Abstract: 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...
Abstract: 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...
Abstract: 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...
Abstract: 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...
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...
Abstract: 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...
Abstract: 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...
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...
