QNAP TS-451 Review

After the wizard guides you through your configuration, administering your NAS is done through a slick web interface.  The interface hasn’t changed from other models and everything is right where you’d expect it to be. Administration is as easy as 1,2,3. Adding users, groups, and shares can be accomplished in a matter of minutes.

QNAP-TS-451 (44)

Immediately after logging in for the first time, QNAP will guide you through QTS, highlighting some of the key features.

QNAP-TS-451 (51) QNAP-TS-451 (45) QNAP-TS-451 (46) QNAP-TS-451 (47) QNAP-TS-451 (48) QNAP-TS-451 (49) QNAP-TS-451 (50)

The various icons are iOS’ish and provide a clear indication as to their purpose. Up top, you have quick access to various NAS functions. From left to right, the three bars on the left hide a fly out menu, the Home button with hostname shows the desktop when clicked, you have task-bar for open applications, a go to myQNAPcloud button, indicator for background tasks (such as backup schedules), external devices (like battery backups and printers), Event Notification, your logged in user, search, resources, language, and finally desktop preferences.

QNAP-TS-451 (52)

Under the logged in user, you have quick access to your wallpaper preferences, your last login time, changing your password, logging out, as well as power functions for the NAS (sleep, restart, shutdown).

QNAP-TS-451 (53)

General Administration is broken down into 4 major sections. All of which have a number of subsections with tons of configurable items.

  • System Settings
  • Privilege Settings
  • Network Services
  • Applications

System Settings is where you will configure all the basic elements of your NAS.

General Settings:

  • System Administration: Server Name, System Port, hide features like Photo Station, enable SSL
  • Time: Adjust the date, time, and time zone according to the location of the NAS
  • Daylight Savings Time
  • Codepage: Select the filename encoding for non-Unicode file name conversion
  • Password Strength: Specify the password rules
  • Login Screen: Select a template for the login screen

QNAP-TS-451 (54) QNAP-TS-451 (55) QNAP-TS-451 (56) QNAP-TS-451 (57) QNAP-TS-451 (58) QNAP-TS-451 (59)

Storage manager: Manage volumes and RAID systems, monitor the health of hard drives, encrypt and decrypt file systems, and configure iSCSI systems and virtual disks with Storage Manager.

  • Volume Management: This page shows the model, size, and current status of the hard drives on the NAS
  • RAID Management
  • Hard Disk S.M.A.R.T: Monitor the hard disk drives (HDD) health, temperature, and the usage status by HDD S.M.A.R.T.
  • Encrypted File System
  • iSCSI
  • Virtual Disk: You can use this function to add the iSCSI targets of other QNAP NAS or storage servers to the NAS as the virtual disks for storage capacity expansion.

QNAP-TS-451 (60) QNAP-TS-451 (61) QNAP-TS-451 (62) QNAP-TS-451 (63) QNAP-TS-451 (64) QNAP-TS-451 (65) QNAP-TS-451 (66)

Network: This is where you find your NAS communication skills. You can quick access to link status, configure port trunking, wifi, IPv6, Bind services to specific interfaces, configure a proxy, and enable a Dynamic DNS service. This is useful if you don’t use QNAP’s cloud solution.

QNAP-TS-451 (67) QNAP-TS-451 (68) QNAP-TS-451 (69) QNAP-TS-451 (70) QNAP-TS-451 (71) QNAP-TS-451 (72)

About Joe D

I have always had a passion for everything computing. In early 2000, I decided to take my passion to the web. Thus, C.O.D. was born. Through the years we have made many great friends at C.O.D. and hope to continue our journey for years to come.

Check Also

ASUSTOR AS5008T Review

ASUSTOR has become one of my go to manufacturers for NAS. They have made some great NAS at some very affordable prices. Naturally, as time goes on, components are less expensive for consumers and for manufacturers. This allows NAS makers to pack more power into their storage appliances without increasing costs. In some cases, we are finding more powerful NAS at lower costs. To compliment this decrease in costs, production ramps up, R&D ramps up, and product enhancements increase. Ok, the point of all that? ASUSTOR has released a new 8-bay NAS, gave it more power, slapped a new name on it, and... lowered the cost. Enter the AS5008T.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.