#1 most frequent
United States of America
21.2%273 installations of 1,288
What is QNAP NAS?
QNAP offers a wide array of network-attached storage units for SMBs, home, and enterprise.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses QNAP NAS
#2 most frequent
Turkey
6.8%88 installations of 1,288
#3 most frequent
Canada
5.7%74 installations of 1,288
QNAP NAS Solutions Home and Business are awesome!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I have used QNAP NAS both personally and professionally to share files with Family and friends at home and along side a Camera System, File SHare, Backup Solution in industry. QNAP has great Access permission options, RAID for redundancy and also a load of Sync and accessibility features to give customers all the tools they need to get whatever they need done!
Pros
- File Share
- Security Camera NVR
- Backups
- RAID
- Easy of Use
- Storage Expansion
Cons
- Affordable Rack Mount Units
- UI/UX
- Price to Performance
Return on Investment
- NO SUBRSCIPTIONS for Apps and Services
- NO Backup cost after initial cost and Maintenance
- Simple to use so no need for a IT Specialist
Usability
Alternatives Considered
TrueNAS and Synology DiskStation
Other Software Used
Proxmox VE, Google Workspace, Adobe Acrobat Sign, Synology DiskStation, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Ubiquiti Networks UniFi
QNAP an excellent storage expansion
Pros
- Ability to scale and increase storage as needed.
- Safe RAID setups to protect on hard drive failures.
- A lot of apps to address many aspects of business.
- Ability to expand memory.
- New 10GB connection available.
Cons
- I can not think of any at this moment.
- Not a con - but security issues are due to users' negligence.
Return on Investment
- Cost effective to expand storage for all organization.
- Great hardware that lasts many years.
- Safety to many different business purposes.
Alternatives Considered
Dell EMC Celerra (Discontinued)
QNAP NAS - very cheap and very reliable.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it for a file share, but the first reason is for backup. We have many installations, even in the data center of our cloud provider. For backup Virtual Machine (usually snapshot) and for our Oracle and Sqlserver production databases. We use Smb, NFS, i-SCSI directly attached to the machine (for disk quorum cluster), and so far nothing to complain about.
Pros
- File share
- Raid
- Very friendly interface.
Cons
- For our business it's more than enough.
Most Important Features
- Expandability
- All the way that we can use it as NAS
- Interface is very friendly so event non IT people can manage.
Return on Investment
- I cannot quantify, but it really saves a lot of money for backup.
Other Software Used
Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Veeam ONE
Extremely Durable and good looking Devices!
Pros
- Save pc with VEEAM images
- Share files and save them
- NAS to NAS backup over internet
- Surveillance
Cons
- I've had difficulties upgrading firmwares
- Reboot it's even very slow , like 15/20 minutes but that's not so critical
Most Important Features
- Save customers pc in VEEAM Images to work on the machines to repair them
- Share data
- NAS to NAS backup on premise and over internet
- Stock old data to judge
Return on Investment
- POSITIVE: Very high quality NAS, durable, we sell them, then we make HW contracts for manteining them and they don't need nothing they are STRONG
- POSITIVE: they are good looking, customer even appreciate them also in that way
- NEGATIVE: They are slow updating and rebooting.. but that's not so negative
- POSITIVE: There are full of functionality i think you can find like everything you may need from a NAS, also for MULTIMEDIA
Alternatives Considered
NETGEAR ReadyNAS and Synology DiskStation
Other Software Used
Veeam Backup & Replication, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), N-able Backup (formerly Solarwinds Backup), N-able Mail Assure (formerly Solarwinds Mail Assure), Microsoft SQL Server
The perfect all-in-one system for storage and more.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have been working with QNAP NAS devices for more than 11 years. As you know, storage solutions require more space every day and must be available at all times.
When we received the first of the QNAP NAS solutions, it managed us very well for 3 years and met our expectations. When we realized that the capacity of the first device we bought was not enough and that we could produce very different solutions with the QNAP NAS, we immediately bought our second device and it has progressed in this way and now we have 3 devices.
Pros
- Management interface is very useful
- Quick solutions can be produced with flexible storage pools
- It can create a powerful customizable system on its own, along with connectivity features and add-ons.
- A powerful customizable system can be created with flexible connectivity features and add-ons.
- Advanced user management can be easily provided either in its own interface or on the domain.
- It can take on the role you want with its integrated modes or add-ons that you can install later.
- Most wonderful feature, advanced support service, we never had any unsolved problems and the support engineer was always interested, followed one to one
- With web, ssh, ftp, winscp connections, you can easily access in any environment.
Cons
- It is not related to the QNAP NAS, but the most common problem we have experienced is with the disks themselves.
Return on Investment
- The NAS Server itself is expandable, so you can develop it instead of changing it whenever you need it. Such as Ram, Network Bandwidth, Disk Capacity.
- We have not experienced any hardware malfunctions in these years, the hardware structure is very stable. Even at first, the environment in which we were running the device was not what it should be, but it still did not cause any problems.
- We stopped doing investment cost analysis because it looks like it will work until we retire.
Alternatives Considered
Synology DiskStation, FreeNAS and Windows Server
Other Software Used
IBM FlashSystem 5000 (formerly Storwize V5000E), Huawei OceanStor