QNAP TS-453 mini

welshdragon · 21 Jul 2015 at 13:27

If anyone is interested I've reviewed the QNAP TS-453 mini

If there's any feedback, or if anyone wants to know something by all means fire away.

HEADRAT · 21 Jul 2015 at 16:30

Skim read it, looks like a capable box.

So it had no problem Trancoding 1080p on the fly?

I'm tempted to sell my HP G7 N54L and buy one of these.

welshdragon · 21 Jul 2015 at 20:29

The 2 gig quad core celeron is very capable and the ram is easily upgraded. It streams my 1080p game of thrones rips to my ipad fine.

Best thing to do is give one a whirl. Dsr is your friend if it's not for you. I've just installed the new beta os for it which is really good.

HEADRAT · 22 Jul 2015 at 13:55

Just ordered TS-453mini-8G, time to sell some bits and pieces + Microserver

welshdragon · 23 Jul 2015 at 09:44

Let me have some feedback mate. The new beta os if you install it basically gives it a bit of a material design look and the new Hybrid deskstation app really overhauls the older hdstation with lots more tv apps if you connect with hdmi.

HEADRAT · 23 Jul 2015 at 12:25

Look what's turned up this morning

HEADRAT · 24 Jul 2015 at 19:12

I presume this isn't good, out of the box fan failure

welshdragon · 24 Jul 2015 at 20:01

That's strange. Have you till got the error?

nutcase · 25 Jul 2015 at 19:56

No mention of iscsi?

welshdragon · 26 Jul 2015 at 14:26

nutcase_1uk said:
No mention of iscsi?

Cheers mate. That was deliberate on my part to be fair. The only reason being I'm a touch limited to cover all the features etc so try and stick with the most popular for the home user .... ish

nutcase · 26 Jul 2015 at 16:14

I love iscsi at home

welshdragon · 28 Jul 2015 at 19:53

Fair point

DHR · 30 Jul 2015 at 08:08

You've not mentioned how much power it consumes, the fact that you're mentioning its a mini PC suggests it'll be much greedier on the power than a smaller more traditional NAS?

welshdragon · 30 Jul 2015 at 20:24

Very good point. I'll address that as soon as I've finished potching with windows 10 and have my web tools back up and running.

Mikey · 10 Jan 2016 at 18:33

How have you got on with the 453 mini as I'm mulling one myself for my growing data and essential mix collection