Installation & First Run

Installation starts by putting all the drives inside the QNAP TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS. Considering QNAP went with 8 hot-swappable bays, installing the hard drives is very quick and easy -- simply remove each individual tray and secure the hard drive using four screws.

The adjacent step requires you to run the Quick Setup Magician and configure the TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS. Here users must install the Firmware that is supplied on a CD or download updated versions if bachelor from the QNAP website. Once the firmware is installed in that location is a quick six step setup procedure.

The first footstep requires users to assign the TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS a server proper name -- we went with QNAP. Side by side you must create an ambassador password using any combination of characters with no restraints on how complex the password must exist. Step three requires users to enter the engagement, fourth dimension and zone of the server. So step four allows yous to either select DHCP or manually configure the IP settings for the network.

The fifth step allows users to manually select which services they wish to utilise. Here y'all'll observe a number of FTP, Multimedia and Spider web Server features that can be enabled or disabled depending on preference. Features such as Apple networking, for instance, can be disabled if y'all have no intention of using it.

Finally the last step allows users to setup the disk configuration -- nosotros had unmarried disk, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 5 and RAID 6 as possible options. Once you have configured the hard drives y'all are taken to the "finish" page where an overview of all configuration options is displayed.

For the purpose of this review we installed four Western Digital RE3 Enterprise 1TB difficult drives into the TS-809 Pro Turbo. This provided us with 4TB of high performance storage. At roughly $70 each, the full difficult bulldoze nib amounted to $280, though subsequently spending $1,700 on an 8-bay organization we doubtable businesses will desire to install at least 8TB of storage.

Although the configuration procedure started off quite fast, enabling the network services and initializing the 4 hard drives took some time, we judge close to 20 minutes. One time all that is done, yous will need to connect to the TS-809 Pro Turbo using a web browser, gaining access to the Assistants area.