QNAPTS-233 2-bay Desktop NAS Enclosure Quad core processor,White, - 2GB RAM - 2.0GHz, Mechanical Hard Disk

Was very easy to setup 👌Qfile Pro app allows your phone to easily sync selected folders when you get home. Never lose any photos/files again.

Great quality at a good price. Exceeding my expectations.

You need 2 hard disk to cram in here, no surprise.The software is not incredibly intuitive, more so complex, but I guess that's because of how fully-featured it is. I've set up users and folders, I've got Plex running on it, my Sonos library is on there. Basically, for me, it acts as a simple mirror.All working nicely until the day it beeped at me loudly and said 1 of the 2 Seagate NAS disks was suspect, it removed it from the RAID pair and showed red on the front panel. I got myself a new disk and changed it over... the NAS spent several hours (about 6 I think) rebuilding the RAID array and I have green lights on the front again.I don't expect disk failures, maybe I got unlucky... but at least I am not only depending on theory now - my data feels safe enough.

I have used this with Barracuda 4 TB hard drives and with WD 8 TB. Very noisy.

Neat looking and easy to install and set up NAS.

Whilst retired I do have an IT support background. However despite using the recommended NAS drives (Seagate Iron Wolf Pro) which I was intended to use in a RAID1 configuration, I found this NAS so difficult to set up and use that after over 8 hours of trying I decided enough was enough and I am returning it for refund as its simply not intuitive. (unless it's faulty)Keeping it simple, I did use the configuration wizard and this seemed to work, but be warned, there is lots of technical jargon in there and unless you understand this (or google it) then it will not be easy for the uninitiated. Other than a how to physically fit the drives in the bay, there is no manual provided in the box, though this can be downloaded if you can figure out which one to download as even that is not intuitive.I could see and access the drive(s) once it had gone through the configuration and I was able to access them - I think. But then trying to copy files over from my local MacBook Pro hard drive to the NAS just kept failing with some obscure error code. I know it's not the local drive as doing the exact same copy of files to an external SSD worked flawlessly. Likewise, same files could be uploaded to my cloud storage without error. So, can only be the NAS. I also then tried to copy the files from the SSD to the NAS via the direct copy function button on the NAS but this did not work and apparently needs to be configured, but how and where, its not clear and I could not see anything obvious in the QNAS application. Again, not intuitive or user friendly by any stretch of the imagination.Yes, I did try the QNAS on-line help but again this was counter intuitive and I could not even get to their support site for assistance. After 8 hours of struggling and getting nowhere I gave up.If you are a seasoned IT Pro who understands NAS it may be fine, after all I may have done something wrong in the initial config (who knows). If you are a home user with limited technical knowledge then find someone who can help you or avoid and save yourself the frustrations.1 Star as I could not get it to work. That said the build quality seems good.