QNAP TS-264-8G | 2-Bay, Intel Quad-core CPU, 2 x M.2 Slots, 2.5GbE Desktop NAS, 2-Bay 8GB RAM

TLDR: Bought to store c.700GB music collection, replacing a 10+ year old NAS. Using two YouTube "how-to" guides, the QNAP was easy to set up, even for a NAS novice. It has been a revelation, both in terms of instant music access, handling large 500-900 song playlists, and being utterly unphased by large hi-res music files. The 24-bit upscaling of MP3s available via the latest version of Asset-uPnP (additional purchase) gives a noticeable sonic improvement. Recommended if you want to upgrade your music NAS. I bought this NAS to store all my music, replacing a 10+ year old Zoneripper NAS, which has been struggling with large, hi-res music files and big play-lists due to its limited RAM. I have c.700GB of music which I stream through a Linn Klimax DS over a domestic ethernet network. I fitted the QNAP with 2 x WD WD40EFZX Red Plus 4TB HDD set up as a RAID 1, and 2 x WD Red SN700 500GB NVMe SSD set up as a RAID 0 read-only Cache accelerator. My old NAS was set up by the shop I bought it from, so I'm a NAS novice, and I followed two YouTube videos to help with set up: MrTimTech: QNAP NAS - Easy Set-Up Guide Heads of Tech: QNAP NAS m.2 NVMe Install Guide | SSD Cache for MAX PERFORMANCE Using these videos got me through with no hiccups. Set-Up took about an hour, but then I waited 7 hours for the RAID 1 array to format. I had my music on a Western Digital Passport external drive, which I connected to the QNAP via the front USB-A slot and it took about four hours to copy across. The QNAP found the external drive almost instantly - I have read some people have had problems with this, but it worked straight away for me. Overall, installation and set-up took time and needed care from a novice like me, but I wouldn't chose a Synergy NAS over this because they are more "user friendly" - the QNAP is easy enough so long as you have some idea what you're doing. Finally, I bought a new copy of Asset-uPnP from Illustrate to manage my music library; there is a QNAP specific version on the Illustrate website and again, there are easy to follow instructions to set it up on the QNAP. In terms of performance, the QNAP has more-than-met my hopes. The Klimax DS found the Asset-uPnP library on my network instantly, and everything is super-fast and instant in terms of navigating the library and assembling play queues. Pages that took seconds to load are now instant, and whereas my old NAS would sometimes fail to load one big playlist I have (994 songs), the QNAP does it in about 3 seconds. Finally, while most of my music is stored as FLAC, the latest version of Asset-uPnP has the ability to upscale MP3s from 16-bit to 24-bit, resulting in a noticeable improvement in sound: MP3s are now almost indistinguishable from FLAC. The QNAP handles the upscaling easily. Overall, I'm very happy with this QNAP set-up, and frankly wish I'd made this change earlier. That said, while I think the NAS is good value for money (particularly compared to equivalent Synergy NAS), this whole set up cost nearly £800, including the NAS, the HDD and SSD drives and the Asset-uPnP software. I only hope that it lasts as long as my old NAS !

This is a small powerhouse of a NAS. For its size and cost its a brilliant piece of kit with room to expand, add SSD and faster network if required. Im running PLEX and VMs with no issues at all. 4k is smooth and transcodes are quick Its quiet, its quick, its well made. Its got plenty of options for connectivity and slots to add ssd/hdd for extra storage or backup as well as internal nvme slots and a slot for a card at the back Qnap is easy to use and set up and this is definitely worth the money

Bought this to replace a failed TS-253. A Lot quicker and a nice little upgrade from the model before. Just in case you are wondering you can directly move your hard disk from your old QNAP right into a new one without any configuring as the data layout and applications are all backwards compatible.

Reasonable price for a lot of functionality and decent specs too, expandable too so a great investment.

A very good NAS. I didn't give it 5 stars because I also have a QNAP TS-221 which was so easy for a novice to set up whereas the TS-264 takes a lot more effort. Having used the TS-221 for many years I have sufficient knowledge to be able to set up the TS-264 without wading through the manual.

So after my 8 year old QNAP TS-253 Pro failed with the dreaded Intel Celeron degrading clock issue that occurs with that processor manufactured circa 2016, I was in desperate need of a new NAS. After researching 2 bay NAS units from Synology and QNAP I decided that I would stick with QNAP, the hardware of the TS-264-8G certainly is impressive for a consumer device, the old TS-253 Pro being more small business focused and well specified. Another deciding factor was the competitive price offered by Amazon, a good £60-80 cheaper than other reputable vendors. The setup was a breeze, I suppose my familiarity with the operating system QTS 5 helped with that but it is a relatively easy task for new users as you get a walk through process. I would recommend users first download and install the QNAP QFinder Pro app for Windows or other OS to make the process easier. The app will locate the NAS on the network and you can directly open a browser from it with the correct IP already set and continue setup via the browser. The first step of the setup will look for a firmware update and install that to get you up and running. My user case was straight forward as I was just going to transfer my Hard Drives from the old NAS to the new one, this worked well as both had the same firmware. That's something I really like about QNAP, even though the old one was a good few years old it has been well supported even though technically it is end of life. Before powering the new NAS up I had a look into the drive bay after removing the user removeable cover. The first thing I spotted was that the 8Gb of RAM was socketed and there was also a second unpopulated slot, so out came my box of computer bits and I found an 8Gb 2666 SO-DIMM that should theoretically work, popped it in and now have 16Gb which should help with a couple of VMs I run. Also accessible are the 2 PCI-e NVME slots which I plan to use at a later date, probably just as Cache but they can be used as part of the Storage Pool. There is also a rear slot that takes a low profile PCI-e card for peripherals. I must say that the whole NAS is extremely quiet in operation and I can barely hear it when I'm sat a foot away. As I said before the standard hardware is great, 2 x 2.5Gb network ports, 1 x HDMI, 4 x USB 3 ports, so that covers pretty much anything you'll want to connect to it. The drive bay carriers can take 2.5" drives with screws but if you're just using 3.5" they just clip in screwless. One thing that was immediately noticeable over the old NAS was the overall speed of the OS and interface, it's blistering by comparison. So far I am extremely happy that I purchased the TS-264-8G, I've no doubt its build quality and support will give me many years of sterling service. It's a shame the old one failed but I have since brought it back to life with the 100 Ohm resistor hack but the longevity of that is an unknown, it could last a day or go on forever, who knows but its not worth the risk?

Quality piece of kit, got this for Home Assistant and it's a beast, took less than 10 minutes to get HDD and SSD installed and booted. Very happy with it.

The file transfer performance of this device was actually good, but folks paying £400 for a NAS will likely be more interested in its ability to run VM's and Docker containers. The basic file transfer functionality is available on far cheaper devices. My experience using the more advanced features was full of troubles. IT is my living so im not a beginner here. I had complete refusals to import OVA/OVF files for pre existing VM's (30GB), and random crashing of its web interface when bringing up and terminating containers (wordpress). There is literally no excuse for this behaviour and no reason why doing *anything* with docker containers should crash the nas web interface. Once it dies there was no way to recover it beyond a hard reset via the front panel switch. It would not accept SSH connections either. Eventually, I got sick of the constant issues, boxed it up and returned it. Life is simply too short! Other issues were the circa 10 mins boot time, and random failures to start the web interface on boot. A NAS should be something you can fit and forget, not something that needs to be messed with constantly simply to keep it running.

Das QNAP TS-264-8G überzeugt durch starke Performance und vielseitige Einsatzmöglichkeiten. Die Einrichtung ist einfach und übersichtlich, selbst ohne große Vorkenntnisse. Dank der guten Hardware läuft das System schnell und stabil, auch bei mehreren gleichzeitigen Anwendungen. Besonders positiv sind die vielen Funktionen für Datensicherung, Medienverwaltung und Virtualisierung. Die Verarbeitung ist hochwertig und der Betrieb angenehm leise. Insgesamt ein sehr zuverlässiges NAS mit viel Leistung. Wichtig ist, dass es ohne Festplatten geliefert wird und kann/muss individuell bestückt werden.

Acheté pour en faire un Serveur Plex, je ne saurai que trop recommander ce NAS, alors venant du monde Synology, c'est sûr c'est moins intuitif et moins joli, l'interface n'est pas très facile à prendre en main. Mais les réglages proposés sont plus nombreux. On a la main sur plus de paramètres. Et surtout ! par rapport aux Synology, il est très évolutif. Possibilité de rajouter la mémoire (qui au contraire de Synology ne vaut pas une fortune) Possibilité de rajouter 2 SSD Mvne De rajouter une carte d'extension... des ports USB et une Prise 2.5Ghz réseau. Introuvable au même prix chez le concurrent. Et c'est ce que je reproche à Synology, le manque d'évolutivité, un monde trop fermé, avec des composants uniquement estampillés de la marque. Et pas assez d'option pour des prix que je trouve très élevés. Alors QNAP n'est pas la révolution, mais au moins on peut booster sa configuration au fur et à mesure de l'évolution de ses besoins. Je recommande

Great little server. - Great performances for home NAS use. I use the 2 2.5gbps port. (260mo read and 200Mo/s write with 2 Seagate 12To and without NVME cache SSD throught SMB) - Work fine for streaming 4x HDR movies with material transcoder (I use Jellyfin) - QTS OS allow container dockers. - I can catch my NVR video stream on it.

Arrivato nei tempi stabiliti, il TS-264 è praticamente esternamente identico al mio vecchio TS-212P che per il momento ad affiancarlo per poi sostituirlo. Ho installato 1 SSd da 2TB e 1 HDD da 12TB nei due slot per HDD e una SSD da 1TB nello slot NVMe per la cache,,, ho avuto la sorpresa di trovare la ram non saldata, ma su uno dei due slot disponibili e quindi a giorni installerò il secondo banco da 8GB. L'installazione hardware è semplicissima... in 10 minuti si può accendere... il problema è la configurazione per i miei gusti. Venendo dal 212P, ho trovato tante cose differenti, naturalmente essendo trascorsi quasi 11 anni, il 212p lo presi nel 2011, iniziando da quello che più mi interessava... il servizio multimediale per poter accedere dai vari TV di casa a video, foto e musica conservati nel NAS. Nel 212P c'è Twonky... tutto facile... nel 264 non ho capito che usare... Vedrò nel prossimi giorni... aggiornerò. Per adesso voto 4 stelle. Aggiornamento... niente da fare, non riesco a far funzionare la multimedialità. dal TV di casa non riesco a vedere i video che sono nell'HDD connesso all'usb esterno... nessuno. Mentre quelli che sono nel secondo HDD interno il programma mi fa vedere alcune DIR a suo piacimento... naturalmente sarò io che non riesco , ma con TWONKY era tutto molto più semplice. Notizia ottima è che ho inserito una memoria nel secondo slot da 8GB della Crucial che il sito diceva essere compatibile con il TS-464. L'ho presa da Amazon pagata 22 euro, giunta in 2 gg. e funziona perfettamente... alla faccia di altri che vendevano una compatibile a 80 euro sempre su amazon... ora il programma mi riporta 15,42 GB utilizzabili. Che dire dopo qualche giorno di prove... che, tranne la multimedialità, sono contentissimo. La velocità di trasferimento da un SSD sul PC all'HDD interno è di 279MBs... il 212p, che ho di fianco ancora, al massimo arriva a 45MBs il 600% in più. Aggiornamento : dopo 1 mese ho acquistato la licenza di Twonky e scaricato l’ultima versione dal loro sito… adesso la multimedialità funziona perfettamente e quindi oggi, a distanza di due anni , posso dire che é un ottimo nas in tutto e gli do 5 stelle.

Creo que actualmente es el mejor Nas pequeño del mercado, muy por encima de Ugreen en software, es bastante potente y recomiendo meterle un módulo 8 gb ddr4 de ram, para llegar a 16