QNAP TS-473-4G 8 Bay NAS with AMD R-Series Quad-core 2.1GHz, and Four 1GbE Ports

To this NAS I switched from a Synology DS1817+. I am so in love with it so far. The system is powerful and has a lot of options for upgrading. It now has 20 GB of RAM, thanks to the addition of two 8GB modules. DA2), which increased the speed of Ethernet by ten times. I receive and upload data at a speed of around 350 MB/s with RAID 5 configuration. There is a bottleneck in the speed Since RAID 5 read/writes data from and to three disks, there is a reduction in speed. Once I add more disks to RAID 5, the speed will increase. Also, I added a graphic card (MSI GTX) to the transcoding process. The fact that this card requires two slots forced me to sacrifice my SFP+ port, so I had to use a PCIe expansion cable (10cm) to extend the graphics card's connection. A configuration such as this works perfectly as it is only used to transcode. With this new feature, I am able to transcode movies right at my NAS with lightning-fast speeds. Please take note It is not possible for AMD processors to transcode. As well as upgrading it with two 500GB WD SATA drives, I also installed new cables. For caching data, we will use two memory sticks in RAID 0 configuration (RAID 1 won't help much for RAID 5 because SATA M is used. A maximum speed of 560 MB/s is allotted to the second device). There is only one major drawback to this QNAP NAS it only accepts SATA M drives. The maximum data rate is 570MB/s on two sticks. NVMe M can't be supported on this device. It can support up to 6000 MB/s with two sticks.

Flora Munoz

| May 06, 2021

My primary reason for buying this was so that I could use it as an iSCSI target for VMware, and it is a great match. An excellent interface for management can be found on the desktop. It is easy to find everything and intuitive, as well as nicely designed. The desktop is quite slick and eye-catching. There is nothing more ugly than the hardware I have not needed to contact their tech support yet, as I have been able to find everything I need either in the interface or on their website.
As a bonus, I discovered that the Surveillance Station app that comes The continuous recording feature was not even what I was looking for, but it works well and keeps the streams available at all times. While the native software from the manufacturer of the camera is inconsistent at best, this is a far superior solution. I also really like the Network Interface Management, with the ability to only bind services to each interface that you need. I turned off all other services on the port I connected directly to my server for iSCSI to prevent unnecessary broadcasts. I'm not often so impressed with a product, but this one proves it to be a very mature system.

Adrian Harding

| Jul 28, 2020

This NAS is fast enough to run Roon, so I bought it. When I finally managed to get it to work with Roon with my Roon, the audio worked fine. There is a music server ready for use. Basically, I put in two 3TB hard drives as well as I think this is good for music, but bad for home photos and videos and non-musical items The roof- You need a ready device. In the meantime QNAP has stopped supporting it) and everything is fine I do the same thing with my WD NAS. For users wanting Roon, this will work (but don't rely on the Roon website for support). You can use this simple tool if you want Once I installed DLNA on my NAS server, I had no problems with my single or two-drive systems The WD NAS has four bays. When I called QNAP customer support, they were very friendly and courteous, but they were not able to explain or help explain why their DLNA server was not working.

Aisha Preston

| Oct 31, 2020

The following cons A dead rear fan was included in the box. The fan I used was an old high-pressure fan from an old cooling unit and it runs really quiet.
With almost anything added to the system, the standard 4GB memory will be consumed very quickly. We have a joke of a privacy policy. Block the NAS from talking to the web at all costs. As a whole There is not as much a speed difference as in the old home build, but it is greener and less energy-consuming. Plus, you won't have to deal with any headaches. The program is easy to use by simply turning it on and moving some data. There isn't a lot QNAP can do for the basic home user, more for technology oriented people. It takes a bit of time and effort to set up QNAP, and it isn't very So to return to the main reason for using a NAS, it is so that your data does not reside on someone else's server. It sends a lot of data about how the applications are used. The last thing I want is my photos or worse my W2 documents being given to a 3rd party without my explicit approval. The idea of it being universally accessible would be fantastic Data transmission has been cut off even for telemetry. It is blocked from gaining access to the web as a result of that.

Charlie Kelly

| Dec 11, 2020

I've had my first one for more than ten years, and it's top quality. The RAM was upgraded to 64GB and the cache was increased to two 512GB m2 SSDs. I really like what the latest versions of QTS have done for the system. The NAS has everything that my last one lacked (PCIe slots / more RAM / VM and container support) and the tool-set to set it up I couldn't find on the previous one. A nice touch to the design are the drive sleds that don't need to be driven. It seems at first like they did not put the same amount of money into them as my last Qnap (they are all metal), but they have actually done a good job. In fact, they have become very solid now and prefer plastic over metal. There are only two things I have to complain about If RAM were cheap as it is these days, it should have had more than 4GB as it cost $900. There should have been a screen showing the status of the device, like my last one. I think at least 2 1GbE ports would be sufficient in the place of the 4 1GbE ports. Five gigabit Ethernet or five gigabit Ethernet. Even most motherboards come with either 2 or 4GB of memory. This is not a cheap or entry level product. I get that 10gbE would be expensive. Five gigabit Ethernet. I find the heatsinks included with the m2 drives to be In spite of that, this thing flies and is quite amazing. My next update will be in a few years to see if it has held up as well as one of my previous ones. My previous system has still been running, but I wanted to go with something with more bays and a recent.

Elliot Houston

| Feb 22, 2021