Manufacturer: QNAP Price: $ 1150 US Author: Steven Walton Date: 10/01/2014

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Today we are checking out the 6-bay model from the latest NAS series from QNAP. The TS-x53 Pro series is powered by an Intel Bay Trail-D quad-core processor and can be purchased in an 8GB configuration. Designed for mission-critical business applications the TS-x53 Pro series is available in 2, 4, 6 and 8-bay models... Just two months ago we reviewed the first desktop NAS to feature an Intel Bay Trail-D processor, the QNAP TS-451 which was one of four new TS-x51 models. The Bay-Trail D processor of choice was the Celeron J1800. What made this such an important choice was it allowed QNAP to utilize Intel’s Quick Sync engine, which enables some useful multimedia features for home users. The TS-x51 series was an important step, as it saw a shift away from Atom based NAS devices for home users to more powerful feature packed Celeron processors. Still, the Celeron J1800 does only feature two cores, which did limit performance somewhat. For business users QNAP was going to need something more powerful which is why we expected them to upgrade their business focused models with either Avoton or Rangeley. This however hasn’t been the case, as QNAP has once again opted for a Bay Trail-D processor in the form of the Celeron J1900. Despite the subtle change in model number, the Celeron J1900 is significantly different to the J1800. Whereas the J1800 is a dual-core part, the J1900 is a quad-core processor and as such features twice as much L2 cache. The more powerful Celeron processor doesn’t just mean that the QNAP TS-x53 Pro series will provide faster data transfer speeds, but also that it will be capable of running more applications. Most notably the Virtualization Station which can handle two VMs concurrently, whereas the TS-x51 series (4GB models) could only run one. Of course all the other features, such as hardware transcoding for example, that were present in the TS-x51 series also exist in the newer TS-x53 Pro series. Priced at $1000 for the 2GB model and $1150 for the 8GB model, the 6-bay QNAP TS-653 Pro isn’t exactly cheap. That said, anyone looking at purchasing a high performance 6-bay desktop NAS should be willing to part with at least $900.

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ProX	Posted on: 10/01/2014 08:58 PM Finally they are starting to reach the limits of a single Gigabit connection when moving smaller files.

William Pitt

Posted on: 10/23/2014 07:17 PM Steve, You you please consider setting up the Sophos UTM Home edition software appliance as a VM on this box (allocating two dedicated ethernet ports to the VM). I currently have this running on a TS-451 with one physical eth1 port and one virtual eth2 port) While running a volume copy to the NAS, having media station indexing files and running the UTM VM I am bumping the J1800s head on utilization (with 4GB ram installed). I posted on the QNAP forums in the "Other" section a step by step for setting up the Sophos UTM as a VM on the 451. http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=98999