Qnap TS-632X

This Amazon-powered desktop NAS delivers reasonable performance and features at a good price

DAVE MITCHELL

SCORE PRICE Diskless/4GB, £638 exc VAT from broadbandbuyer.com Qnap offers a wide choice of entry-level SMB NAS appliances, and all bar one have a common feature: they’re powered by Amazon. Or more precisely, chips by Annapurna, an Amazon company. Both the four-bay TS-432X and six-bay TS-632X continues this tradition, with a 4-core 2GHz Annapurna Alpine AL524 SoC inside. The TS-632X is competitively priced, and that value is enhanced by the Alpine’s integral network services, which offers dual 2.5GbE multi-gigabit and 10GbE SFP+ fibre ports. Memory starts at 4GB of non-ECC DDR4, and the single SO-DIMM slot supports up to 16GB. No internal M.2 NVMe SSD slots are provided, but the appliance’s spare PCI-E Gen3 expansion slot supports Qnap’s QM2 dual-slot cards and plenty of network adapters. Just bear in mind…

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