Brand New QNAP Realtek TS-230 NAS in 2020
New releases in the world of network-attached storage (NAS) has been a little thin in the closing stages of 2019 compared with previous years. Whether it is the manufacturers switching focus from the hardware to the software, relying more and more on existing models to support their NAS operating system and GUI, or because 2019 has been a rather complicated year to track consumer trends and existing units in the field. Whatever the reason, news on new releases from the big NAS brands has been a lot later this year and with many users sitting on their money, waiting for something new and shiny to buy, it is only now in the 11th hour that we are seeing some new kit start to emerge. Step forward to new affordable 2-Bay NAS solution from QNAP, the TS-230 NAS Drive. Featuring a brand new chassis, popular efficient yet capable CPU and a few hardware factors that are very ‘QNAP, the newly announced TS-230 sounds like it will be the perfect budget NAS for those making their first steps into a home or small business server.
What are the Hardware Specifications of the QNAP TS-230 NAS?
The new TS-230 from QNAP looks set to serve as a follow up to the now almost 2 years old TS-228A. As NAS drives are similar in core architecture of regular PCs (CPU, Memory, Motherboard, ports, etc), it is easy to understand if the hardware specifications of the QNAP TS-230 below seem a little underwhelming. However, you need to look at them in terms of efficiency. A NAS Drive is designed to be on 24hours a day, 7 days a week, for months or years at a time. The result is that the hardware needed to be designed to go the distance. The CPU featured below is also no slouch, as it is part of the newer generation of Realtek 64bit architecture processors, originally applied into NAS devices only last year. The full specifications we know so far are:
- White Chassis, plastic in design, with a blue front stripe
- Realtek RTD1295 quad-core 1.4GHz processor, 64-bit ARM
- 2 GB DDR4 RAM, not expandable
- Top-Down Drive placement
- 5 Front Mounted LEDs, denoting System Access, Network Activity, Drive Activity and USB Access
- 2x SATA Bays, supporting upto 16TB Hard Drives and 4TB Commercial SSDs
- Front Mounted USB 3.0 (USB 3.1 Gen 1) 1-Touch Copy Button & Port
- Reported 18 db(A) Noise Level whilst in operation
- No Hot Swapping, as chassis is a closed casing
- New rear fan design bay
- 1x 1Gbe RJ45 LAN Port
- 1x USB 3.0 and 1x USB 2.0 Port
That Realtek RTD1296 is certainly a popular chip in the more affordable NAS ranges, supporting 4K transcoding, snapshots, container applications, multiple tiers of backup operations with full Hybrid Backup 3 support and can even support Plex Media Server in 2019 and 2020 (though transcoding will not be possible).
What are the Software Specifications of the QNAP TS-230 NAS?
First Party QNAP Applications for the TS-230
- QSync for Backing up multiple Devices to the NAS on a schedule/as needed
- Hyper Backup Sync 3
- QuMagie for photo collections and AI-enabled face/thing recognition
- Multimedia Console for managing media sharing, streaming, transcoding and indexing
- File Station for File Management, sharing and permission allocation
- Download Station for managing HTTP/FTP/NZB/BT downloads, as well as RSS feeds for podcasts and updates
- QFiling and QSirch to better organize files and remove duplicates/waste
- Cloud Drive for Migrating and Synchronizing between Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, etc
- Photo Station to organize and catalogue photo collections
- Music Station to organize, playback and stream music media to network/internet devices
- Video Station to playback media over the network/internet and transcode as needed upto 4K
- Container Station for management micro/compact virtual environments
- Surveillance Station for Surveillance/CCTV/NVR use with IP Cameras
- MANY more QNAP Apps
Third-Party Applications for the TS-230
- Plex Media Server(no transcoding natively)
- Emby
- iTunes Server
- Acronis True Image Backup
- Malware Remover
- SugarCRM
- TVMosaic
Desktop Client Applications from QNAP
- QSync for Mac and Windows
- Surveillance Station Client for PC/Mac
- QFinder Pro for Mac/PC
Mobile Applications for iOS and Android
- Qfile – File manager
- QPhoto – Photo Manager
- QVideo – Video Manager
- QMusic – Music Manager
- QRemote – Remote Control App over the Network
- QNotes – Central note-taking app, for collaboration between users
How much will the QNAP TS-230 NAS Cost?
Despite it’s remarkable similarity to the QNAP TS-228A, I think this newer TS-230 will arrive at a higher price point – due in no small part to that improved 4K and improved snapshots enabled processor, twice the memory and the new chassis. However, this is still going to be a NAS aimed at the Home and small business owner, so a price around the £180-200 price point (without your local TAX) is fairly likely.
When will the QNAP TS-230 NAS be Released?
Details on the QNAP TS-230 NAS are still so thin that as an estimation of a release date is just too thin on the ground. However, I think we will see this available for release at the start of Q1 (Jan-March) along with the start of a newer generation of QNAP NAS, featuring 2.5Gbe, 5Gbe, as well as more appearances of that popular Intel J4000 series CPU. Stay tuned here to NASCompares to learn about every new release from QNAP in 2020.
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I’ve found that you can backup to a remote QNAP NAS but not a remote Synology one. The backup uses RTRR which Synology doesn’t have. You can use rsync to Synology but that does not give you point in time recovery.
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Not impressed. HSB3 continually hangs while backing up to external hdd. Never had a successful backup yet.
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A lot of blather at the beginning. Presenter made a bunch of excuses for performance because he’s got the NAS performing a lot of other tasks at the same time. This is unprofessional presentation: he should have prepared the NAS so it was ready to record this presentation and not compromised by other activity irrelevant to the presentation.
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First of all, thank you for the amazing content that you are uploading. It’s been very helpful for beginners like me.
Here’s my situation,
We are a very small company. We recently purchased a small QNAP device and we have 4 PCs.
Our requirement is to keep everything on our PCs (we work and save our work on our PCs) and use QNAP as a backup.
Meaning, at the end of the day, we want everything to be backed up to the NAS.
Once it’s done backing up to NAS, we want a cloud backup which would be directly from the NAS.
What’s the best way to achieve this result? I found NetBak absolutely perfect, but the issue is, if I back up my files once, the next I delete one of my files from my pc and then backed up to NAS again, the deleted file would remain in NAS.
If syncing is the way to go, should I use one way? two way? or active?
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Still not intuitive.
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You have useful content! Just some constructive criticism, you go off on some tangents instead of staying focused on just providing the information. I feel most of your videos could be condensed as you tend to give your opinion on every option that nobody came to the video for.
Either or, keep up the good work!
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Video way too quiet
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Have been using this for sometime – which works fine – but ABSOLUTELY HATE the way Qnap displays the jobs. For a start, they dont have a sort order of any sort for the job display. Completely random, irritating and cross-eyed. These have a great ability to run one job after finishing another job – so I got my jobs all renamed with a number. But the sync display is all bonkus !! The list on my screen now shows, item 18, then 17, then 07, then 09, then 16 and so on… I have to hunt for item nbr 01 to run – and find it on the last page. Logically, they should atleast display data in alphabetical order of the job name ( or something ! ) and tell the user how it is done. Even better would be to give the user the option to sort and display as needed. Even the job-list screen has absolutely no order – and no user option to sort according to the various columns shown.
Talk about last page. Why oh why do they waste so much space in the job-list page. Do they get some sort of job making people click up and down looking for different pages ? 8 or 9 items in one page – really ? Imagine you had only 8 or 9 emails displayed at a time and had to constantly turn pages !! Cmon…
Another one – I’ve got my jobs running in an order – each one tagged to another such that – when one finishes, another one starts. There is absolutely no way to see which ones have been completed TODAY – because they get a green ‘success’ tag which remains indefinitely ( even if used a year ago ! ). Ideally, the user should be able to clear the status ( but leave the last completed date there ) before starting a series of backup/rsync jobs – so that he knows what is done today. I’ve got a series of other backups not tagged to run after another – and we should be able to easily identify these. Again, the option to sort these columns.. is basic to any UI .. why is no one waking up to these ??
I post these here – so perhaps you can pinch the guys and wake them up. I’ve tried writing to them ( months or years ago ).. and nothing… frustrating…
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Love your work, but this is just useless advice in the real world. Starting with two NAS devices in two locations and using your step by step instructions and your earlier setup guides, only ever results in failed connections. There is a LOT more involved in connecting two NAS devices. God knows what those steps are….
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You make everything look so easy, thanks for taking the time to make these they have been very helpful. in all honesty, I’m ready to Strangle Qnap Support
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Thanks for the vid. just wondering if HBS 3 should be part of the app or does it need to be downloaded and the installed manually? I’ve got one of the an “older” QNAP NAs running firmware 5.0.1. Cheers
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Hi! Can we use this program with QNAP TS-130 from network?
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It was a very useful video
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Does this do syncs FROM the cloud to the QNAP? My QNAP used to do that years ago but I’ve lost track of how it was done.
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@NASCompares Great info. Do you know how to enable “Extended Attributes” or workaround for External Backup?
Unlike “Local Jobs” there’s no option to enable this and been digging around the net without finding anything. I’m using HBS 3 as well by on olde QNAP TS-219p.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Thanks for the video. I want to use the QNAP NAS to backup few shared folders (800GB in total) from my windows 2016 server. I want to make a full backup every Friday and incremental (or differential) from Monday to Thursday. I am trying to figure this out but I stacked at https://youtu.be/c7KYkG_57TM?t=315 because the “Map external volume” is disabled. Is there a way to do this with HBS 3 and how?
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How to setup an aktiv fallback NAS if one unit fails? I mean seamless switching.
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i want easy explain for qnap family member everyone own account and easy fix own folder create and share folder….
i try and get tired.. always if i create fild or folder… that can every one see and acces… its bad… i need help
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Can I easy use myqnapcloud to backup from qnap ts230 to another ts230 not using ip adresses?
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Youtube is killing you content creators with excessive adds
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Couldn’t hear it.
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Great video. I have been having troubles with modifying a cloud backup job on the NAS and this will fix my headaches.
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ok, now how do i create a oneway sync that if i delete files accidentally from the computer, they wont be deleted from the nas at the same time?
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Awesome, that was really useful thank you. Just one thing which I am not quite sure of, can we use something like NOIP to link remote NASs if we are using an ISP like TalkTalk that refuses to let residential users have a static IP?
I know it’s absurd, but TalkTalk (UK ISP) are a bit behind the times with the ever increasing need for static IPs even for home users – stuck in a contract and want to be able to sync work and home NAS units – but with two dynamic IPs, I am guessing this is going to be difficult unless something like NOIP can be used.
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Love the videos. I might be doing something wrong here, I have set up sync on a shared file in my dropbox to my qnap, but when the files are deleted on the dropbox they also delete from my qnap. is there a way to stop that? and also which is the best way to backup an apple iphone besides usb? thanls for all the great advice
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