Perfect for a small Rack
Perfect in my VDI rack. I was looking for an affordable 1U NAS and the others are really limited in hardware.
Use NAS for home and backup for several people in my family who are self employed.
So far with 5 users (Windows and Android), no worries.
The basic configuration with 2G of RAM is really too little, for a VM it is 4Gb minimum.
QNAP is selling a function that is incompatible with the basic hardware...
The NAS accepts more than 8GB of RAM without any problem (contrary to what is indicated everywhere).
My final configuration is: 3x 8TB HDD in Raid5 + 1x 500GB SSD for the OS + 2x8GB RAM
The noise level is quite high (info bay in the living room), so I'm switching to Noctua.
(It is possible to regulate the speed, but the CPU quickly gets hot when it is used).
The configuration of the QNAP software is not very ergonomic but useful forums.
I'm not sure how much I'm going to pay for it, but I'm not sure I'll be able to pay for it in the future.
I'm very happy with it for the price and the rack configuration.
The only drawback is the CPU which is a little bit too small, but it's impossible to find something better in this budget.