How to set up a Qnap Nas – Qnap First Time Installation

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1 Qnap First Time Installation
2 QNAP First Time Setup Guide
3 QNAP NAS Guide Part 1 – Setup, RAID, Volumes IP and Shared Folders
4 QNAP NAS Guide Part 2 – Users, Groups and Installing Applications
5 QNAP NAS Guide Part 3 – Best Media Apps for DLNA, Internet Streaming and Watching Movies
6 QNAP NAS Guide Part 4 – USB Backups to and from the NAS
7 QNAP NAS Guide Part 5 – Surveillance and NVR Setup
8 QNAP NAS Guide Part 6 – Setting up Plex Media Server
9 QNAP NAS Guide Part 7 – Downloading Torrents, Podcasts, NZB and more
10 QNAP NAS Guide Part 8 – How to Syncronize with Google Drive, DropBox and more
11 QNAP NAS Guide Part 9 The Best HDMI Setup and Apps to Install
11.1 Upgrading your Qnap NAS.

Qnap First Time Installation

 

 

 

 

 

To locate the NAS, you can: a) Install the Qfinder Pro utility, b) Scan the QR code, or c) Go to the
myQNAPcloud website and manually enter the Cloud Key

 

 

 

Log into the admin account using your specified password or use the default password (admin)

 

Here is the hardware installation guide:https://eu1.qnap.com/Storage/QIG/TVS-1282T3_QIG_%28EN%29_51000-024248-RS_web.pdf

And operating system configuration guide: https://nascompares.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/QTS4.4.1-UG-en.pdf

Here is how to setup the software side of things:

QNAP First Time Setup Guide

 

 

QNAP NAS Guide Part 1 – Setup, RAID, Volumes IP and Shared Folders

 

QNAP NAS Guide Part 2 – Users, Groups and Installing Applications

QNAP NAS Guide Part 3 – Best Media Apps for DLNA, Internet Streaming and Watching Movies

QNAP NAS Guide Part 4 – USB Backups to and from the NAS

QNAP NAS Guide Part 5 – Surveillance and NVR Setup

QNAP NAS Guide Part 6 – Setting up Plex Media Server

 

QNAP NAS Guide Part 7 – Downloading Torrents, Podcasts, NZB and more

 

QNAP NAS Guide Part 8 – How to Syncronize with Google Drive, DropBox and more

QNAP NAS Guide Part 9 The Best HDMI Setup and Apps to Install

Upgrading your Qnap NAS.

Once you have set everything up, you might be considering upgrading your NAS to make it faster. Things you can do is RAM upgrade, Cache upgrade and SSD upgrade. These are the things which can make your NAS faster.

Recommended NVMe Cache SSD are Samsung Evo 960 and Evo 970

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82 thoughts on “How to set up a Qnap Nas – Qnap First Time Installation”

  1. I’m looking to purchase this soon. Can I just pop in the hard drives I’m using with my PC that all contain data? Would I just skip the format part during the software setup? Also is this unit ready meaning no additional hardware is needed such as a primary SSD that might need to be installed before setup?
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  4. Im not seeing how to map a network drive to C:/Users folder. I need the “user” accounts to live on the NAS so no matter which PC you login to your Documents/Downloads/etc are all there, for each windows user. I can’t seem to get this to work.
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  11. After installing a new Larger 7200rpm Ironwolf Nas HDD with fresh OS and data restore on my old qnap nas, I have an error with the Video Station App. I’m logged in as admin but clicking on the app comes up with a Forbidden message. DLNA is on and library/thumbnails completed for the media folders. Any idea what to do. Nas has latest v4.3.3 QTS and is a TS-221. QuMagie and Plex not compatible with this NAS.
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  14. Bought a Qnap that happened to be preconfigured with two Seagate Seahawk drives for surveillance. I do not need to use them for that but would like to use them for regular media storage, Plex stuff. How can ai configure them for that?
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  15. On Buffalo NAS it has a direct URL for its NAS torrent app.
    What’s the direct URL for the Download Station app without having to go into QNAP App Center first to open it ?
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  17. Also found that the QFINDER will not proceed past the third set up screen in version 5.1.4256 – have a called logged with QNAP support but this thing is taking days to set up … what a pain
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  20. 3:08 I’d prefer leaving my QNAP as DHCP and set a reservation of MAC address in router. You can do it either way, but I prefer doing it in router, as its more central, otherwise you’ve got to go into your devices to manually set.

    If you create a reservation list in your router then the job is done.. No ned to muck around and think “Do I need static on x device or not” but I guess your way gives you more flexibility. if you have many devices

    6:19 btw: QTS5.x bombards you with popups the unless you clock “don’t pester me”. :P. I know manufactures wanna get your attention, but this is not the way to do it

    No wonder people like using popup blockers …. There should be one for your local network too
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  23. Goodnight. Very good explanation. I have a doubt. If you have 2 disks in RAID 1 and put a 3rd disk. Can I move to RID 5 without losing data or do I have to set everything up again. Thanks.
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  24. Great Video, However I am stuck, i followed your video up to the point of Mapping Drives, Im using Qnap TS 264 on my LAN, with Windows 11 on PC and when i click network drives on Qnap Finder all it wants to do is is Mount my TS264 rather then search file explorer ?
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  26. This is one of those products you need but which I hate at the same time – it’s engineer masturbation and not made for quick and smart setup. It is made unnecessarily complicated. Plz clean up
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  27. Hi, i am using plex but it often (once a day) requied restart of the NAS (otherwise the TV would not see the movies), but recently Plex stopped working completely and returns “This site can’t be reached “IP ADDRESS” refused to connect.” I am unable to access the movies through PLEX at all. Pls help.
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  29. when we specify users on folders can this apply also to native windows access, like when people browse folder through their windows file explorer?
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  32. I am giving my first steps installing and configuring a QNAP NAS and have seen many videos from you here on Youtube. I am from Brazil and (unfortunatelly) english is no my native language. I think you would get much more viewers for your channel if you talk a little bit slower, for us (not english native speakers) to understand. Thank you!
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  34. OMG “Yes”, I thought,” get a NAS, you have always wanted one!” So I got a NAS, little did I know the learning curve involved. WOW!!! A curve that has been flattened a lot by my new bestest friend Robbie here. Thank you Sir.
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  36. Can’t be stressed enough how important mapped network drives are. Just set up TS-464 and in the process of transferring data from an old Netgear ReadyNAS 1100. Using browsers and FileStation 5 is limited, with transfers stopping due to file size. Using mapped drives, that is, transferring directly from folder to folder has dramatically reduced my stress levels. Thanks for your videos!
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  37. Thanks for the vid, I have a newer model, and when i went through the same steps it broke off a 3.3TB piece for snapshots, and as far as I can tell i did not select that, i was told that was done. You know any way to reverse that? Just delete the array and start over? Not sure how to do that either, im still doing the initial setup as mentioned in your video.
    Thanks
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  38. Great video. thank you so much. I do have two questions.
    at 13:03 why did you skip the explanation between thin, thick and static?
    as per creating a volume, do I have to wait for the sync to complete before I create the static volume?
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  40. Can you run the qnap as a usb drive when needed? I want the NAS capabilities as secondary to simply a large fast direct attached storage. I can’t find this answer anywhere!
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  42. If you add photos to the file folder, do you need to copy them to the photo app also in order to access them? Also if need to pull a photo for video editing, can you pull it from the same place?
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  43. A coworker gave me an old NAS of his so can’t really follow along with the tutorial but do I need the login he created to reset the NAS completely and build my own?
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  45. Very helpful, definitely a thumbs up! I have a question that you or anyone else might be able to answer. I have been using a two-bay model (TS-259) for quite some years now. I have it configured for RAID 1 with two 2TB drives. Last night, the power connection in the back of the enclosure melted for whatever reason and the unit is dead. Luckily, a friend had an unused TS-253 so I just popped out one of the drives, plugged it into the 253 and within minutes, was back up in a pinch. Was thinking of getting a new TS-231 or TS-233 to replace it. However, I only really use three folders out of a dozen or so on a daily basis. Those three folders combine for maybe 200GB in storage and the rest are long-term storage that I infrequently access. Would there be any benefit to having one 500GB SSD and one 2TB drive, with the SSD having the three folders I always use, and the HDD holding my longer term storage, plus a full backup (maybe daily overrides) of the SSD?
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  47. This is my first NAS set up. I chose this enclosure because I was able to get a decent amount of “bang for my buck”. I am following the tutorial but I have a couple of questions. First, when setting the Nas name and user account name AND PW is it supposed to take a while and hang while doing that or is it supposed to just process straight through that portion quickly? Additionally, since I will be using it with 2 laptops do I have to set up separate user names on each laptop even though I will be the only one using both laptops and accessing the NAS?
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  49. Hi i just bought my self a QNAP ts-x453d and I guess I did something wrong because I’m getting about 150ea error message a day for whatever reason in 3 of my email. How do I stop it or reduce it to only 1 or 2 email message
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  50. About the Cross-platform file transfer services – If I am not sure which ones I ticked on the initial nas setup, how do I check now? Thanks
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  52. When I go to the IP Address it asks me to insert a drive and re-format it. How do I set up the machine without re-formating a drive?
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  54. I have Qnap 231P and tried to use Surveillance Station but something delete all the time my records files. I have low disk space left about 40GB free, but this should happen. my “record_nvr” folder all the time is gone after few minutes.
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  56. Hi, sorry for a very basic question. Is my understanding correct that your QNAP is connected via LAN to the same network as your Windows PC? The Qfinder is installed on that PC, so that it will help to detect the QNAP? Is my understanding correct?
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  61. As much as I appreciate this walk-thru…I despise everything about this product. There is nothing more intentionally difficult to setup than a NAS, and I’ve never wanted to throw a device off a bridge more than my QNAP NAS
    I’ve rebuilt car engines, and have been building computers since I was 8. QNAP is the worst thing I’ve ever experienced and I honestly don’t understand how someone hasn’t made a better version and completely destroyed this company

    Off. A. Bridge.
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  62. If we have to replace one of the drives do we have to do the entire initialization of the QNAP again? What happens after replacing a hard drive and also upgrading the RAM to larger?
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  63. Hi, great videos and thank you for doing this. We have a TS 669 and when dealing with the storage manager it did not give me the option of Raid 1 after I selected the six drives. Is raid 6 basically the same as a raid 1 and that is the reason?
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  65. Hi, ty for the great job you explain to us 🙂
    In my case i cannot use plex on my tv, his dlna is too old, she recognise nothing except mpeg2 🙁
    So the happy buy i made for regroup all my media and can dispatch everywhere is now dead, just need to resell all my buy and make a media pc for do the job on my tv :/
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  67. Hi, quick Q: If my QNAP NAS failed, how can I connect its drives to a Windows system? what tools do I need for Windows to recognise QTS volume? PLEASE advise, THANKS!
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  68. Hi, I followed your setup instructions but whenever I test the camera I get a message unable to connect, check the camera ip port and try again, QVR allocated port 8899 and RTSP port 554 by default any thoughts please?
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  72. I bought a 6 bay QNAP unit. The more I think about Raid and Pools, I don’t think I need a raid system or even a storage pool. 90% of the data that I want to backup is static, Photos, Video and Audio files. They won’t ever change again once they are written to archive disks. If I have 6 simple 18TB drives I can keep one drive empty and make a mirror copy, 5 in total, of each of my 5 archive drives and save them to to a local location and to an offsite location. If one of the drives goes bad, I can replace the bad drive with one of the backup drives and then back up the backup drive? It seems like raid is best for dynamic data that needs to span drives? I started with Reid 6 but realized it uses 50% of my total drive space. Any way you cut it if you want to back up your NAS you need another NAS or fixed drives.
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  73. Hi, love the video.
    Are you able to automatically send the camera to a preset when a schedule starts without needing motion detection? I wish to swap from Car Park to Balcony at separate times and as the camera will be pointing away from the required area each time motion detection won’t work?
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  74. Hi, we have TS 228 having 4TB seagte enterpris drive installed. Now we want to add one more Hard disk of 8 or 10 TB.
    Is it ok to add 8TB HD..? And is it possible to keep this additional disk as seperate drive and not to add or merge with existing one.? Please guide with the procedure.. Thanks.
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  77. funny, you told in a previous video that qnap was like bam!! 10 prompts in you face, but maann are you right!! just got my first, and h…s…… i didnt know what to do without you videos.. thanks alot!!!
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  81. Thank you so much!!! I was wondering why the drive backup option never showed up every time I plugged in my external HDD. It was an app this whole time!
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  82. Now in 2021, is there a reason to use PhotoStation and not QuMagie? I think QuMagie has many more functions.
    Or does QuMagie has some disadvantages?
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