In this article I discuss "unboxing" a new QNAP NAS. The QNAP TS-464.
In my case I was watching Black Friday sales and pulled the trigger, grabbing the latest available NAS from QNAP (TS-464 for $714.22) with 88 TBytes of storage (4 x 22Tbyte WD Red Pro drives $496.19/drive) direct from Western Digital. The best deal by a country mile…
My “all in” price was about $3k CDN.
WD Drive Compatibility
QNAP Setup
The RAID device was delivered diskless with the 4 22Tbyte drives. Since I have no plans to expand this drive and since I don’t plan to use snapshots or QTier, my plan is to use the device as a Raid 5 device out of the box with a “Static” Volume (ie no “thick” or “thin” volumes). This way I will get the highest performance from the device and about 66Tbytes of useable storage space on the static volume.