QNAP TS-230 2-Bay NAS Enclosure, Realtek RTD1296 ARM Cortex-A53 Quad-Core 1.4 GHz, 2GB RAM

QNAP TS-230

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Qnap TS-230 2-Bay NAS, Realtek RTD1296 ARM Cortex-A53 Quad-Core 1.4 GHz, 2GB RAM

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QNAP TS-230 

Top Rated Gear: QNAP TS-230 2-Bay NAS Enclosure, Realtek RTD1296 ARM Cortex-A53 Quad-Core 1.4 GHz, 2GB RAM Capacity: 0TB - Enclosure, Manufacturer: Qnap

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Lightweight, quiet, and versatile, the TS-230 is your ideal entry-level NAS. Coated in a shade of elegant baby blue, the NAS can easily fit into your living environment to stimulate an intelligent and fun lifestyle. You can centrally store and back up all your digital files to the TS-230 for easily accessing, syncing, and sharing those files, creates snapshots to protect important files, and build a one-stop home entertainment portal for streaming photos, music, and videos to multiple devices in your home and beyond. Besides laptop and mobile phone, the TS-230 is also the tech gadget that you should have one!An entry-level NAS with snapshot protection, allowing you to protect files and data from accidental deletion and malware attacks.Centrally store personal or family photos, music, and videos; easily browse, organize, and share multimedia files, and enjoy video streaming for better entertainment.H.264 hardware decoding and real-time transcoding brings smooth audiovisual experience.myQNAPcloud service allows you to easily access, manage, and share NAS files via the Internet.Use HBS to back up or sync NAS files to remote or cloud storage space for reliable data backup and restoration.Serves as your secure private cloud and supports user account protection, IP blocking, 2-step verification, encryption access, and more.Sleek and stylish design makes modern life simple and fun!Adorned with a refreshing baby blue color, the minimal and slim TS-230 fits anywhere in your home. Featuring a unique, toolless design, setting up the TS-230 is so easy that it doesn't even need a screwdriver! Let the TS-230 be your new companion for starting a smart and fun lifestyle.Effective cooling fan for heat flowThe TS-230 is small in size (188.6mm high, 90.2mm wide, and 156.2mm in depth) and requires only 12.3W, providing powerful features without a high power bill. The 8 cm HDB type Sintetico bearing fan is used as a cooling fan for maintaining high airflow while generating low level noise, providing better cooling for the TS-230 to ensure constant system operation.Compact feature-rich NAS for home and everyday useThe TS-230 features a Realtek RTD1296 quad-core 1.4 GHz processor and built-in 2 GB DDR4 RAM for meeting personal and home NAS applications. Equipped with a 1 Gigabit Ethernet network port and support for SATA 6Gbps disk drives, the TS-230 provides data transfer performance up to 113 Mbps. If you decide to encrypt files with AES-256 encryption, the performance is still an impressive 113 Mbps- securing data transfers without sacrificing performance. You can also install an SSD for SSD caching to boost IOPS-demanding applications performance.Tips for a more productive work dayThe TS-230 provides a smart NAS solution for professionally managing files by integrating rich apps for storing, synchronizing, searching, and archiving files. You can easily access files on various devices (including USB storage and mobile phones), instantly synchronize files with friends' or colleague's devices, quickly find specific files, and automatically organize your documents and media files. The TS-230 helps you save time while being more efficient and productive.Always remember to back up your dataThe TS-230 provides a flexible backup and disaster recovery solution, and supports snapshots that record the system status and data at any time. You can easily restore data back to any point of time with snapshots or backup files whenever needed.Windows and Mac backupUse the license-free QNAP NetBak Replicator utility to backup and restore files from Windows computers. Time Machine is fully supported for backing up Mac computers.Uses HBS for cloud backupHBS consolidates backup, restoration, and synchronization functions for easily transferring data in the TS-230 to another QNAP NAS or cloud storage space for double protection.Instant snapshotsSnapshots are essential for NAS data protection and restoration, providing dependable methods for protecting data in the face of growing ransomware threats. The TS-230 supports up to 32 snapshots per volume/LUN, and up to 64 snapshots per NAS.Comprehensive home entertainment with flexible multimedia streamingMake the TS-230 your home multimedia hub for streaming photos, music, and videos to computers, TVs, or mobile devices.Install Plex Media Server app to stream media files from the NAS to your mobile devices, DLNA compatible devices and HDTV by using common media streaming devices, including Roku, Apple TV (via Qmedia), Google Chromecast, and Amazon Fire TV.Qmedia allows music, photos and videos to be effortlessly streamed to Android TV, Apple TV (via Qmedia), Amazon Fire TV, and set-top boxes.Real-time 4K video transcodingThe TS-230 supports 4K (H.264) hardware decoding and real-time transcoding, allowing you to convert videos to universal file formats that can be smoothly played on multiple devices. Therefore, you can easily share movies or travel videos saved on your NAS with family and friends through shared links, so they can watch videos anytime and anywhere.Easy photo management with AI-powered QuMagie for automated photo categorizationQuMagie brings you a brand-new photo management experience. By integrating QuMagie Core AI deep-learning algorithm, QuMagie enables facial recognition, object identification, and geotagging of photos on your NAS. Similar photos are categorized in the AI Albums (including People, Things, and Places). Other useful features include a built-in timeline scroll, customizable folder covers, iOS Live Photos display, and a powerful search tool, providing you with the ultimate photo management and sharing solution.Connect to NAS easily and securely with myQNAPcloudWherever you are, myQNAPcloud allows you to be always connected to your TS-230 at home via the Internet by using an unique domain name. It becomes easy and convenient to access, manage, and share NAS data as you don't have to worry about complex routing environments. Also, myQNAPcloud strengthens keys on SSL Certificates to 2048-bits that ensures the security of remote access service.Protect your data with higher securityThe TS-230 is loaded with comprehensive security features to keep your data safe.Security CounselorA security portal for the TS-230 to check for weaknesses and offer recommendations for enhancing NAS security. It also integrates anti-virus and anti-malware scanning software.IP blockingOperates policy-based automatic IP blocking of suspicious IP addresses. You can also block specific IP addresses to strengthen system security and reduce risks of malicious attacks over the Internet.2-step verificationWhen activated, anyone who logs in to the TS-230 needs to enter a one-time verification code after their username and password.Notification CenterConsolidates system logs and notifications of all NAS apps, facilitating smooth and easy NAS management. You can receive notifications via emails, SMS, instant messages, and push notifications (through the Qmanager mobile app and web browsers).All these NAS functions on the goThe TS-230 has a multitude of companion mobile apps to extend its functionality to your smartphones and tablets. Whether you're on the go for business trips or traveling, your files and data are only a few taps away.Qfile allows you to access NAS files anytime anywhere, so you can ditch USB thumb drives forever, and download files to your mobile devices for offline reading.You can remotely monitor system status, shutdown or restart the NAS, pause or run downloads and backup tasks. Qmanager makes managing multiple NAS systems hassle-free.Whether sharing photos with family or collaborating with colleagues, Qsync Pro quickly and effortlessly syncs files across different platforms and multiple devices and makes file sync so easy.View, organize, and share photos stored on the NAS freely. You can also quickly find photos through customized tags, people, dates, and titles.Instantly search for files on the NAS. Search while you type, use search conditions to quickly find desired files, and preview, download, and share files after finding them.Connect to your NAS over VPN from your mobile device with QBelt, PPTP, OpenVPN, L2TP protocols. It's secure and easy.Host container applicationsIf you are enthusiastic about Docker, the Container Station on the TS-230 is your playground for containers! Container Station integrates LXC and Docker lightweight virtualization technologies. You can download apps from the built-in Docker Hub, including popular and fully-configured applications, and deploy them with just one click.From smart homes to multimedia applications, you can explore your creativity and bring containerized applications to life. Besides Container Station, more apps including tools for backup/sync, content management, communications, download, and entertainment, are available from the QTS App Center. Simply click and install on-demand to further extend NAS functionality.

Hardware setup was easy, but the software was not.  The start with firmware load was buggy and ran for 24 hours before I stopped it and started over.  The browser functions I have tried ONLY WORK WITH CHROME.  That to me is an unacceptable limitation.  Cloud access is unnecessarily complicated for an "entry level" NAS.  I should have spent more to get a better item.

Not easy to set up

According to reviews, appears to be solid entry level NAS. Multifunctional gui with lots of info. Recommend viewing online instructional videos to  understand functions if this is your 1st. Fast shipping from Adorama.

Qnap TS-230

I had hoped for simpler. But, QNAP support was present and fantastic, so I got through the process. I would have liked not to lose so much storage space to the device (I have about 1.6TB with 2TB drives in the RAID). Other than that, no issues.

Difficult to set up, but works well

If you are planning to do a RAID setup for photo back. This is a good option for beginners and very easy setup. There are many YouTube videos on the actual setup. The Photo search option/tagging the photos is a good option to find the persons in multiple photos. 

Also I had an issues with the first device that was sent to me, but Adorama Service Agents were very helpful to get my case resolved at the earliest, even during Holiday Seasons. Much Appreciate the patience of the service agents.

I needed basic backup storage and this gets me where I need to be. We filled ours with 24terrabytes worth of storage and backed up everything. Desktops, notebooks, cellphones, tablets, childrens handhelds...absolutely everything.

We dont worry about data lose anymore.

Basic backup with many extras!

Great value for the price. Nice Interface providing some info, wish it just locked the UI to your screen size. I can hear the platters spinning at various times throughout the day, not sure exactly why.. but aside from that its worked great.

Good Home NAS

I bought both this and the Synology DS220j. They are both weak haha. So let me back up a bit and explain what my intentions were with NAS. I wanted a Google Photos replacement. That meant I wanted a place to put all my pictures/videos and still be able to conveniently access it which in this case means accessing it on a regular basis from my phone (I get nostalgic about my daughter as a baby haha).

Now that you know my intentions here's what happened. I did research (thanks Nascompares on Youtube) and came to the conclusion that Synology got better software and QNAP got better hardware. In this case, exactly the same hardware but QNAP has 2GB vs Synology's 512MB. My intentions were simple so I figured the 512MB from Synology would be sufficient and I always prefer superior software over hardware. The Synology setup was EASY (way easier than QNAP) because it makes a lot of choices for you and the installation was a breeze. I was very impressed, very Apple like feel where you feel like your grandma could do it (though realistically probably not). Next up I installed Synology Moments, the whole reason why I wanted a NAS. It seemed to be better than QNAP's QuMagie (and it probably is) at least according to my research (another thumbs up for nascompares). The problem however was that when transferring my 800GB worth of pictures and videos, the transferring speed crawled!!! I think I left it on for 3 days and it had only done 200GB or something. I thought this was weird and noticed that it was also indexing all the pictures/videos which used up a LOT of the resources. I paused the indexing and it helped briefly but then it stopped. I could never get above 12MB/s transfer speeds on it. In essence, it was unusable. I even tried transferring to an external hard drive and plug it in directly to the Synology DS220j and speed did not improve so definitively something software wise was causing issues.

Luckily I had bought this one as a backup (they were both on sale). In truth I had debated between the two for a while but decided on Synology's reputation of ease of use as I'm getting older but when Synology failed me I was very happy I had a QNAP available to try. First, the QNAP setup was quite confusing and not so straight forward. I'm above-average when it comes to technical knowledge but the guide stumbled me multiple times e.g. the one I remember the most was picking between Static, Thick or Thin volume. I honestly still don't quite understand what the heck Thick/Thin volume is (sounds like it creates virtual volumes that are easier to delete/create), but what I do know is that Static is the more traditional way of doing things and I was not planning on messing with my partitions all that much. Anyway, after much head scratching it was finally up and running, and immediately I started moving things over and the speed was A LOT faster. I think I got 50MB/s, which I think is about the limit of my computer's wifi chip. In about half a day or a day, everything was transferred BUT the indexing did take another 2-3 days. So yeah, very weak NAS. I am however greedy enough to be patient with that and so I let it do its thing. It did crash on me once during that period, but upon reboot it seemed to recover itself well, the indexing continued from where it left off instead of starting from the beginning *phew*. Finally I started up QuMagie and loved how it sorts and groups my pictures/videos. I do think the facial recognition could be better, it thinks I am 10-20 different people apparently (I still haven't finished correcting all the duplicates). Overall it does feel like it runs with less issues than the Synology, the Synology slowed down a lot e.g. accessing resource monitor would sometimes take minutes possibly due to the low amount of RAM. QNAP does feel a bit more buggy, when it crashes, you don't quite know exactly why. The QNAP is far prettier (at least imo) and noticeably smaller too. For the price, I am very happy as a Google Photos replacement. Putting all my stuff there would cost me $99 a year (2TB plan). I got a 3TB setup running for less than $200 (I already had one 3TB HDD) so in 2 years I already made my money back and I plan to keep this for a lot longer than that.

To recap, I am very happy. The installation process was do-able though not head-scratching free. I love that I can setup a RAID 1 to get a backup of my backup. HDD can and probably will fail on you, so it's a great piece of mind knowing that the data will be reliably present when you need them. I love that it has a bunch of built-in apps as well as the equivalent apps for phones/tablets. In essence, I got the Google Photos replacement I wanted for a very affordable price.

Beautiful and compact with software that works (albeit can get technical)

Works as intended, no issues and set up was fairly simple. I threw two on-hand 2.5" ssds and within 30 minutes had them backing up my files.

QNAP NAS

Attractive and great functions.  I installed two Ironwolf 2TB drives and an external 240MB SSD.  Nice to have everything in one place and backed up.  Got tired of replicating files from one computer to another, so now everyone has everything available instantly.

QNAP TS-230 NAS

It works.  It’s reliable.  One star off because QNAP doesn’t seem to understand that people buying this entry level device need a lot more hand holding and explanations of all this does and how to make it do those things.  They assume you know what all their terminology means.  It makes the setup and use unnecessarily difficult.

Good device.  Needs better instructions.

Fast and quiet

This is entry level product, very straight forward to setup, nice to have it.

Great product

This is a great little unit. Keeps my files backed up and can even stream with Plex.

Great basic NAS

Great value for the money. Works as expected. No frills, just does what it is supposed to do and does it well. Very sufficient for home use.

I had a more expensive model before from 2015, but I never actually used those additional bells and whistles (e.g. double Ethernet ports, eSata port).

This model has exactly what I use - nothing more, (mostly) nothing less. The QTS interface is fairly easy to use as well, lots of utility apps (e.g. local and cloud backups, virus monitoring, media management, power schedule management). The only thing I wish it had that my previous model did is a USB connection to a UPS, so that it can shut down gracefully during a power outage. That said, it is still connected to the UPS - just that it wouldn't know to shut down. Then again, that doesn't happen very often in any case.

Great value for home use

Great price for an entry-level NAS. Great that it has USB 3.x ports on it for connecting a TR-004 expansion unit.

Low cost NAS to replace your older ones.

Very good quality, easy to set up, a bit beyond my current knowledge of NAS usage but its a fun journey. Great beginner NAS. One quirk i have is that QNAP doesn’t let you edit the files of applications you download, so if you’re moving a plex library to run off of the NAS, you will have to use WinSCP or SSH to tunnel into the directory of plex and move your files over manually as the file explorer in the QNAP dashboard doesn’t allow you native access to these files.

Good so far

Excellent quality NAS. This unit is superior to the Synology 2 bay which has less ram and costs more. The software is great and it is very quiet. For the money I have no complaints for a simple 2 bay unit. Very easy to get up and running and manage. Would easily buy again.

Great 2 bay NAS

I had a pair of 6TB HDDs laying around, and this NAS was perfect for them.  I'm a very basic user but everything seems to work just fine. Software isn't overly complicated.

This should be a nice low(er) power alternative to a dedicated NAS PC.

Works as expected!

Overall great price per performance ratio.