QNAP TS-133 Home NAS Server, Single Bay, Quad Core 1.4GHz 1GB Memory, 1x GbE, 2x

This single bay NAS server is actually better than the figures described in the title:[1] it actually has a Arm A55 processor running at 1.8 GHz rather than 1.4 GHz in the title.[2] it has 2GB RAM rather than 1GB described in the title.In my test, running background task only can some times use about 1.2 GB RAM. So 2GB does offer better performance than 1GB.It is quite easy to install a HDD disk and set up. It is light but looks not as solid as my old QNAP TS-433P. But, for its promotion price, there is nothing wrong with it. It comes with the screws for installing the HDD or SATA SSD drive.Apart from one tricky bit, the set up is quite straightforward. The tricky is that the version check tells you the firmware is up to date, while, it is not and you need to ... MoreThis single bay NAS server is actually better than the figures described in the title:[1] it actually has a Arm A55 processor running at 1.8 GHz rather than 1.4 GHz in the title.[2] it has 2GB RAM rather than 1GB described in the title.In my test, running background task only can some times use about 1.2 GB RAM. So 2GB does offer better performance than 1GB.It is quite easy to install a HDD disk and set up. It is light but looks not as solid as my old QNAP TS-433P. But, for its promotion price, there is nothing wrong with it. It comes with the screws for installing the HDD or SATA SSD drive.Apart from one tricky bit, the set up is quite straightforward. The tricky is that the version check tells you the firmware is up to date, while, it is not and you need to manually download the latest image from QNAP web site.It runs very quiet. I put in a Seagate IronWolf NAS HDD which works well during my initial test.

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All the features I expected and more. Professional QNAP for home.

Superb little device once you get used to the OS

I used to be a big Synology fan but switched to self hosting with a mini proxmox server. I needed to use that device for something else so started to look for a new Nas. I dont need 2 bays or more as i duplicate my data elsewhere but i wanted something to serve files locally but also fire up my essential dockers.This is why i landed on the QNAP. Firstly synology devices have never really gained any thing over the years, the hardware / price ratio is always poor at the lower end. Also most of the single and dual bay lower end synology device wont let you run dockers as they do not have enough grunt under the hood.This QNAP however has proven to be an underdog beast for modest needs. First things first if you are a Synology user it takes a few hours to understand ... MoreI used to be a big Synology fan but switched to self hosting with a mini proxmox server. I needed to use that device for something else so started to look for a new Nas. I dont need 2 bays or more as i duplicate my data elsewhere but i wanted something to serve files locally but also fire up my essential dockers.This is why i landed on the QNAP. Firstly synology devices have never really gained any thing over the years, the hardware / price ratio is always poor at the lower end. Also most of the single and dual bay lower end synology device wont let you run dockers as they do not have enough grunt under the hood.This QNAP however has proven to be an underdog beast for modest needs. First things first if you are a Synology user it takes a few hours to understand QNAP OS5, it is not as polished or consistant. QTS5 looks like it was partly designed by a corporate designer from the 90's with the added touch of icons choosen by a poor sighted child. Whilst the desktop is okay as you open up different areas its a complete mix of different UI's. However after playing with it for a week i can navigate swiftly and it is all logically laid out.The QNAP has the first 64bit arm cpu of its class in a budget device, but to be fair this CPU has not broken a sweat at all and is far more powerfull then the competitors at this price range.As well as performing, timemachine, smb, nfs and afp shares i am currently running docker containers including portainer, adguardhome, mariadb, redis, nextcloud, photoprisim and vaultwarden. That completes all you need for your home cloud solution, yet the cpu barely hovers over 25% when in mid use or 6% at idle, obviously whilst using something heavy like nextcloud it does peak at circa 60% albeit for a few seconds.So not only is this Budget NAS doing its nas duties, it has replicated my homelab with ease running all the same dockers with just a little slower loading times than the intel proxmox server. Adguard is set as my DNS resolver thus blocking unwanted traffic and ads and lastly by installing the tailscale app (this was the trickiest thing to get going) it is part of my vpn network of devices and i can vpn from anywhere in the world and access my whole home network as if i was there.So yes at first i thought i had made a mistake not going team synology, however after 1 week this nas has impressed me as it has done more in one week than any of my old synology devices did, it truly is a great little device if you have basic needs or needs like mine where tinkering is permitted