
As a long time and happy user of the Raidon External Raid storage units I decided to try the QNAP units when I needed more storage capacity. The QNAP DAS units are solidly built and are professionally finished. They look like high quality equipment. Installation of the hard disk drives requires minimal effort. I configured the unit for Raid 1 using the switches on the rear panel. Set up took a while for my pair of Seagate Ironwolf Raid Hard Disk Drives as was to be expected. So far the unit has been running flawlessly for a week. Being a Direct Attached Storage device, consolidation of my files spread across many HDDs, Thumb-drives and smaller external raid units will be easy. Looking forward to consolidating all my files, on one storage device, and ending the "Digital Clutter". Once the consolidation is completed the QNAP will be connected to a NAS so my files can be accessed from any devise regardless of where I'm at.

Extremely well made and designed equipment shelf Has ventilation cut-outs for air circulation Very strong, is not flimsy at all Comes with everything you need to mount the unit Your equipment will not slide off this shelf or come crashing down


8 Ports, LCD Read out is fairly accurate, Rack Mountable, Good runtime at indicated 60% load.



- CPU comes preinstalled - Plenty of PCI slots - Stable under load - Remote management interface

Does what it says, and cost is in line with the value.

NO RAID Real HBA PCI Gen 3 Works awesome with Windows Storage Spaces

- Quiet - Nice design - Small footprint - APC Reputation - LCD display shuts off after a few seconds

Small and easily concealed. APC is a trusted brand in UPS makers.

Ipmi feature allowed effortless bios update even without a cpu or ram. Also enabled full setup without a screen, all it need was Lan and power. Plenty of pcie lanes for small businesses or home lab

Pure sine wave, size, LCD readout, included software.

* Can accommodate 128 GB of RAM. * PCIe 4.0. * 2× Oculink ports. * Feature-rich IPMI Web interface. * 2× 10 Gb ethernet. * Passively cooled X570 chipset.


It's a great CPU, being AM5 allows for many cooling options, and a TDP of 65W means you can get away with a small cooler.

Sturdy, well made, quiet, all the pieces were there.

mounted to the wall easily. everything works as expected


- Great for the price - USB 2 and 3 front headers - 5.25" device slot, very useful to add hot swappable drives