Compare Qnap Desktop NAS 10GbE+TB2 TVS-1282T-i5-16G 12-Bay (8x 3.5", 4x 2.5") RAID (16GB RAM, Core i5) + 10GbE + Thunderbolt 2 AND Qnap 19"Rack NAS TS-877XU-RP-1200-4G 8-Bay, 2U RAID (4GB RAM, Ryzen 3 1200) + 10GbE; Redundant PSU

General Performance

The TVS-1282T-i5-16G same as the TS-877XU-RP-1200-4G 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 TVS-1282T-i5-16G to your needs. This model comes with new DDR4 technology random access memorty (RAM). DDR3 used to work at 800 MT/s (or Millions of Transfers per second) and some went as high as 2133. DDR4, starts at 2133 MHz. The increased speed means an overall increase in bandwidth. This unit also arrives with a One-touch Backup button on the front panel, when it is configured on the TVS-1282T-i5-16G, it can be used to backup data off of the USB device, or vice versa. Unlike the TS-877XU-RP-1200-4G this box has the NEW: Quad-core Intel i5-7500 3.4 GHz / OLD: i5-6500 processor. This box has i5 processor. Similarly like i7 it could likely have a "turbo boost" when needed. Another key difference between the TS-877XU-RP-1200-4G is RAM. TVS-1282T-i5-16G arrives with 16GB RAM. The TVS-1282T-i5-16G 16GB RAM compared with TS-877XU-RP-1200-4G 4GB is clearly weaker.

About Connections

At the back of the box you will find HDMI port which will let you connect it to TV or monitor. In this case you are not limited to network speeds. You might be interested in audio output ports. With TVS-1282T-i5-16G you can build a personal karaoke system with high-quality audio output. With six LAN ports this box is making good enterprise level NAS. There are two Thunderbolt ports on TVS-1282T-i5-16G. Thunderbolt2 performance allows amateur professionals, photographers, audio engineers, and video post-production engineers to unleash the power and performance of Qnap giving you speeds up to 20Gb/s. Five 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. 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 NEW: Quad-core Intel i5-7500 3.4 GHz / OLD: i5-6500 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 2 year warranty for your peace of mind and long term hardware security. This Qnap is £95.00 cheaper than the most expensive unit TS-877XU-RP-1200-4G.

General Performance

The TS-877XU-RP-1200-4G same as the TVS-1282T-i5-16G 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-877XU-RP-1200-4G to your needs. This model comes with new DDR4 technology random access memorty (RAM). DDR3 used to work at 800 MT/s (or Millions of Transfers per second) and some went as high as 2133. DDR4, starts at 2133 MHz. The increased speed means an overall increase in bandwidth. Unlike the TVS-1282T-i5-16G this box has the AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 4-core/4-thread 3.1 GHz processor, Turbo Core 3.4 GHz processor. Another key difference between the TVS-1282T-i5-16G is RAM. TS-877XU-RP-1200-4G arrives with 4GB RAM. The TS-877XU-RP-1200-4G 4GB RAM compared with TVS-1282T-i5-16G 16GB is clearly weaker.

About Connections

At the back of the box you will find HDMI port which will let you connect it to TV or monitor. In this case you are not limited to network speeds. With four LAN ports this box is making good enterprise level NAS. Six 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.

Price And Warranty

This box comes with 3 year warranty for your peace of mind and long term hardware security. Despite TVS-1282T-i5-16G has better warranty, it is still good to know that you have your three years of no worries manufacturer cover. This is the most expensive box with the price tag £2,305.00.