QNAP TS-364-8G-US 3 Bay High-Performance Desktop NAS with 2.5GbE and M.2 SSD caching for Running Virtual Machines and Qtier 3 Bay Diskless

If you want the benefits of have a home computer network, this device is a must. QNAP makes it fairly easy to setup and use. QNAP also has an excellent technical support system if you run into any problems. This last purchase was a replacement of my first QNAP which I purchased back in 2016. Cannot live without it now.

Purchase Date: May 2024 Purchase Price: $618.16 Easy to work with. Has numerous app. Used this mainly for storing videos. Really quite and compact

I’ve been using a TS-451+ for the last 8 years and I was beginning to wonder how much life remained in it. So, to be safe, I purchased this TS-264. I only ever accumulated about 1TB of data on the older device, so I opted for a more modest solution this time. The setup instructions for the TS-264 did not work. Supposedly, one just needs to plug in the device, login with “admin”, “MAC1Address” and start following prompts, but the default, initial login did not work. Having had some experience with QNAP servers, I decided simply to pull the drives and reinitialize it. Everything worked fine after that. At this moment, I am moving files from the old NAS to the new one. Plex is working on it! So, I’m in business with a new AV and file server to complement the old one. This new server is MUCH quieter than the old one! Color me “brand loyal”. My experience with QNAP has been good. The very few times I consulted with customer service in the user forum, regarding the older NAS, generated rapid, helpful responses.

I have been researching for weeks to make certain this one in fact has two memory slots in the machine. To my surprise, they used one piece of 8G memory in one of the slots. I confirmed with QNAP that only older model had memory soldered on.

Easy setup. Even the timid of people can set this up. It guides you through setup. It has a great setup on every app and section. Explains what you need to do and why. Great expandable scalable unit. Very fast. And can use as desktop as well if wanted. Will be buying more upgrades for it.