QNAP TS-231K-US 2-Bay Home and Personal Cloud NAS, Annapurna Labs AL-214 Quad-core 1.7 GHz Processor, 1GB RAM

Just bought the TS-431K as a backup to my TS-431P that I bought many years ago. Not much has changed between the two models but I am changing my old TS-431P from Raid 6 over to Raid 5 and I needed another NAS to copy the files, reformat the old NAS then copy all the files back over. Two NAS, one for backup and the other as the Main. One of the main thing about buying a REAL QNAP NAS is the ability to run Apps within the tiny processor on the NAS. Things like DLNA, Media Apps, Web page server and even Security camera recorder. Although for myself I only use the NAS as a file storage and it gives me a peace of mind that I can create a RAID to join up four hard disk drives into one massive NAS drive. I am using four 10TB drives to create a Raid 5 with 30TB usable space. Raid 5 gives me protection from one disk failure out of four drives. Thus I can backup my NAS if a failure is indicated before swapping out the one bad drive with a brand new hard drive for rebuilding. Although you could use a single disk drive as a backup or the main and making a copy over to another hard disk drive, but the problem is that if the one hard disk drive fails you have no recourse in copying the data off the drive. Where-as a NAS with Raid 5 will give you the chance to copy the data into another disk drive if there is a one disk failure among the four disk drives. With Raid 6 you can get up to two disk drive failures before you lose the data. However with Raid 6 you only get half the usable space. For example you have 40TB by using four 10TB hard drive and with Raid 6 you will only have 20TB usable. Where-as with 40TB Raid 5 you will have 30TB usable, which is why I am converting my old TS-431P from Raid 6 to Raid 5. Last thing, the baby blue stripe isn't as baby blue in the photos. Although I can see a plastic covering over the baby blue which probably is obscuring the brightness of the baby blue. I think I will leave the plastic layer on. Anyway I highly recommend this QNAP NAS.

In all fareness, you get what you pay for. Its a good entry level unit if you have very basic storage needs. Its advetisedhaving lots of possibilities, wich it has. You just have to choose wich one you want to run because you don't have much resources left over to run said functions, once the unit finally boots. Don't be like me and expect good performance buying entry level hardware.

So for straight up file serving and backups, its great. Anything more, its a bit weak so having a stronger processor and RAM is better but I have no regrets as for me its a backup.

Super easy step by step setup, and hotswappable drives. Takes no time to set up and robust software. Every QNAP I have used (about 8 of them) is fantastic and this one was one of the best value for features to price. You can't go wrong with this NAS for home or small business.

Hasta el momento llevo poco tiempo de uso y no me ha dado ningún tipo de problema, además de que cada día voy investigando y viendo toda la funcionalidad que me puede dar, creo que me tengo que ir acostumbrando poco a poco a todo esto. Creo que es el futuro.