QNAP TBS-464-8G-US 4 Bay M.2 NVMe SSD NASbook Intel Celeron N5105/N5095 4-core CPU, 8GB DDR4 Memory, and 2.5GbE (1G/100M/10M) Network Connectivity (Diskless)

Qnap had a great eco system. This little box is absolutely silent. I’m running 4x4tb drives in a raid 5 and get a little over 10tb. It’s kinda a niche product. You can get more space for less with spinning rust. I personally use it on the network I built in my semi truck and for that spinning drives seemed like a bad idea. It’s been a powerful little Plex box and an absolutely fantastic file storage box. It’s definitely well built and I wouldn’t hesitate to buy another one if I had a use for it. Setup is super easy. It has a ton of apps and docker so you can run almost anything on it. You will wanna some additional repos to get the most out of it. If you can get a dual 5gbe connection going to it you can read and write fast enough to saturate the bandwidth.

There is alot to like here but the lack of memory expansion without sacrificing one slot to use as an SSD Cache. Means this thing is extremely hampered by tech limitations when performing more than a few tasks at a time. Using it as a media server and NVR pretty much tops the system out especially if you load new content on and it starts generating thumbnails.It surprises me that for the NVME version of this NAS they went to a plastic case. Drives with naturally higher operating temp you remove the metal chassis that acts like a giant heat sink??? They had to spend money on plastic tooling to build a less efficient chassis as far as thermal management goes... just an odd choice that adds significant development cost that has to be recouped over the life cycle of the product. They could have kept it metal and sold it a lower price point; enticing more consumers or price the same and pad their margins... Either way you look at it a bad organizational choice one of many that keeps this NAS from being perfect. That being said if you accept its limitations it does a pretty darn good job.

Incredibly fast. Maxes out at 5gbps due to nic speed but it’s silent, fast and rock stable. Highly recommend this model. I run raid 5 on 3x 2tb samsung nvme ssd and a 256gb Nvme cacheRunning a 8esxi VMware farm off of it flawlessly

I thought this would be perfect for my new Home Entertainment NAS given the NVME Disks which are 100 times faster than old 3.5 inch, and even 2.5 SSD. It doesn't translate into performance though, it is as slow as if not even slower than 3.5 7,200 rpm hard drives. 16 Hours to do a 387 GB Backup, hours to copy and paste. Don't waste your money, build your own like I am going to do. In addition, now half the apps won't work.

Easy set up, quiet, does what it is supposed to do

Easy to setup. Ideal for small business or home setup

It's unfortunate that the previous reviewer had pretty problems making it work with 4 nvmes. However my experience is different with these setup:1 2TB iron wolf nvme ssd3 2TB Samsung pro nvme ssdAll are configured as single disks (no RAID nor JBOD) with thick and some thin volumes. No RAID because won't need it for performance and don't really need redundancy since I have snapshots enabled, backing up those snapshots and I have daily backups to an USB 3.2 hard disk enclosure with QuDedup. On top of that I have an on demand one touch sync backup on another USB 3.2 RAID 1 storage (bigger capacity since also using this to archive some things)I did have an issue with my first external storage though. HB3 is not happy with me assigning a volume name different from the Disk ID seen by the NAS. So has to rename that volume. Other than that, things are working great.Longevity is another thing that I will have to look at thought. So if something goes wrong l, will update. Otherwise, assume everything is running smoothlyTip for those new at this, do make sure you add qnapclub as an app repo. Lots of useful stuff there

What do I like about this device? It's advertised as a NAS. It uses SSD NVMe storage. So, it's definitely quiet, and the storage can be redundant, fast, and as much as you can afford to stuff in it.What do I NOT like? It's advertised as a NAS, but it's not designed as a NAS. Sure, it will get the job done, but it takes A LOT of effort, research, and experimenting to get there. As a NAS, there's TWO things this device needs to do EASILY: 1) Create users, and 2) start backing up their data.There is no easy way to understand how to set up the storage or storage options. What are the home folders for? What do Sharing Folders do differently? How do you create regular users versus power/admin users? Why is QNAP Sync so difficult to configure? Why can't Sync allow an administrator to setup syncing and new folders for new users in three clicks or less? How many apps and configurations do I need to just back my f*@#$*! data up???QNAP has not put much thought into making this an easy appliance to own. And, considering the cost of both the device and the subsequent SSDs you have to buy, it's very disappointing.Also, the instructions for setup are quite confusing. Single-sided SSDs need heat pads on both sides, and an extra on the bottom? The drawings do not clearly show this, and doesn't explain about SSDs which have labels on them (like Samsung). Do you remove them first? Apply the pad over it? Then there's the issue of heat. These things pump out heat, and the internal fan isn't quite enough to keep things cool. Perhaps that's a noise issue, but they should've placed vents on the top or bottom of the unit to allow external cooling options (like attaching a quiet 100mm fan or blower).I haven't even dug deep into the multimedia or other features, but every application is a complicated setup, it seems, and I doubt you'll even use it for this considering the non-friendly setup and the cost of the storage.QNAP: If you're going to advertise this as a NAS, it should out-of-the-box be ready to do so, easily and quickly. There should be a wizard with proper language grammar that walk the user through initial setup of storage, users, and syncing. We shouldn't all need to be a seasoned Linux users to get our money's worth.