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CDRLabs has taken an in depth look at QNAP's new vertical NAS, the TS-453mini. Designed for smaller offices and home environments, the TS-453mini features a tool-less, vertical design that takes up less desktop space than most other 4-bay NAS devices. In addition to its stylish, good looks, the NAS is powered by a quad-core Intel Celeron 2.0GHz processor and comes equipped with either 2GB or 8GB of DDR3L RAM and a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports to deliver up to 220 MB/s read and write speeds. The TS-453mini is also packed full of cutting-edge features including HD video transcoding, SSD caching. private cloud capabilities and the ability to run multiple virtual machines with the Virtualization Station. In addition, users can plug a keyboard, mouse and HDMI display into the device and use it like a PC to access stored data, surf the web, watch videos and monitor live feeds on Surveillance Station.


QNAP TS-453mini 4-Bay Vertical NAS

I updated it to QTS 4.2 this morning. Loving the new look.

Storage Manager has been revamped. I wanted to try the new Snapshot feature but apparently you need to create a new storage pool.

I'm starting to not like the snapshots feature. First you have to rebuild the storage pool and now you need at least 4GB of RAM.

Woot. New apps in HD Station. You now have Plex, Skype, Facebook and LibreOffice.