QNAP TS-233-US 2 Bay Affordable Desktop NAS with ARM Cortex-A55 Quad-core Processor and 2 GB DDR4 RAM (Diskless)

I am giving the NAS five stars for quality and ease of use once it is setup. It receives four stars for difficulty of setup. The manual tells you how to install the hard drive and download the app, any of assistance is not covered. I had to search You Tube for a tutorial video by an independent publisher.Once setup it is smooth sailing from there. This NAS runs $30-40.00 cheaper than all the others here on Amazon or anywhere else. It s a high quality product with a solid build. I set this up on a Mac and it was discovered right away without a problem. I highly recommend that you checkut before shelling out more money for something that does the same thing.

I purchased the QNAP TS-133-14WD-US 1-Bay Home NAS with 4TB Storage to replace my old Seagate Personal Cloud Home Media Storage Device (4TB) from 2017. The QNAP NAS offers significantly more power and many modern features, including a built-in web server with support for PHP and MySQL. Overall, I'm very happy with this upgrade!

I use it to stream videos to Roku and as a central file location for multiple clients. I can save files to it with my PC and then access them using my Phone (Android). For sensitive documents this seems much safer than using "the cloud". I can hear it when I'm in the room where it sits (I have old fashioned spinning platters) but it is not objectionably loud or distracting. I found all the various software modules to be very confusing.

I bought this system because I wanted RAID redundancy and my Dad and I both bought the same systems intending to backup also save our backups to each other's NASs remotely. QNAP says this a a core feature and has software to do it. Every step of the step of for this product has been incredibly difficult. My dad is an electrical engineer who designed tech systems at a university and I am a fairly tech savvy analyst who is used to troubleshooting problems and this set up has driven us crazy. We follow what seems to be simple, clear, if sparse, directions on QNAP's website and run in to problem after problem. Some we have solved with a few hours of trouble shooting. Backing up to each other we still have not been able to solve after days of trouble shooting and messaging back and forth with QNAP support, with so far mediocre assistance from QNAP. While I can get basic connectivity from the drive and have the RAID redundancy for my backup, this has so far turned out to be a really expensive and time-wasting external drive. Do yourself a favor and just by a couple of plug-and-play external drives for your home backup needs if not an IT professional.

You don't need all the bells and whistles to have an effective Cloud Backup. It took a bit of doing to get it running, the drive build and intranet network speeds are excellent. I can connect an external 3.5/5G NIC but thus far, no need. It runs great, just using a pair of older 500GB drives in RAID1 and it's speeds and access times are fantastic. The 2 GB of RAM beats the hell out of competitor's 1GB solutions and while it's a bit sluggish on some apps (that normally require 4GB or more) they do function. I have it firewalled, CLAM AV protected and with Malware screening. Using it as a personal cloud backup for my phone, for my Fiancée's phone and for our files and photos on PC too. Much faster than any cloud service available and super cheap to maintain. Using old drives that were collecting dust for online storage that would cost hundreds of dollars a year to maintain. Taiwan based company so the security is solid and the network is secure.I wanted the 2.5 Gig version (my internal network is all 2.5/5/10Gig Switches and NICs but I'm satisfied with 1G transfers. It's faster than the reviews online about it (maybe because my internal network is WIRED) because I'm not using it as a wifi NAS. All Hardwired. Can't beat what I paid for it. 169 Open Boxed (never used), I will buy this again.Minimum investment for maximum gain. RAID 1 is solid and took a couple hours to synchronize (2) for 500GB, so expect massive sync times if you go up to the maximum supported drives (18GB per drive).