QNAP TS-855X NAS Review - Tank 6-Bay NAS?

Video Chapters
00:00 - The Start
00:24 - Why I have NEVER Mentioned the QNAP TS-855X NAS till NOW
01:15 - QNAP TS-855X NAS Specifications
01:36 - QNAP TS-855X NAS Unboxing
06:48 - Design of the QNAP TS-855X NAS
12:58 - Ports and Connections of the QNAP TS-855X NAS
16:34 - Internal Hardware of the QNAP TS-855X NAS
24:19 - QNAP QTS and QuTS NAS Software
32:10 - QNAP TS-855X NAS Review Verdict and Conclusion

The NAScompares Podcast - Let's Talk Data

[CalBru]

Seeing comments about extremely loud PSU fan. Is that the case? You didn't even turn it on? :(

[realestatewebb]

Really truly considering the ts 855x for my next NAS this year and you're right there's not a lot out there about this beauty yet. I would love to see it fitted with a GPU in one of the
PCIe slots for video transcoding running Plex Media server. Tune-up website says it's compatible with various 3rd party cards. I may have to do the experiment myself.

[danielfrancis-lyon]

You mentioned that QNAP could have put U.2 bays instead of SATA SSD bays and TS-h973AX has U.2 bays. But TS-h973AX does not have any PCIe slots.
The CPU has limited amounts of PCIe lanes. We can make a PCIe slot or make a U.2 bay. But each 3X4 U.2 bay we make is 1 less 3X4 PCIe slot we can make when it comes to using a CPU with a limited amount of PCIe.

[elodiecemoi]

Great video !
Looking to this TS-855X (to replace my old Synology DS413) and not to a new Synology (I already own a DS1821+): this is because Synology wants to oblige their customers to use their own Synology branded NVMe, RAM and disks !

The built-in 10Gb is important for me because I work essentially with large video files, and the 2xSATA bays (with no restriction to create a storage pool on them) is a must have for the VMs.

And I will not be afraid to be in the mess after each operating system update (with Synology I am always afraid that they lock some functions because they detect a non Synology component) !

Now I am about to watch your videos related to QTS and QuTS: still a bit afraid by the "inconstitencies" that you mention in this video...

[realestatewebb]

I would love to see someone run a test on the TS 855x with a 3rd party GPU someday.

[foundrylabz]

I am not sure if you have done this recently or not.. But i want to know how the qnap software compares to the synology software??? I have a qnap now, but it's slow as heck and it's 1 year. I have noticed it being a huge resource hog and the only thing i really run on it is jellyfin which runs way better than plex... I have a drive to drive raid which leaves me with 24TB. of useful drive spare or so. 6 8TB Ironwolf nas drives. Just slow as heck and if Synology is better, i would like to know so i can switch...

[yveZ]

A review without turning it on for us to see and more importantly: hear? I mean you are explaining a lot of good stuff and background information is really interesting. I do feel at some points you talk a lot, but you're not really giving relevant for us information, like on performance. In my opinion you are really missing some critical points for this to be a good review.
What are the real life read/write/network transfer speeds?
You say you will test software run benchmarks, but I don't see any links and when searching your channel for this model, this is only thing popping up. So did you never get around to it?
You say it's meant to be a work horse. My experience is that Arom CPU's tend to falter quite quickly when you try to run VM's. Did you test if this "workhorse" can manage a couple of VM's?
Did you test the tiered pool (hot, warm, cold)? Did you notice (meassure) a noticeable difference in real life with this?

I was really excited when I started watching the review but at the end felt disappointed. You did not even turn it on for us to hear and see. You did not put any real life performance information in it. If you do a follow up, feel free to let me know as there is not much out there on this particular model (which may have added to my disappointment in this review).

I hope you don't take this badly, I'm trying to give constructive feedback/crticism, not trying to put you down. If I didn't care about your quality, I would have just clicked on to the next one :)

[TheTimeProphet]

I have an HP Proliant gen 8 server. Pretty good and didn't cost nearly as much.

[JanuszErkaZSW]

In Poland it is available and ready @ stock for 1666Eur.

[akmediaproductions]

Is it compactable with Dual-Port Thunderbolt 3 Expansion Card ? MFR #QXP-T32P

[ruek]

What I would appreciate to understand is if you fully max it out, put it on a 10Gbe switch, what speeds do you get at the end of the line? 4K video editing?

[mariuszslonka]

Can i use one drive and after few weeks add second one and create raid 1 without losing data from first drive?

[wolfman]

So similar to the QNAP TS-h973AX-8G @ £979 minus the 4 x U.2 NVMe SSD and replaced with 2 x 2, 5" sata drives. Get 4 x U.2 NVMe SSD caddies for M2 NVMe drives and get 2 more bays for £300 approx less? Processor AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 series V1500B 4-core/8-thread, 2.2 GHz processor with up to 64 GB DDR4 RAM ECC memory.

[mikeschinkel-newclarity]

Great, detailed review.

Love what you do on your channel!

P.S. BTW, not sure if it is different in the UK, but here in the States the term "kickback" generally means "a payment made to someone who has facilitated an illicit transaction." Probably not what you meant, though? 😁

[andresvaldevit]

What’s next, IBM 286 NASes? This is ridiculous

[chrishalle]

1399 dollar for an intel atom and 8 gigs of ram? Isnt that a little bit expensive? Because more hardware isnt included.

[jodajackson]

Nice review m8 and not a half bad NAS. Still, Atom, I’ll give it a miss. Also IIRC Asustor has a 10 bay NAS in this price range with dual NVMe and 2.5GbE (and Atom SoC). Push comes to shove I’d rather have that then this but Atom SOC’s just aren’t worth it to me.

[mtnshadid]

I tried to google what's the best practice or storage ratio for all the hardware and i couldn't find anything useful.
I'm looking to install 3x 10 TB HDD and 2 SSD with 2 M.2

What's the recommended m.2 and ssd storage i should attach to them ? @NASCompares

[MG-zonq]

Way too wordy really needs to be re-edited