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[eBay Plus] QNAP TS-431P2 4 Bay NAS with 1GB RAM $288.15 Delivered @ Computer Alliance eBay

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[eBay Plus] QNAP TS-431P2 4 Bay NAS with 1GB RAM $288.15 Delivered @ Computer Alliance eBay
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O O on 06/09/2019 - 13:48 ebay.com.au (850 clicks)
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The best price for QNAP TS-431P2 NAS I'd seen so far. This model is RAM upgradable, good for those intend to install heap of apps, e.g. Plex, sonarr, radarr, ownCloud/Nextcloud…, or use snapshot feature.

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The TS-431P2 features three USB 3.0 ports and dual Gigabit LAN ports, delivering outstanding multitasking performance for your backup, synchronization, and remote access needs on a secure private cloud. The quad-core TS-431P2 provides powerful hardware capabilities, enabling Qfiling (automated file organization) and Qsirch (full-text search) for more intelligent day-to-day NAS use. Many feature-rich apps are available to enhance your productivity & digital life, including Notes Station (create digital notes on a secure private cloud and share with colleagues and friends), QmailAgent (centralize email account management and back up emails), and Qcontactz (centrally store and manage contact information). The TS-431P2 also supports Snapshots, allowing you to easily restore your TS-431P2 to a previous state in the event of an unexpected NAS failure or when struck by a ransomware attack. What’s more, you can now integrate various IoT devices into your TS-431P2 and quickly develop, deploy, and host IoT applications with QNAP’s innovative QIoT Suite Lite.

  • Quad-core 1.7GHz processor with up to 8 GB memory
  • Supports Qfiling automated file organization and Qsirch full-text search engine
  • Full NAS encryption using volume-based technology and hardware acceleration
  • Rapidly develop and deploy IoT applications with Container Station and QIoT Suite Lite
  • Supports QmailAgent as a mailroom center and Qcontactz for centralizing contact information
  • Stream your multimedia library via DLNA®, AirPlay® and Chromecast™
  • Build a surveillance center to safeguard your home and office

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  • pw2002au on 06/09/2019 - 13:55

    Good price for this model as you highlighted but the only difference between this and TS-431P is the upgradable RAM (and the ridiculous price difference between the two) from my reading. I presume additional RAM isnt going to assist too much in trying to get the machine to do any form of transcoding for plex.

    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/compare/QNAP_TS-431P_4-Bay_NA…

    • O O on 06/09/2019 - 14:03
      +2

      In addition, TS-431P2 comes with quad-core processor, while TS-431P comes with dual-core processor.

  • beigehornet on 06/09/2019 - 13:56

    quick search on reviews turns up this is a pretty decent unit.

  • deepfriedchips on 06/09/2019 - 14:05

    So it's not suited to transcoding for plex? Sorry, im a bit of a novice on this stuff.

      • SirNed on 06/09/2019 - 14:18

        Guessing that would be a solid NO for that question then

      • weapon88 on 06/09/2019 - 17:34

        Thanks for this! Very helpful.

    • jv on 06/09/2019 - 14:35

      I have the 453Be which transcodes without skipping a beat, but costs a bit more though… Got one with a 20% off sale on ebay about a year back.

      • spackbace on 06/09/2019 - 14:53

        So yours has a quad-core 1.5GHz, this has a quad-core 1.7GHz from what I can tell

        https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/compare/QNAP_TS-453Be_4-Bay_N…

        Hmm ok 453Be is streaks ahead

        • SickDmith on 06/09/2019 - 15:36
          +1

          I believe CPU types are too different between these two units for a simple comparison - I believe 431P2 got ARM CPU and 453Be got Intel x86 CPU.

      • rxjb on 06/09/2019 - 15:36

        rather than transcode on the NAS, could you hook up an old laptop to do the transcoding on and send back to the NAS?

        • jv on 06/09/2019 - 18:55

          It's done real-time…

        • bdl on 07/09/2019 - 20:14

          You could run Plex on the laptop and mount the NAS storage to the laptop. You wouldn't be "sending back" anything to the NAS in this situation, the Plex installation on the laptop would just be seeing the NAS as a network drive, from which it would retrieve the relevant file, transcode then send onwards to your Plex client.

          ie. NAS Storage -> Plex on laptop (which transcodes) -> Plex Client

  • ozoner on 06/09/2019 - 14:37

    Does this unit have flex-raid (or the QNAP equivalent) ? IE can you mix disk sizes in raid5 (equivalent) without losing capacity?
    (eg. 6tb+6tb+4tb+4tb = 14tb usable, not 12tb).

    • jv on 06/09/2019 - 14:41
      -1

      (eg. 6tb+6tb+4tb+4tb = 14tb usable, not 12tb).

      wouldn't that be 20tb ???

      • nafe on 06/09/2019 - 14:44
        +1

        He did say Raid5…..

        • jv on 06/09/2019 - 14:45

          my bad…

      • ozoner on 06/09/2019 - 14:46
        +1

        Not if it's redundant, no. Synology and Readynas (and presumably others) have features which mean you can mismatch disk size and use the largest disk for parity (so 6+4+4 and a 6 for parity = 14). I'm asking if this does the equivalent, without formatting the 6tb's down to 4tb to make all drive sizes a uniform 4tb.

        • nafe on 06/09/2019 - 14:54
          +1

          I don't think the QNAP will do it. Not at this level at least. I haven't seen anything to imply that it will so far.

    • sominaik on 07/09/2019 - 12:56

      Is it possible to use all 4 bays for max storage without using any protection etc.?
      e.g. 8TB, 6TB, 6TB and 4TB .. can I have total of 24TB?

  • CharcoaI on 06/09/2019 - 14:59
    -3

    $254 if you don't need upgradable RAM:
    https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/173408645399

    • Maverick-au on 06/09/2019 - 15:22
      +1

      And different CPU

      • CharcoaI on 06/09/2019 - 15:28

        Just noticed that in the comments - thanks
        CPUs from the spreadsheet linked above.

        TS-431P ARMv7 (Alpine AL-212) 1.7GHz - (Dual Core)
        TS-431P2 ARMv7 (Alpine AL-314) 1.7GHz - (Quad Core)

        Neither of the above are suited for transcoding in Plex however

  • matt1234 on 06/09/2019 - 16:27
    +1

    As long as you ahve decent upload speed you can pretty much turn off transcoding for most videos - just tell it to use the maximum and original quality

    • SickDmith on 06/09/2019 - 18:14

      I am curious if it can be turned off…
      I am under impression there is no way to switch it off.

      • matt1234 on 07/09/2019 - 18:36

        If you play at maximum (with original box ticked) quality it will only transcode weird formats that it doesn't natively support, so as long as your library is full of the usual mp4 x264 videos no transcoding is needed.

  • OZB Al on 07/09/2019 - 11:04

    Just bought this to replace my QNAP TS-431P, as well as a NAS I use it as a docker host running tvheadend, unifi-controller, home-assistant, calibre-web and portainer. It's been really stable despite only having two cores and 1GB.

    Forget transcoding, just use Kodi to access the files.

    Now I want the 8GB RAM upgrade, this is what QNAP specify:

    DDR type: DDRⅢ(204 PIN)
    Capacity: 8GB
    Spec: SAMSUNG 512M X 8
    Manufacturer: TRANSCEND
    Frequency: 1600
    Form(PIN): 204PIN
    Manufacturer P/N: TS1GSK64V6H SAMSUNG
    Power Supply: 1.5V

    Anyone know a cheap local equivalent?

    • OZB Al on 12/09/2019 - 15:08

      Going from TS-431P to TS-431P2 was the easiest upgrade ever, just moved the disks and it all worked. Pulled an 8GB SODIMM from a laptop and that worked fine too. Now what will I do with a TS-431P I don't need…..

  • admoghal on 08/09/2019 - 00:04

    Is this better value with 4Gb ram for $356.15?

    Or better to get with 1g and after that upgrade to 4G?

    https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/QNAP-TS-431P2-4GB-4-Bay-Diskless…

    • O O on 08/09/2019 - 00:09

      If you're comfortable with DIY, you can get a 4GB SODIMM RAM for around $30.

      • ozoner on 08/09/2019 - 18:34

        How well does this run with 1gb if I don't plan on running any apps on it? Will I benefit from upgrading the ram? Does extra ram affect things like raid5 performance and/or rebuild speed?

        Thanks for answering all these questions.

        • O O on 08/09/2019 - 19:55
          +1

          IMO, if you don't intend to run additional apps, 1GB RAM should be fine. Since the 1GbE network is the critical path, the improvement of the additonal RAM on performance improvement is marginal. And I don't think RAID5 operation/rebuild is memory bound.

  • ozoner on 08/09/2019 - 17:46

    Does anyone know if this model requires you to do the 3.3v tape trick for a shucked drive or not? I read some NASes do, some don't.

    I have 4 x 8gb drives ordered to fill this baby, and need to know if I need to buy some Kapton tape…

    Thanks in advance.

    • O O on 08/09/2019 - 18:09
      +1

      No 3.3V pin modding required.

      • ozoner on 08/09/2019 - 18:28

        Thanks buddy! Good news.

    • admoghal on 08/09/2019 - 20:07

      Can you tell me from where u got 8tb drives
      I am also looking for drive

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