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Outside of the new online capacity expansion and upgraded hardware, there are still those familiar QNAP elements living within the TS-470. This NAS maintains a similar appearance to all the others in the QNAP lineup. In fact, the TS-470 and the TS-469L are the same size, both measure in at 177x180x235. The TS-470 weighs in a bit heavier at a hair over 10lbs, but you aren’t supposed to carry this thing around with you.
QNAP outfits this NAS with their standard blue back-lit LCD display up front, 4 locking drive trays, an enter and select button, an IR receiver, HDD LEDs, Status indicators, a Power button, the familiar One Touch Backup button, and a single USB 2.0 port. I am not exactly sure why QNAP chose to outfit this NAS with a USB 2.0 port up front as I would rather not have to spin the unit around to connect a much faster USB 3.0 device for backup.
Around back you have audio connectivity, two eSATA ports, two USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, a lock, cooling fan, power supply, and a total of four Ethernet ports to satisfy all your bandwidth hungry applications.
The TS-470 features the same unnumbered locking hard drive trays found in many other QNAP models. This allows you to move drives around from NAS to NAS without having to remove the hard drives from the drive trays. This NAS supports drives up to 6TB in size and hard drive transfer speeds up to 6GB/s. RAID options are plentiful: Single Disk, JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 5 + Hot Spare . The benefits and drawbacks of unnumbered drive trays is almost immediately apparent. Great for quickly swapping drives in and out from other QNAP NAS… horrible when you took them all out and can’t remember which went where.
