💻 TS-253D-4G 2 Bay NAS: Intel Celeron J4125 CPU with Two 2.5GbE Ports, Ideal for Professionals Review

I have several QNAP products and I want to like your product but I just can't. With every firmware version something new comes out. I currently have 2 active and tested bugs for a VPN not working with QNAP support. Your NAS has a beautiful user interface and just keeps getting better. As an IT professional, I find the performance to be as expected. But I had a device that failed to rebuild the RAID as claimed so I lost all my data. Luckily I have backups. Another device died right after the…

Of course, after I bought this product, it turned out that there is malware that can steal your documents as well as your usernames and passwords. This can leave your entire home network vulnerable to ransomware. Not much has been released about how this malware intrudes or what steps have been taken to fix it, just the usual "updating the firmware". I love having a NAS at home, but I cannot currently recommend this product due to the security of your system. This should be the number 1…

I bought one of these because I was tired of using my own storage solutions for very simple use cases and I needed a 2.5GbE connection for some extra network speed . . I ended up comparing this to a QNAP 2.5GbE switch (QSW-1105-5T). So far only positive experiences. The performance was great and the interface was easy to use. Benefits + Fast. + Easy to use web interface. + 2.5GbE network. Cons: No built-in M.2 slots. released a fairly affordable version of the QSW-1105-5T.

I had high hopes, but I really regret that I chose this NAS. Setup was easy enough, but the installation process for the software I needed wasn't intuitive. And I was ready for that, but then I realized that all of the software they boast about requires licensing fees, including the software license required to access external hard drives that use exFAT. If I had to do it everywhere, I would choose Synology. In fact, I've decided to build my own home server or at least buy one so I know it has…

I would like to return this unit but unfortunately the disks took so long to ship that I was unable to return them. The NAS emits very loud beeps several times during startup (each beep represents a phase of its startup). It takes over 5 minutes to fully load, allowing me to load the login screen over the web. Registering the device on the network with my router takes more than a minute. Creating an empty RAID 5 with 4 HD took many hours to fully optimize the RAID 5 array even though there was…

I mainly use my NAS for audio and video storage. I needed more storage space than I had on my ASUSTOR NAS and decided to try QNAP. There have been intermittent issues with HDMI audio output since the beginning. Sometimes I have sound, sometimes it gets distorted and interrupted, and then (LIKE NOW!) it all goes haywire. Also constant flickering on the video. Got an open service ticket with QNAP, but this is getting pretty annoying. It actually took me more than the 30 day DOA Revain policy to…

This is my second NAS, my first was a Synology 412+, its main purpose is to double as a multimedia server for music and video too serve as a backup of my computers and, in the case of my old NAS, now acts as a media backup for this new QNAP NAS that was purchased to increase capacity beyond Synology's maximum capacity of 16TB (<11TB in RAID 5 configuration). to increase. This time, I chose QNAP as the feature set wasn't available on a comparable Synology, but was surprised that QNAP doesn't…

I've read a lot of comparisons with Synology Diskstation. I've been using Synology for 10 years. It was pretty good, but I didn't do anything other than use it as storage and reverse proxy. Tried to get cheaper surveillance camera licenses that Qnap has. It's better than I expected. There are many reviews of poor user interface. I think the UI is fine for me. Lots of fun with lots of customization although I had to do a lot of research to decide on a configuration. I mainly use it for security…