Qnap TS-433eU
Minimal upgrade potential, but this affordable NAS delivers plenty of features in a remarkably small chassis
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Diskless, £528 exc VAT
from ukstore.qnap.com
Q nap’s TS-433eU will appeal to small offices with limited space as it’s probably the smallest rack-mount NAS appliance on the market. Presented in a chassis that’s a mere 292mm deep, it can be easily fitted in a small wall box, a standard two-post rack cabinet or even placed unobtrusively on a desk.
The appliance offers four hot-swap LFF/SFF drive bays at the front and is powered by a 2GHz quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU. It comes with 4GB of DDR4 RAM, but this is soldered on the motherboard and cannot be upgraded.
Networking comes courtesy of dual 2.5GbE multi-gigabit ports, and two USB-A3.2 Gen 1 ports can be used to expand storage outside the box with Qnap’s equally short four-bay TR-004U disk shelves. No expansion slots are provided so 10GbE is off the menu and, unlike some of Qnap’s other short-depth appliances, the TS-433eU doesn’t have internal M.2 SSD slots.