Been waiting for the price to drop again, just ordered for a poe hd surveillance cameras, it also works as virtualisation server supporting docker images
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DrLamok
17 May 161#1
Hmm.. this or ts-253a for £100 more...
2no WD REDS 4TB are waiting in the drawer...
tempting
dessala to DrLamok
17 May 16#7
TS253A regularly drops to £249 on Amazon and Ebuyer. Got mine about month ago. Shame no support for DVB-T though unlike my ancient TS119. Otherwise nice piece of kit. You can even enjoy karaoke if that's your thing :smile:
Awaken to DrLamok
18 May 16#14
Neither, see above :smile:
ontheqt to DrLamok
18 May 16#16
I have the 253a and it is super, better spec and black! Id be reluctant to buy this model for plex, spend a little extra on the 253a model. I had a wd green drive 2tb to stick in which works well. These devices work on storage pools so you will have less hard drive space to play with. I have 1.4 gb after expanding the storage pool in settings. I have 4gb ram and plex on 1080p transcodes a 18gb bluray to a roku fine. Not sure there point in buying more ram.
defard
17 May 16#2
Great bit of kit (I have the 253) just make sure that when you pick up HDs you do so with open eyes (3tb drives will give you around 2.2tb of useable space for example).
Also recommend you buy some cheap memory and install it yourself (the Qnap memory is a rip-off and you don't invalidate your warranty by doing it yourself)
zomg to defard
18 May 16#17
You should be seeing just over 2.7TB of useable space on a 3TB drive. Is there some additional overhead specific to QNAP?
dessala
17 May 16#3
If I remember correctly you can install 2x8GB RAM on this one. Even though officialy max memory supported is 8GB.
polly69
17 May 16#4
does this support apps i.e sickbeard, sabnzb?
DynaMight to polly69
17 May 16#6
Yeah it does and they run perfectly. Got it all running myself. Theres a big community on their forums with loads of apps, either officially made or user made.
DynaMight
17 May 16#5
I have this exact same NAS. Its a bargain at this price too.
IMO it does need extra ram. I purchased 2x 2GB and it runs sweet now, I think even an extra 1x 1GB will be perfect, but I did find it struggling with only 1GB (I guess that'll depend on what you intend to run on it, 1GB will be fine with basic NAS functions)
It can also double as a media centre with Kodi one click away as well as other features that can output via HDMI like native linux desktop (and also VM Ware for Windows etc)
I'm sure the 'buy a HP Micro server' lot will be around soon, but the QNAP has so many easy to use (and also powerful) functions. I was tempted by a HP myself, but the power consumption & the fact I already had a QNAP changed my mind.
Awaken to DynaMight
18 May 16#13
Here I am!
Microserver. Save £50, have more performance, have dual lan, have iLO, have upgradability, have double the HDD bays, have it easy with Freenas or XPEnology or have any other OS you want and use it for something else in 10 years when you find it in a cupboard and blow the dust off.
Really can't see the point.
DrLamok
17 May 16#8
Where did you get this from??
3TB drives give you approximately 3000000000000 bytes of free space
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2no WD REDS 4TB are waiting in the drawer...
tempting
Also recommend you buy some cheap memory and install it yourself (the Qnap memory is a rip-off and you don't invalidate your warranty by doing it yourself)
IMO it does need extra ram. I purchased 2x 2GB and it runs sweet now, I think even an extra 1x 1GB will be perfect, but I did find it struggling with only 1GB (I guess that'll depend on what you intend to run on it, 1GB will be fine with basic NAS functions)
It can also double as a media centre with Kodi one click away as well as other features that can output via HDMI like native linux desktop (and also VM Ware for Windows etc)
I'm sure the 'buy a HP Micro server' lot will be around soon, but the QNAP has so many easy to use (and also powerful) functions. I was tempted by a HP myself, but the power consumption & the fact I already had a QNAP changed my mind.
Microserver. Save £50, have more performance, have dual lan, have iLO, have upgradability, have double the HDD bays, have it easy with Freenas or XPEnology or have any other OS you want and use it for something else in 10 years when you find it in a cupboard and blow the dust off.
Really can't see the point.
3TB drives give you approximately 3000000000000 bytes of free space
3000000000000 bytes = 2929687500 kilobytes = 2861023 Megabytes = 2794 Gigabytes = 2.728 Terabytes
For example WD RED 3TB drive has 5860533168 available sectors, 512 bytes each = 3000592982016 byes on drive in total
plain and simple