![]() The TurboNAS TS-420 follows the same design as most NAS Servers by QNAP and measures 177mm in height, 180mm in width and 235mm in depth with a weight of 3kg. QNAP has placed the TS-420 between two thick foam spacers while the rest of the bundle with the exception of the power cable is placed inside a small cardboard box.Īlthough not very rich the bundle is quite sufficient and includes the TS-420, two Ethernet RJ45 cables, two small bags with mounting screws for 2.5/3.5" drives, the power cable with the power adapter and quick installation paper. Once you open the box you will see a thank you message from QNAP along with 2d barcodes pointing to their online social pages. On the right side QNAP mentions their cloud service and their android/iOS apps.ĭescriptions of the main stations and features are placed at the rear of the box. The features (usages) of the TS-420 are placed on the left side in 23 languages while right beneath them we see two small pictures of the TS-420 used to point its connectors, buttons and activity LEDs. We received the TS-420 inside a large white box (white is obviously not the best for our photo bench) with a large product image at the front right beneath its main hardware specifications and above its main features/stations. So the time has come to see exactly what you can expect from the latest 4bay TurboNAS TS-420 by QNAP. Finally as usual QNAP offers quite a few Android/iOS Apps from where you can check the state of the NAS and also control many of its functions but since we've already covered them in many reviews in the past this time over we decided to skip them at least until a new feature or version comes along. Now although the TurboNAS TS-420 gets shipped with the 3.8.2 firmware inside we used the latest version of the QNAP Turbo Station (4.0.2) which is quite easier to navigate compared to previous versions and also a lot better looking. Other hardware features include two rear eSATA connectors, two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 and two Gigabit Ethernet ports so as you can see although the TS-420 is a home & small office oriented model it still offers much in terms of connectivity. The CPU used is actually capable of clocks of up to 2GHz (1.6/1.8/2.0GHz) but that's also the main difference between the TS-420 and the slightly better (and more expensive) TS-421 released at around the same time. Much like with most home & soho oriented NAS servers the TurboNAS TS-420 does not come with stellar hardware specifications and so under its hood QNAP has placed a Marvell Kirkwood 88F6282 SoC single core CPU running at 1.6GHz along with 512MB of DDR3 memory. Headquartered in Taipei, QNAP delivers its solutions to the global market with nonstop innovation and passion. QNAP integrates technologies and designs to bring forth quality products that effectively improve business efficiency on file sharing, virtualization applications, storage management and surveillance in the business environments, as well as enrich entertainment life for home users with the offering of a fun multimedia center experience. QNAP Systems, Inc., as its brand promise "Quality Network Appliance Provider", aims to deliver comprehensive offerings of cutting edge network attached storage (NAS) and network video recorder (NVR) solutions featured with ease-of-use, robust operation, large storage capacity, and trustworthy reliability. So for the past two weeks we've been putting the latest quad bay NAS server to hit the market by QNAP the TurboNAS TS-420 through rigorous testing to see if it has what it takes to win the hearts of home and office users. That being said with the current state of HDD prices it really doesn't come as a surprise to see that consumers are not as interested in single bay models as they are in dual and quad ones and who can blame them since having at least one more available bay for future expansion is the obvious choice. Well lately we've seen the introduction of not only expensive models designed and manufactured by both old and new companies with business customers as their main target audience but also low and mid-end ones developed mostly for house and office use. As the popularity of NAS devices (or NAS servers as we like to call them) keeps increasing every day naturally many of you expect from us to focus in getting some of the latest models to hit the market from all the major players for testing purposes.
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