Compare Qnap 19"Rack NAS R2 TS-EC880U-E3-4GE-R2 8-Bay, 2U, RAID 0/1/5/6; Redundant PSU (4GB ECC RAM, Xeon E3) + 10GbE AND Qnap 19"Rack NAS TS-863XU-4G 8-Bay, 2U RAID (4GB RAM, Quad Core AMD) +10GbE RJ45

General Performance

The TS-EC880U-E3-4GE-R2 same as the TS-863XU-4G is made by Qnap. By choosing Qnap people expect to see advanced configurations opportunities as well as innovative and more diverse business applications. You are able to customize the TS-EC880U-E3-4GE-R2 to your needs. Unlike the TS-863XU-4G this box has the Intel® Xeon® E3-1246 v3 Quad-core processor. This box has Xeon processor. These processors usually are used in solutions where you cannot afford even shortest downtime. They usually come with biggest cache size. If processor comes with ECC (Error detection and correction) technology, it prevents server ever to go offline. Useful for accounting or bidding systems with no place for error. Just like the TS-863XU-4G this box has 4GB RAM.

About Connections

With six LAN ports this box is making good enterprise level NAS. Four USB3 ports on this Qnap is offering you up to 5Gb/s transfer speeds of external devices. It is fast enough to get your files through fairly quickly with this speed and make backing up with an external drive or Apple Time Machine a quick and easy process. Sometimes when your business grows, you might consider getting a box with expansion capabilities. With this box you have all opportunities to do so. You might want to contact one of our tech guys to find out more.

About Usage

With 8 bay unit you are having additional advantages. You can choose from number of RAID solutions to set up. There could be RAID that saves your data even if one of the drives fail so you can still recover your data. This would be slightly more safe option to keep your data. Besides you can still access your documents or media files over your private network or even internet. You may install Plex Media Server on this box. Plex lets you easily create a feature rich and practical home media playback system. Some boxes offer real time transcoding functionality. That let you stream your media hustle free, based on your device speed or screen size. Please contact us to find transcoding compatibility list.

PLEX TRANSCODING

This NAS feature Intel® Xeon® E3-1246 v3 Quad-core processor which will let you transcode videos on the PLEX. This will allow you to watch videos remotely from anywhere you can connect to the internet. The i3 CPU will transcode all HD and Full HD videos including quite few 4K videos. The i5 and i7 will pretty much transcode any video you want. The difference will be the number of simultaneous streams. The i7 obviously can cope with more streams than i5.

Price And Warranty

This box comes with 3 year warranty for your peace of mind and long term hardware security. This is the most expensive box with the price tag £2,255.00.

General Performance

The TS-863XU-4G same as the TS-EC880U-E3-4GE-R2 is made by Qnap. By choosing Qnap people expect to see advanced configurations opportunities as well as innovative and more diverse business applications. You are able to customize the TS-863XU-4G to your needs. Unlike the TS-EC880U-E3-4GE-R2 this box has the AMD G-Series GX-420MC quad-core 2.0 GHz processor. Just like the TS-EC880U-E3-4GE-R2 this box has 4GB RAM.

About Connections

With five LAN ports this box is making good enterprise level NAS. Two USB3 ports on this Qnap is offering you up to 5Gb/s transfer speeds of external devices. It is fast enough to get your files through fairly quickly with this speed and make backing up with an external drive or Apple Time Machine a quick and easy process.

About Usage

With 8 bay unit you are having additional advantages. You can choose from number of RAID solutions to set up. There could be RAID that saves your data even if one of the drives fail so you can still recover your data. This would be slightly more safe option to keep your data. Besides you can still access your documents or media files over your private network or even internet.

Price And Warranty

This box comes with 3 year warranty for your peace of mind and long term hardware security. This Qnap is £1,238.00 cheaper than the most expensive unit TS-EC880U-E3-4GE-R2.