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With the raw mechanics of RAID out of the way, we're now ready to get some fun out of this QNAP TS-451 NAS. You'll have realised by now that it's a lot more than a chunk of 11TB of storage on my LAN. The daemons we talked about in part 1 can be set to wor...
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Last time I talked about QNAP updates and promised to say more about the 6 GB Red drives that Western Digital has supplied to help me through this NAS Server review. The NAS updates have galloped forwards since then, and we're now on a major update versio...
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In the first part of this series I said something about the general use of network attached storage (NAS) devices and whinged a good deal about the problems of explaining the capabilities of one with as many tricks up its sleeve as the QNAP TS-451. But en...
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I'VE SPENT THE PAST thirty-plus years trying to make sense of IT in a way that folks without specialist knowledge can understand. When the PC arrived at the beginning of the '80s it was already the most complex device ever put before the public, and in th...
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Storage, storage, storage… can we ever have too much of it? With all our devices (often with quite limited internal drives) consuming and creating content on a daily basis many users need something to manage their storage needs and thats what QNAP offer i...
Solid build quality, nice design, feature packed and good potential for expanding. This future proof NAS with intuitive OS wins our gold award...
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The capabilities of the TS-451 likely go well beyond your requirements. This fully-featured and then-some NAS is able to effortlessly handle multiple network connections, and you can always grow into its extra features (like all NAS products these days, i...
This fully-featured and then-some QNAP NAS is able to effortlessly handle multiple network connections.OverallSpecs$829 AUD(pricing info)...
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The capabilities of the TS-451 likely go well beyond your requirements. This fully-featured and then-some NAS is able to effortlessly handle multiple network connections, and you can always grow into its extra features (like all NAS products these days, i...
Versatile and very powerful storage...
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We have looked at many Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices over the years and the last two years this category has shown consistent improvements in software and increase in performance.The latest QNAP TS-451 is no different. Sporting a dual-core Intel...
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A few years ago, I acquired my first NAS appliance. The unit was initially to be used as a pure storage solution, but that quickly changed as the NAS market began to change. What began with lackluster Marvell SoCs that could barely reach 70 MB/s transferr...
This latest addition to the QNAP family is quite a surprising NAS solution. With the TS-451's intended audience being the SOHO / home user marketplace, I am simply taken back by the shear amount of power this little white box has. During testing, I had t...
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Qnap's four-bay TS-451 NAS was launched to much acclaim back in July 2014, and with good reason: the SOHO server was one of the first to feature an Intel 'Bay Trail' processor and could rightly claim to offer cutting-edge technology in a user-friendly pac...
Strong all-round performance, Polished QTS operating system, New and improved price point, Exhaustive feature set, Low power consumption...
Plastic construction feels cheap...
Qnap's TS-451 has always been an impressive NAS, but now with a new-and-improved price, it's a NAS that SOHO users should seriously consider.Available for £350, or £400 for a 4GB model, the four-bay unit features an up-to-date Intel Celeron J1800 proc...
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Almost an entire year has passed since part 4 of this review, which I concluded with “to be continued”. You deserve an explanation.The Yamaha RX-679 and the QNAP TS-451 were two bits of kit that turned out to be much more fascinating than I'd anticipated...
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Since part 1, this TS-451 epic has been classified as Storage and Multimedia. But our discussion of the multimedia side of things has so far been restricted to feeding music, pictures and movies down the LAN into a variety of multimedia clients. Essentia...
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Introducing the recently announced QNAP TS-451 high performance home or small office NAS. The TS-451 supports up to 4 SATA 6Gb/s HDDs (2.5″ or 3.5″). TRIM support is also included so you can also use your favourite SSDs. Using the current compatibility li...
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QNAP has been around since which may not sound an extremely long time at all, but in their time spent inside the networking sector they've made inroads into a rather competitive arena Their current portfolio includes a large selection of network-related...
Our NAS user experience has been limited to just one brand since we began looking this sector but today our eyes have been opened to the other options which are available by way of QNAP's solutions and its evident we're mightily impressed.Time and again w...
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Tasty: Great UI; packed with features; accessible from anywhere. (-) Not so tasty: A little expensive, weird app design.Over the last several weeks, we've taken a good look at a couple of network attached storage (NAS) solutions including the beastly...
Tasty: Great UI, packed with features, accessible from anywhere...
Not so tasty: A little expensive, weird app design...
Building your own aside, the QNAP TS-451 is a great starter NAS for homes with multiple devices...
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maximumpc.com Updated:
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Its squarish form factor measures 6.97(H) x 7.09(W) x 9.25(D) inches, and includes an Intel Celeron dual-core processor (2.41GHz, 2.58GHz Burst), 1GB of DDR3L RAM (expandable up to 8GB), 512MB of internal storage, four drive bays, two gigabit Ethernet por...
packed with features, accessible from anywhere.
A little expensive, weird app design...
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Packing a powerful Intel Celeron processor, the QNAP TS-451 NAS is billed as the world's first consumer NAS to support virtualization. Add hardware accelerated media transcoding plus a swathe of features and you'll see how the humble NAS server has grown...
Having observed and written about the home server and network attached storage category for almost eight years now, I've seen a number of shifts in my time. The arrival of the QNAP TS-451 – and others in its class – represents one of these progressions. F...
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Network storage used to be a thing only found in business class networks. However, with the increase in popularity of home networking and the ability to easily share large amounts of data between PCs attached to the home network, network attach storage is...
The performance results speak for themselves. The QNAP TS-451 clearly leads the benchmark results and sometimes up to 50% faster than the Thecus N5550. However, don’t discount the fact that we are testing two different processors and there are bound to be...
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1. Introduction 2. Exterior Features 3. Internal Features 4. System Setup 5. Administration 6. Administration (Continued) 7. Administration (Continued) 8. QNAP App Center 9. Benchmarking: Transcoding 10. Benchmarking: Avatar Benchmark 11. Benchmarking: MP...
With the TS-451, I got more than I expected. This NAS is more than affordable for a quality 4-bay NAS ($499.99 USD) and provides all the features you need and want. The TS-451 isn't the cheapest 4-bay NAS on the market, but when you combine its capabili...
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With four 3.5″ drive bays available, there is a potential for 16TB of storage, using readily available NAS-specific drives, plus the ability to link up an expansion chassis through the USB 3.0 ports. If both capacity and redundancy are needed, RAID 5 is u...
553 / 513 MBps best read/write performance with ATTO...
truction: 9.50...
Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. As Albert Einstein said, “ Not everything that can...
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Over the last few years I've reviewed a number of SOHO/SMB Network Attached Storage (NAS) products and, on the whole, I've really liked almost everything I've seen.What's really cool is that the leading manufacturers in this market have polished and re-po...
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We would like to thank QNAP for supplying the review sample. The new TS-x51 line isn't only for SOHO (Small Office Home Office) environments as it is also for enthusiast users in need of a high-performance NAS. The crucial feature of these NAS servers is...
Equal in performance to the TS-470, but at a significantly lower price, High performance (fast transfer speeds), Strong CPU - Intel Celeron J1800 (for a NAS), Low power consumption, Silent operation under normal circumstances, RAM is upgradable to, at mos...
Low-quality trays, Memory upgrade procedure isn't easy (if you want to use the second empty slot), The optional 4 GB memory expansion module is too expensive, Boot and restart time remain long, Warranty should be longer, The trays are not numbered, We cou...
The QNAP TS-451 retails for $499.99, and the TS-451-4G (with 4 GB of RAM) retails for $556.99 Equal in performance to the TS-470, but at a significantly lower price High performance (fast transfer speeds) Strong CPU - Intel Celeron J1800 (for a NAS) Low p...
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Where i live the public sector is technologically outdated to say the least (many computers still run on Windows 98, how about that?) so you can imagine how surprised i was when i visited the local town hall and saw a NAS server standing tall right next t...
Build Quality, Intel Celeron J1800 Dual Core CPU, Excellent Performance, Features, 4GB DDR3 RAM (Expandable To 8GB), 2 Gigabit Ethernet Ports, 4 USB Ports (2xUSB 3.0 / 2xUSB 2.0), HDMI v1.4a Output, RAID 0/1/5/6/10, SATA III (6Gb/s), QTS 4.x.x OS, Price (...
HDD Temperatures...
Although we've yet to finalize the details of our upcoming 10GbE testing equipment (we're trying to find the most compatible factory-ready solution for NAS devices) based on our "regular" 1GbE tests the TurboNAS TS-451 seems to be almost on par with the m...
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The QNAP TS-451 NAS is a high performance NAS for small offices and personal use. It comes with a 2.41GHz dual core Intel Celeron processor, 1GB of DDR3L RAM (expandable up to 8GB), up to 20TB of capacity (5TB HDD x 4), and all kinds of connectivity inclu...
First consumer-grade NAS with virtualization technology, Includes HDMI out, Large-block sequential speeds higher than advertised...
Drive bays are not tool-less...
The QNAP TS-451 NAS is a 4-bay tower form factor NAS that is powered by a 2.41GHz dual core Intel Celeron processor, comes with 1GB of DDR3L RAM, and up to 20TB of capacity. The TS-451 allows cross-platform file sharing, remote access, and has a HDMI outl...
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There's a wide range of NAS options available now. There's Atom-based devices like the four bay Synology DS414 ; there's PowerPC based devices like the two bay Thecus N2310 ; and there's Intel-based devices like the five bay Thecus N5550 . While the numb...
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The launch of the QNAP TS-x51 series was covered in detail last month. Its introduction has revitalized the premium NAS market for SOHO and power users by providing a powerful enough alternative to the Atom D270x-based NAS units. The 22nm Celeron J1800 in...
Similar to the Seagate NAS 4-bay we saw last week, the rebuild process takes much less time compared to the RAID expansion process. The time taken for the various RAID modifications are amongst the lowest of all the four-bay NAS units that we have evaluat...
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hardwareunboxed.com Updated:
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So what makes the TS-x51 family different from other QNAP products? They are the first to be powered by an Intel Celeron J1800 dual-core processor. This means they boast video transcoding capability that's 18x faster than earlier Atom based solutions. Mor...
The QNAP TS-451 is perhaps the most interesting, innovative and exciting NAS we have tested to date.At its heart is the Intel Celeron J1800 dual-core processor, a desktop budget solution that we found more than capable 3 months ago. This processor was cap...
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