QNAP TS-563 NAS Review

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QNAP doubles down with AMD's new G-series SoC and releases a more affordable storage appliance for small business users.

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[tridon]

Bought a QNAP just over a month ago. Didn't find one sporting hardware from AMD, and I didn't think it would come anytime soon. Good to see that it actually performs well and isn't just the good old "cheap and slow AMD stuff". Will still be a while before I buy a new NAS though, sorry AMD. I do try to support you from time to time.

 

[gggplaya]

With such a powerful SOC, can it do Movie transcoding to DLNA?? So i can easily watch things on my TV via wifi?

 

[toadhammer]

Maybe I missed it, but I don't see test setup info on how you are fairly comparing 4-bay and 5-bay devices? For instance, QNAPs own 453 vs 563.

 

[ozicom]

If just a memory is different between $542 to $709 seems so much difference. There should be some other features missing on the cheap one.

 

[CRamseyer]

Four, five and six bay NAS are all tested in RAID 5 and with a single gigabit connection back to the network. Those systems are all grouped together and it's easy to spot overlap in the pricing as well.

The only difference is the memory.

 

[ozicom]

I think 8GB model comes with more camera license or different RAID configurations or something else. Because 2x4GB SO-DIMM memory doesn't make that much difference.

 

[zodiacfml]

I thought we would see power consumption comparisons, or did I just missed it?

 

[getochkn]

If these things always use cheap SOC's and opensource software, why are they are always so much more expensive than a PC I could build that would many times faster for less. I would love a NAS, but until they are more reasonable priced, I will stick with cheaper PC's that can do more and are faster. $700 will buy you a monster CPU, way more RAM than 8GB, etc. Ya, no hot swap case, but whatever. How often do you have to swap out dead drives.

 

[CRamseyer]

So what you are asking for is a free operating system, software plugins, optimizations, fast / redundant file systems and so on for little to no cost?

They are not just about the hardware and support.

 

[Niva]

He has a point though. The price is high, and for people who like to tinker with old machines/cases they can build a NAS/server for their own office on the cheap that could be significantly more powerful from leftover components. These things are all running some variant of linux anyways, so don't even get us started on that.

 

[gnalley]

Don't try to use this device as a standalone windows domain controller. The SAMBA and DHCP implementations are missing two CRITICAL components for it to work.

Samba is missing the ability to do DNS Forwarders...and DHCP does not allow you to input the OPTIONS command. Both of these functions are critical to having a working solution. If you want a standalone MS Domain Controller that works. Look elsewhere.

 

[tom.schroeder]

Hey Chris, It is worth pointing out that the primary con that you listed, lack of mSATA SSD port for cache, has been addressed (as of October 2017). The recently released QM2 PCI Cards allow adding up to two of either NVMe or SATA M.2 SSD as well as an optional 10 GBe port. It's hard to find information about this but it seems to be a fully supported feature of their Qtier caching tech.