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SOFTWARE - 8/10
HARDWARE - 8/10
PERFORMANCE - 8/10
PRICE - 8/10
VALUE - 8/10

8.0

PROS

👍🏻Best example of 3-Bay NAS series so far
👍🏻Quieter than I expected in use
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👍🏻Newest Gen Intel Celeron CPU available on NAS right now
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👍🏻2.5GbE Ready and has 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gb/s)
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👍🏻Good balance of HDD and SSD Storage Support
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👍🏻VERY compact deployment
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👍🏻4GB Memory by default and 16GB Max is good upgradability
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👍🏻Surprisingly small, fo so much storage (long-ish though)
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👍🏻QTS 5 has more 1st Party applications and services than any previous version

CONS

👎🏻The lack of 10GbE from the TS-332X is a shame (PCI Lane related)
👎🏻The NVMe SSD Bays are PCIe Gen 3 x2 (PCI Lane related)
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👎🏻HDMI 1.4b not HDMI 2.0/a

SOFTWARE - 8/10
HARDWARE - 8/10
PERFORMANCE - 8/10
PRICE - 7/10
VALUE - 7/10

7.6

PROS

👍🏻Good/Efficient CPU choice for the Scale/Tier
👍🏻8GB of DDR4 Memory
👍🏻2.5GbE (x2) Ports on Day 1
👍🏻Four USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gb/s) Ports!
👍🏻Includes VM, Surveillance (8 licenses and upto 32 Cams), Backup, Sync, Multimedia, SaaS sync/migration and office tools (some with added AI services)
👍🏻3-Year Warranty (Can be extended)
👍🏻VERY Compact, low-impact design
👍🏻Supports 1-2x Expansions
👍🏻20TB and 22TB Confirmed Compatibility

CONS

👎🏻Memory Cannot be Upgraded
👎🏻Supports SATA Media but no support of NVMe / U.2
👎🏻HDMI Output Is 1.4b, not 2.0

SOFTWARE - 9/10
HARDWARE - 10/10
PERFORMANCE - 10/10
PRICE - 7/10
VALUE - 8/10

8.8

PROS

👍🏻ZFS and EXT4 Support
👍🏻Pentium Gold Processor 4-Bay - NICE
👍🏻Graphics Card Support
👍🏻PCIe Gen 4 Lanes and a 4x16 Slot
👍🏻2.5GbE by default
👍🏻Massive Memory Support
👍🏻LCD Panel Always Useful
👍🏻USB 10G Ports
👍🏻m.2 NVMe SSD Slots for Caching OR Storage Pools
👍🏻Best Plex 4-Bay NAS in 2022/2023 by a good distance!

CONS

👎🏻Expensive!
👎🏻Still waiting for an I3 option
👎🏻Power Hungry and a pinch noisy in operation