Should You Still Buy the QNAP TS-453D NAS?

[@thirdperspectivemedia3495]

Literally ordered this one (also my first NAS) last night. Thanks for educating me on everything NAS. You are a fantastic resource.

[@achieving_life]

How much for?

[@thirdperspectivemedia3495]

@@achieving_life B&H had a bundle deal. I got 4 6TB HDDs with the unit upgraded with 8GB memory for $1,200 USD ($180 discount). It may go even lower, I'm sure, if I see it lower I'll return this one and buy it cheaper for sure.

[@Whitefox1331]

Had it from release fantastic little nas uv not gone wrong with ur first nas.

[@LSUEngineer1978]

Robbie, When the TS-253D came out in early summer 2020 your recommendation made lots of sense. It has turned out to be much better than I expected. I think that the QNAP apps at first were equal to Synology's but now are better than Synology's ( I have a DS218+ and it's still a good NAS for sure). I've added a QNAP 10Gbe card and upgraded to 16Megs RAM. I use link aggregation for the two 2.5Gbe Ports. Have External SATA & NVMe drives connected using USB ports and QNAP 5Gbe adapter in one of the USB3.2 ports. Populated the 253D with 2 x 6T IronWolf drives in RAID 1 config. This NAS is just a great little workhorse for my SOHO and my families use. So I agree the X53D series NAS is still a great recommendation. And I'm glad that I followed your review and advise last year. So thanks for the reviews and keeping us folks up to date on the latest from Synology, QNAP, etc.. Best regards.

[@Onkfrog]

I'm following your channel a while now and it helped me a lot considering my upgrade. Originally I thought about the 453D, but got a couple weeks ago the 653D for just 535 € and added four 8 TB Ironwolfes ( 800 €) and still have some head room for the future. I also added 16GB ram from a NAS-supplier for 90€, not cheap, but they are certified and work...instead of some "supposed to run" curicals from amazon. It's mostly for plex....and a vm here and there....and some other data-storage here and this and that.... It's replacing two old NAS. I alread sold those with the rather old and used drives for around 250 € each and have now 3 times more space, even combined more CPU power, more ethernet speed....and far more happienes while using it. Thank you for your support!

[@HieronymousCheese]

This is exactly the video I needed right now. Thank you so much! Home user: Plex and file server/storage, backing up to 2nd NAS/cloud. Finger hovering over the 653D Buy button (since the price is currently extremely low - perhaps because the E is coming)! Would go for one of the AMD-powered devices, but the graphics card for transcoding will cost extra AND with energy prices increasing, I want to keep the power draw to a minimum. Would go for Synology, but they seem to want to cripple their NAS's to force users to pay way over the odds for their own brand stuff (RAM, etc). No, thanks!! I think the 653D will cover my simple needs for the coming years, and the old 453A can be repurposed as a backup in the cellar.

[@frnzis]

I'm italian, great video and great nas. I bought it! TS-453D.

[@jGRite]

I bought this (6 bay) a month ago when my external storage started to get low. I've yet to unlock everything I wanted to do with it. It was also the only NAS I could find that I could use my nvme pcie card (not m.2) on without issue.

[@Dr-AK]

I cannot decide between a ts-453D or synology 920+, can you help? Do you have a recent video comparing them in detail? I want to use for plex pass, home/office back-up of files and photos. This transcoding issues keeps coming up and people say just buy an old computer and run a nas software on it. Honestly all the info gets a bit over-whelming at times, thanks for all you time a detail on these, once the investment goes to either qnap or synology or neither and use free nas or other generic options I feel that I do not want to have to change right away.

[@bucketfootbaseball]

Seriously looking at this or the 653D as a replacement for my nearly 7 year old TS-451.

[@sleepingwarrior4618]

Nahhhh, the differences don't make enough sense to pay again.

[@Drew1701D]

Did anyone upgrade the memory of the 4GB unit? or buy it with memory already at 16GB? pro and or cons?

[@koenpijpersphotography]

Thank you for this just what I need, Tthink of getting this 4 bay NAS for my backup of my pictures and editing trom this NAS.

[@the0samios]

Hello and thank you for your great advice on choosing my next NAS. Quick question you talked about the PCI expansion that in the 2 bay it can be better utilized due to less system requirements than the 4 bay. So is it possible to deactivate some of the features like the HDMI if it's not used or any USB ports that they aren't used? Or if i use the NVM and a USB adapter for gigabit? Thank you in advance

[@SEEtheREPLAY]

I need a NAS for home use only. Occasional 4K single stream. Is this worthy

[@Zomlies]

Is that one compatible with the thunderbolt 3 expansion card QXP-T32P?

[@darknessviking]

i bought the nas 230 and it works great for me

[@lior307]

GREAT Review from you AS ALWAYS !!! Can you tell the Differences Between: 453D-4G to 453D-8G ?? If I buy the 453D-4G and add 4G ram - WILL they be the same OR Is there a Different in the OS ROM size or something elss??

[@peterschmidt9942]

Thanks for the video. I've been seriously considering the TS-x53d series to replace my failing TS-453 Pro. Its stuck on system booting, but still runs and been doing so for a while. I was going to do the DOM replacement thing, but really couldn't be stuffed mucking around with something that will probably fail sooner than later with the J1900 chip. At least I can swap the drives from the old into the new easily if I stick with QNAP. While the hardware specs for this seem great, still seems a bit silly (even though this NAS is 2yo) there's less USB 3.0 ports than the one I currently have. Having an external brick is a better idea than an internal PSU, reducing the size and easier to replace (not that the PSU on my QNAP has ever failed in 5yrs). The PCIe expansions a great idea too - although I don't hold much weight in the TS-453D still being around working to upgrade in 5yrs time if the TS-453 Pro is anything to go by LOL. It's always in the back of my mind now that as soon as the warranty expires, QNAP will put out some firmware to kill the unit so you need to upgrade.

[@sugarkingfpl]

Excellent video !!! Will there be an upgraded version of this NAS soon ? Perhaps a new version with the N5025 or higher chip set ? as its cousings 464 ?etc

[@allansh828]

I used TS-231K for a day. Now I am considering replacing with this. Arm processor with only 1GB RAM inside TS-231K is just atrocious. It takes 5 minutes to boot up and gets stuck resizing volumes every time.

[@sugarkingfpl]

A great question that I often ask myself is how powerful is the GPU on these devices vs others that accept GPUS, ie. 473a. Up to now, I haven't seen a review of GPU vs Intel GPU (j4215) for video transcoding. How much performance would you get giving the quality of the intel j4125 chipset and a 1660 for example on a NAS like a 473a. SInce the 473a doesnt have 3x16 what should one expect ? thanks !

[@EViL3666]

In my experience, unless you watching across a low bandwidth connection, my devices always revert to Direct Play.. I have the previous generation TS-873 and fitted a gtx-1050ti, it got used twice according to Tautulli....YMMV but I would go for the TS-x73A over these, better CPU, exponentially more expandability... Saying that, I ended up selling my 3 QNAPs, got fed up with their god aweful approach to firmwares, constantly playing wack-a-mole with critical severity vulnerabilities .. I replaced them with DS1821+, now rather than weekly critical firmware updates, I get one every 3-6 months.

if i buy the 4 gb 4 bay version would it still be able to use the hyper data protector app? i mainly want to backup hyper-v machines.

[@outdooradventuresuk]

very helpful video, thinking of buying one as will be great as i do a lot of video editing and photography so need a lot of storage, i now use a netgear readynas, it looks like the same drives are good for both, red drives, can i take them out of the netgear and install into the qnap, or will i have to format them and reinstall from backup, at the mo they use rais 5, many thanks for your help

[@MrScrubtech1962]

I just got a 653D I'm Looking to put an ssd in for PLEX What would recommend?

[@dannyb6618]

This one makes more noise than my Nespresso machine… probably dues the disks… but even mine old Synology with standard drives didn’t make this much noise..

[@jacquesb5248]

very interesting.....i can't complain about my 431p....it does what i need to have....ED. i was hacked but got lucky and hardly lost data. and every now and then get brute force attempts to login in,,,,,

[@JEDiJAWA360]

Looking to buy my first NAS. Kinda focused on the Ds920 but then I saw the TS-453D. Which you you recommend today? Both are currently the same price on Amazon in the US. Primarily will be used for PLEX as my 2 USB external 8TB drives are nearing capacity.

[@Whitefox1331]

Had this from release date it's a fantastic little nas. Use it for plex and kodi too use a nivida shield it runs excellent 4k playback. If the information helps you.

[@Ositao]

What is the plural of NAS ? Certainly not what the Auto-Generated subtitles gets.... LOL 14:06 19:07 XD

[@andaroo79]

Oh dear

[@paulz4632]

No, unless it has 10gbe built it don't waste your money, a raid of sata drives can give you min 800mps, 2.5gbe what a joke, you can get a austor as400t for $200 and it has 10gbe than gets you 380mps still faster than this in default form. Best nas to get now is still the qnap 472xt 2nd hand you see them about $500 now . Nas compares you really need to call out the crap there selling , 10gbe with Nvme as a minimum esp for anything costing over 500 quid or 800 AU. Also the samsung 870 evo plus 2TB are TLC not QVO are $200 now giving you 1200mps on the 472xt's sustained. With wifi 6 also now you def need a 600mps + Nas not just a lame 250mps unit like this. Also the TS453d has theslow 2x2 PCI interface which is useless for any expansion options the TS253d least has the ability to run the 10gbe card but with Nvmie about 850mps so again not worth your money the 472x again better value esp as a older model found cheaper that this one

[@TiesiogJazokas]

Im looking for my first Nas. Synology 220+ used 260€ or qnap 253d 4g rAm used 280€. Synology or qnap? For PLEX 4k,full hd, iphones backup , and storAge