expected. Ethernet multi-interface to connect or isolate containers/virtual machines. Cons: Came with a dead rear fan. Replaced with a high pressure fan I got from an old radar and it whispers pretty good. The standard 4 GB of storage is used up very quickly when you add almost everything. The privacy policy is a joke. Please block the NAS from communicating with the Internet. Overall: It's not as fast as the homebuild it replaced, but it's pretty and less power-hungry. There is also less headache to deal with. Turn it on, move some data and it works. QNAP isn't really for the average home user, but more for those who are tech-oriented as it's not easy or quick to set up. Getting back to the reason for using a NAS, you're not hosting data on someone else's servers that you don't control. The amount of "usage data" sent for each app is staggering. I really don't want my photos or worse w2 documents to be shared with any third party without my express consent. I would really appreciate if there was a universal refusal to even send telemetry data. Because of this, the device is blocked for web access.