QN15344AR | QNAP Systems TS-451S Network Storage Device

High-performance 2.5”-drive NAS with on-the-fly & offline video transcoding for SOHO and home users

 

 

The TS-451S provides a high performance & high capacity storage solution for SOHO & home, workgroup, and SMB users. Powered by the advanced QTS operating system, the TS-451S performs as an easy-to-use yet powerful NAS for data backup, file synchronization, remote access, home entertainment, and is ideal for users to build a personal cloud to access their data easily.

 

 

 

Powered by a new 22nm 64-bit dual-core Intel Celeron 2.41GHz processor with 1GB energy-efficient DDR3L RAM (upgradable up to 8GB), coupled with the support of dual LAN ports and HDMI connectivity, the TS-451S is a powerful home NAS with supreme value and great performance to deliver up to 220MB/s read & write speeds. The TS-451S can also automatically increase the processor's clock rate from 2.41GHz to 2.58GHz when needed for CPU-intensive tasks. The TS-451Ss fast encryption and decryption performance provides transfer speeds of up to 68MB/s with AES-256 bit volume encryption, boosting system performance & security while ensuring the safety of sensitive personal data stored in the TS-451S.When installed with the latest dual-band 2.4GHz/5GHz 802.11ac Wi-Fi network card, the TS-451S can offer remarkably high speeds for transferring large amount of files and streaming bandwidth-consuming multimedia.

 

 

 

 

The aggregated throughput of simultaneous file transmission from 2 PCs to a Turbo NAS.

 

 

NAS:
OS: QTS 4.1.1
HDD: Seagate ST1000NM0033 1TB
Volume type: Encrypted volume with RAID 5
Network environment: direct connection between NAS and PC, 1Gbps LAN with MTU 1500

Client PCs:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz; DDR3 1600Hz 16GB; WD 1TB WD10EZEX; Intel Gigabit CT; MTU 1500; Windows 7 Professional 64bit SP1

 

 

Thanks to the intuitive user interface of QTS, system operations of the TS-451S are smooth and handy. Its intelligent desktop allows you to find desired functions quickly, create desktop shortcuts or group shortcuts, monitor important system information on a real-time basis, and open multiple application windows to run multiple tasks concurrently, bringing greater operating efficiency.

 

 

 

QNAPs myQNAPcloud provides an always-connected infrastructure for business and home users to build their private or personal cloud with ease. Through any web browser or the free mobile app the TS-451S becomes your personal cloud so you are always connected to your data. Take advantage of the myQNAPcloud service, which allows you to remotely access your TS-451S wherever you are. Instantly stream or share your multimedia contents and share them with your friends.

 

 

The TS-451S delivers superior real-time Full HD video transcoding to convert your videos to formats that can be smoothly played on PCs, mobile devices and Smart TVs. It allows for up to 5 devices to simultaneously view different videos stored on the TS-451S with on-the-fly hardware accelerated transcoding. The TS-451S allows you to enjoy instant videos on multiple devices - even those that lack computing power or have limited file format support - without the need for complicated and time-consuming file conversion.

 

With the benefit of offline transcoding, if you can only connect to an Internet connection with limited/restricted bandwidth, you can still enjoy smooth videos by selecting a pre-rendered lower resolution to play the videos via File Station, Video Station, or the Qfile app for iOS & Android without affecting the TS-451Ss performance running other applications. This also allows more people to play videos via streaming. The TS-451S also allows you to set a dedicated folder for automatic video transcoding.

 

 

 

 

You can use DLNA-compatible devices such as HDTVs, Smart TVs, Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Hi-Fi systems to enjoy HD quality videos and high-resolution audio content such as DSD (Direct Stream Digital) audio format stored on the TS-451S. You can also use the Qfile app on an iOS device to browse videos and photos stored on the TS-451S and play on the TV via Apple TV. By installing the QAirplay app, available on the QTS App Center, you can stream your media content directly on a TV via Apple TV. The media contents are streaming on Apple TV, bypassing your mobile device, thus saving the energy of your mobile device. The TS-451S's support for Plex Media Server organizes all of your media with rich information and transforms the TS-451S into a powerful & easy to use streaming machine with DLNA, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Google TV support.

 

 

QNAP HD Station integrates the powerful Kodi media player and web browser. With HDMI 1.4a connectivity, you can connect the TS-451S to a HDTV to enjoy your rich multimedia content on the big screen. The splendid user interface and support for 7.1 channel surround sound audio passthrough* bring smooth playback of Full HD videos providing a quality home theater experience. You can also turn your mobile devices into remote controls by installing the Qremote app or use QNAP RM-IR002 remote control and MCE remote controls via the built-in IR receiver of the TS-451S for convenient & easy control of the HD Station.

 

A receiver with HDMI support is required for decoding multi-channel surround sound.

The quality of video and music delivery can vary according to hardware and network environments.

 

 

 

QNAPs exclusive QvPC Technology consolidates a number of high-end technologies including VM integration, multimedia transcoding, HDMI output, cloud integration and NAS connection technologies, allowing users to operate the TS-451S as a PC when they plug in a keyboard, mouse and monitor. With QvPC Technology, the TS-451S is transformed into a cost-effective device with PC functionalities for users to directly access stored data, run multiple applications using Windows/Linux/UNIX/Android-based VMs, surf the web on Google Chrome, enjoy Full HD videos with up to 7.1 channel audio with Kodi, monitor Surveillance Station in real time with local display, and much more.

 

 

 

Introducing the worlds first consumer-grade NAS with integrated virtualization technology. The Virtualization Station transforms the TS-451S into a 2-in-a-box NAS that can function as an all-in-one NAS and a virtualization platform supporting multiple operating systems, fast virtual machine creation, virtual machine import/export, snapshot, and enables desktop operations on web browsers. With the easy-to-use interface, you can centrally manage all of the virtual machines created on the TS-451S with minimal effort. You can also download VMs on demand from online VM markets and import them to TS-451S without any complex procedure.

 

Note: The Virtualization Station requires at least 2GB RAM to operate. Multiple VMs can be installed, but only 1 VM can be run at a time.

 

 

 

 

The TS-451S supports SMB/CIFS, NFS, and AFP protocols for file sharing across Windows, Mac and Linux/UNIX. Data, logs and ISO image of CDs and DVDs can be centrally stored in the TS-451S and protected by an integrated antivirus solution.

 

 

QNAP NetBak Replicator supports real-time and scheduled data backup on Windows including Outlook email archiving. Apple Time Machine is also supported to provide Mac OS X users with a solution to effortlessly back up data to the TS-451S. The USB 3.0 port on the front panel of the TS-451S features a one-touch-copy function for you to instantly back up data on external drives to the TS-451S with just one click, or alternatively to back up data from the TS-451S to external drives. A wide range of third-party backup software such as Acronis True Image and Symantec Backup Exec are also supported.

 

 

 

 

The TS-451S offers various data recovery options. RTRR (Real-Time Remote Replication) supports real time and scheduled data backup to remote Turbo NAS or FTP servers and synchronizes files to remote folders from local folders with better backup efficiency and reduced backup time. The TS-451S also supports rsync protocol to back up data to remote servers on a scheduled basis. Data can also be backed up to and restored from a range of cloud storage services, including Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure, ElephantDrive, Dropbox and Google Cloud Storage.

 

 

The IT Management Station, powered by Mandriva Pulse, provides a flexible service for managing your home computers. By installing the IT Management Station on the TS-451S, you can easily manage multiple family computers with different operating systems, effortlessly handle backup & restore jobs to protect your precious data, and centrally install & update software on multiple computers with greater efficiency.

 

 

 

 

The TS-451S acts as your photo vault for you to back up your favorite photos. The Photo Station makes photo sharing simple, and you can designate your own access right controls. Simply upload your photos to the TS-451S to create & organize your photo albums through a web browser, and share with your family and friends through social networking sites such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest. Your mobile devices are useful too, with the Qfile mobile app in your iOS or Android devices you can instantly upload photos to the TS-451S.

 

 

The Music Station helps categorize your music collection, and displays album covers to easily organize your personal playlists. Through the music station web player, you can enjoy your music anytime, anywhere with a few clicks. Thousands of local and global online Internet radio programs are also built-into the Music Station for you to enjoy.

 

 

 

 

The TS-451S is a perfect download center for high speed BT, Magnet, PT (Private Trackers), eMule, FTP, and HTTP downloads. After the download tasks are set ready, you can turn off the computer, and the TS-451S will download as many HD videos as you want. With the QGet utility you can manage your download tasks on multiple Turbo NAS devices remotely on the local network or the Internet. You can also install HappyGet app to back up abundant online videos to your TS-451S.

 

 

With Qsync, your TS-451S is turned into a safe data center for file synchronization. Any file uploaded to the TS-451S will be made available for all linked devices, such as computers, laptops and mobile devices. Qsync is especially useful for frequent travelers in managing files and ensuring that different devices have the most up-to-date files. Qsync provides multiple ways for file synchronization and group file sharing, greatly enhancing the flexibility of team projects and collaboration.

 

 

 

The TS-451Ss Surveillance Station offers a professional surveillance solution with a user-friendly management interface, a wide range of over 2,700 compatible IP camera models, and expandable IP camera channel licenses. It supports real-time monitoring, video & audio recording and playback with a wide range of customizable settings. You can also install the Vmobile app on your iOS or Android devices to manage the monitoring of cameras anytime, anywhere, for total surveillance of your monitored environment.

 

 

Signage Station - Creatively present your animated content

 

With the Signage Station, its easy to create content for a wide range of materials such as personal animated resumes or life memory books. The Signage Station is a great tool to bring your resume to life with rich media content to creatively present your background and accomplishments. You can also create personal memory books to edit and record each life event. The iArtist Lite application, with intuitive editing tools, helps you to easily create these signs with drag & drop tools. Your creativity can now travel around the world with a few simple steps.

 

 

 

The Digital TV Station extends your multimedia experience to digital TV programs. Insert the DVB-T* USB TV tuner to the TS-451S, and then you can log on to the Digital TV Station web interface to watch or record digital TV shows. The over-the-air EPG (Electronic Program Guide) is available for scheduled recordings. Just set recording schedules, sit back, and enjoy the shows on your computer whenever it's convenient.

 

The Digital TV Station supports DVB-T reception for "Free to air" broadcast. DVB-T reception is not available in every country. Please check the following webpage to check if DVB-T is available in your region: https://www.dvb.org/about_dvb/dvb_worldwide/

 

 

 

The TS-451S is your private cloud storage that virtually enlarges the capacity of your smart mobile devices. Qfile allows you to access, upload, download, manage, and share stored files easily as if you are carrying tons of files in your pocket. If Qfile is installed on an iOS device, users can also browse videos & photos stored on the TS-451S and play on a TV via Apple TV. Qmanager lets you monitor & manage the TS-451S remotely and efficiently without turning on a PC, while Qmusic allows you to listen to your music collections on the TS-451S anytime and anywhere, and download to enjoy offline

 

 

A private space for work & sharing

 

Notes Station

 

The Notes Station provides a private & secure way to share and collaborate on digital notes. With just a few steps its easy to create notes from web pages (or by importing from the TS-451S), edit notes with the intuitive web-based editor, and even create to-do lists & calendar alerts.

 

 

 

The TS-451S has a built-in App Center that provides various install-on-demand apps developed by QNAP and third-party developers, including tools for backup/sync, business, content management, communications, download, entertainment, and much more. It is also a centralized location for managing & updating installed apps. In addition, QNAPs development platform embraces the open-source spirit to enable developers to create their own apps, adding potentially limitless potential for the TS-451S.

 

 

 

The TS-451S offers a high performance yet affordable storage solution to fulfill the needs of small/home offices in archiving rapidly growing data & large files. The TS-451S supports online capacity expansion by connecting a QNAP expansion enclosure. With the QNAP scale-up solution, the raw storage capacity can be expanded on demand, making the TS-451S an ideal file center with large storage capacity for personal video collections.

 

 

The TS-451S offers a high performance yet affordable storage solution to fulfill the needs of small/home offices in archiving rapidly growing data & large files. The TS-451S supports online capacity expansion by connecting a QNAP expansion enclosure. With the QNAP scale-up solution, the raw storage capacity can be expanded on demand, making the TS-451S an ideal file center with large storage capacity for personal video collections.

 

The maximum raw storage capacity available by connecting a QNAP expansion enclosure:

 

Turbo NAS Model	QNAP Expansion Enclosure	Max. No. of Expansion Enclosure	Total HDD No. (NAS + Enclosure)	Max. Raw Capacity (TB)#
TS-451S	UX-800P	1	12	52
	UX-500P	1	9	34

 

The maximum capacity is calculated by using 4 x 2.5" 1TB HDDs in TS-451S and 8 x 3.5" 6TB HDDs in UX-800P.

 

 

The TS-451S utilizes a 22nm CPU and DDR3L RAM which feature low voltage, low power consumption, maintaining high performance in system operations with the benefit of energy-saving. Other eco-friendly designs include S3 sleep mode, HDD standby, scheduled power on/off, hard disk standby mode, and Wake on LAN.

 

 

 

The TS-451S provides comprehensive system tools to increase management efficiency.

 

 

 

With the SMTP and SMS settings on the Turbo NAS, system administrators will get notifications via SMS or email if an error occurs.

 

 

 

A graphical interface is presented for easily monitoring CPU, memory, disk and network bandwidth usage, and the currently-running processes on the Turbo NAS.

 

 

 

A graphical interface is presented for easily monitoring CPU, memory, disk and network bandwidth usage, and the currently-running processes on the Turbo NAS.

 

 

 

The Turbo NAS supports HDD S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) which monitors the hard drive status, and sends out email notifications for administrators to take action. The HHD Health Scanning technology can also examine hard drive status and prevent possible data loss.

 

 

 

The Turbo NAS supports Syslog server that collects logs from various connected devices over the Internet and saves the data, enabling centralized log management with greater efficiency.

 

Additional features

 

The TS-451S supports various applications for home offices as an all-in-one Turbo NAS with cost-efficiency.

 

 

 

 

 

The TS-451S supports the Control4 system to manage your newly added media and syncs with the Control4 system. You can enjoy your movies and control your home with a single remote, allowing a simple & easy way to enjoy your digital lifestyle.

 

 

Home Automation