QNAP TS-469L High-performance 4-bay NAS Server for Home & SOHO Review

Storage/NAS by stefan @ 2013-03-13

The TS-469L is another powerful NAS from QNAP aimed at home and small business users, equipped with a HDMI interface that can be connected to our Full-HD TV. Thanks to its HD Station function and it’s modules, we can transform the server into a fully-featured media center for browsing the web, playing media content with XBMC or even for navigating through the Turbo NAS OS interface, without the need of using a PC. As extra bundle, we can acquire separately the useful QNAP Media Center remote or extra RAM for a total of 3GB.

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Product Features

Multimedia Station: Home Entertainment Center for Sharing Photos, Music, Movies and Videos

 

An easy-to-use storage center for new digital home experience

 

Introducing the QNAP TS-469L NAS server for home use, an easy to use networked storage center for the ultimate digital home entertainment experience. QNAP Turbo NAS servers are a new approach for sharing digital photos, music, and movies/videos, and keeping home computers backed up. You can easily view photos, listen to music, and even watch Full HD 1080p movies on a widescreen TV or projector streamed from the NAS over the network through PS3, Xbox 360, or other network media players. You can share multimedia content with family and friends wherever they are on the Internet by web browsers. iPhone/iPod touch/iPad and Android users can browse shared photos or listen to their music collections anywhere with 3G or Wi-Fi connection by streaming the content directly to the device – no sync required. QNAP NAS brings to life the ultimate in digital home theater enjoyment.

 

View precious photos with slideshows and even background music

Listen to your favorite music using customized playlists

Enjoy HD movies or family videos on TV when streamed through various network players

Anytime, anywhere access to your digital media over the Internet by web browsers or iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, or Android mobile devices

 

Home Theater with HD Station

 

Skip buying a media player! The TS-469L series is a full fledge media player capable of cinema-grade home entertainment.

 

Home Theater and Storage in One

 

The XBMC home center comes packaged with our NAS. Now instead of having a cluttered media setup, directly use the QNAP NAS as your home theater server. Directly connect the NAS to your TV through a HDMI cable and an amazing home multimedia center will show up. Paired with our Qremote app turns your iPhone or Android devices into a remote to play your music, videos, and photos to your TV.

 

Ultra-Fast Performance

 

When it comes to file sharing, backing up, and streaming, fast network speed is essential. The TS-469L series is powered by the Intel Atom 2.13 GHz processor and 1 GB DDR3 memory to provide fast and stable performance.

 

Home Photo Center

 

Back up and share your digital photos

 

The QNAP NAS is an ideal device for photo backup, archiving, and sharing. Simply upload your photos to the NAS, you can create and organize beautiful albums by a web browser and share with your family and friends. You can view the entire albums through UPnP-compatible players. Browsing your pictures on widescreen TV with your family has never been easier!

 

 

Home Music Center

 

Build your home music library and enjoy it anywhere

 

You can use the QNAP NAS as a music server to easily store music files and share them to your PC or various media players.

 

Enjoy your stored music on your PC

 

You can listen to your favorite MP3 songs streamed from iTunes Server, or play music by web browsers on your PC.

Play your music on Logitech Squeezebox players. With SBS (Squeezebox Server) QPKG plugin, you can efficiently manage and play them with Logitech music players without even turning on the PC.


Experience high-quality music directly on Hi-Fi system

 

Stream music to your UPnP Hi-Fi system and indulge in high-quality sound experience.

Listen to your music on iPhone/iPod touch/iPad and Android devices anywhere you have a 3G or Wi-Fi connection. Put tons of music right in your pocket! You can play the music files via QMobile app on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices remotely without taking up the storage space of the handheld devices.

 

Home Movie/Video Center

 

QNAP home Turbo NAS with large storage capacity and high performance for your home theater

 

The QNAP NAS is an ideal video storage center for you to store numerous home videos, movies, and ripped Blu-ray or DVDs. Not only that, you can enjoy Full HD movies on your TV streamed from the NAS through PS3, Xbox 360, and other network media players.

 

The NAS features high-speed data transfer, fast enough to support multiple 1080p HD streams. The whisper-quiet design brings you the best cinema-grade home theater experience right in your living room.

 

Centralize and Protect your Data

 

Apple Time Machine Backup

 

Time Machine is fully supported to help our Mac OS X users create a more efficient and convenient backup solution. Our NAS works wirelessly with Time Machine so you no longer need an external drive.

 

More Backup Options!

 

Our NAS is packed with backup features. From installing our license-free Netback Replicator software to as many Window PCs to execute data backup scheduled or in real time. Setting up a disaster recovery solution with our Real Time Remote Replication feature. To back up your data to online cloud storage services, such as Amazon S3 and Symform, the Turbo NAS has it all.

 

Freely Access your Data Anywhere

 

Easily share your files with multiple users on various devices. Drag and drop files from the NAS directly to your desktop or vice versa. You can even remotely access your data on the go! Your NAS is your personal cloud and file server so you always stay connected to your data.


Your 24/7 download center

 

The QNAP NAS is a perfect download center for high speed BT, eMule, FTP, HTTP download. You can use the Download Station with the QGet utility to manage your download tasks remotely on the local network or the Internet. The NAS also supports continuous NZB download, and eMule download by installed QPKG without turning on a PC.

 

 

Mobile Apps

 

Imagine having your entire media collection at the palm of your hands. QNAP’s free mobile applications for iPhone, Androids, and iPad allows you to easily connect to your NAS and manage your files.

 

Different apps to help you with your files.

 

All of our apps are located in Google Play or Apple App store and are completely free. From streaming music, accessing your files, enjoying your photos, managing your system, access surveillance footage, and more we have an app that can help you with your files. We even support third party apps for our NAS such as OPlayer and BSPlayer to stream your media files.

 

All-in-one NAS Server for Home and SOHO

 

The NAS brings you extra with all-in-one home server features, e.g. iTunes server, UPnP media server, backup server, printer server, FTP server, Web server, database server, and etc.

 

Data Security

 

User Access Controls

 

All your digital files stored easily managed to share with different groups of family members and friends. By using our web-based user accounts and groups creation, shared folder access right control can be created so that specific folders can be hidden or users access denied.

 

IP-based Blocking

 

A comprehensive list granting proper access from different users based on IP address can be establish to deny or authorize access to the Turbo NAS. Once an IP address has been denied, the user will not be able to connect to the server regardless of the connection ports it uses.

 

Anti-virus

 

Our NAS has a built in anti-virus to detect against the latest viruses, malware, worms, and Trojan horses. This anti-virus is free and virus database updates are always free too.

 

Data Encryption

 

Our encryption is FIPS-140-2 certified. This mean that its certified to be used in highly secure field such as the banking and government industry. With encryption on, your data will always be secure and unrecognizable by unauthorized users.

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Comment from jmke @ 2013/03/13
excellent review and also very interesting product. It can almost replace a dedicated server with all the extra functionality (itunes server, rsync, external backup, time machine,...)
especially interested in the XBMC plugin, how well does it work?

Did you try to play some notoriously difficult high Mbps samples?
http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/

the first one in the list is a killer

Birds mkv 1080p h264 high profile 4.1 40mbps none none Direct bluray (or hddvd) remux
(comes from BBC Planet Earth HDDVD/Bluray series)
Comment from Stefan Mileschin @ 2013/03/13
Quote:
Originally Posted by jmke View Post
excellent review and also very interesting product. It can almost replace a dedicated server with all the extra functionality (itunes server, rsync, external backup, time machine,...)
especially interested in the XBMC plugin, how well does it work?

Did you try to play some notoriously difficult high Mbps samples?
http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/

the first one in the list is a killer

Birds mkv 1080p h264 high profile 4.1 40mbps none none Direct bluray (or hddvd) remux
(comes from BBC Planet Earth HDDVD/Bluray series)
Hi John,

I have tried some HD movies, but also some 1080P rips and they worked without a flaw. Haven't tried though very high bitrate movies so far
Comment from Stefan Mileschin @ 2013/03/13
Update:

Ran Birds -> no issues
Ran hddvd -> no issues
Ran Monsters -> no issues

Comment from jmke @ 2013/03/14
excellent news that!
that XBMC $99 Ouya console at this stage seems to have issues with certain codecs: http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f...onsole-103422/
Comment from Stefan Mileschin @ 2013/03/14
Quote:
Originally Posted by jmke View Post
excellent news that!
that XBMC $99 Ouya console at this stage seems to have issues with certain codecs: http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f...onsole-103422/
Indeed, the Ouya seems to have very high GPU/CPU usage even in the dashboard screen of the XBMC, which usually means that the hardware is not that powerful (had the same experience with the Android mini-computers that I have tested in the past).
Comment from jmke @ 2013/03/14
in the menu's high CPU usage doesn't mean video playback will be bad, as soon as the video started, it can talk to dedicated acceleration hardware and CPU usage will drop. Check in the youtube the 1080p MKV H264 sample, it plays fluently http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...4j9hfLE#t=375s , I hope XBMC can tweak the android edition to make the Ouya a valid alternative for a complete HTPC.

if they fail, this QNAP certainly seems to be more than capable of the job
Comment from Stefan Mileschin @ 2013/03/14
Quote:
Originally Posted by jmke View Post
in the menu's high CPU usage doesn't mean video playback will be bad, as soon as the video started, it can talk to dedicated acceleration hardware and CPU usage will drop. Check in the youtube the 1080p MKV H264 sample, it plays fluently http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...4j9hfLE#t=375s , I hope XBMC can tweak the android edition to make the Ouya a valid alternative for a complete HTPC.

if they fail, this QNAP certainly seems to be more than capable of the job
Software support must be indeed offered, otherwise Ouya could not handle HD video at all without the GPU kicking in. I had the same experience with the two Android systems, and when running video it was like playing a slideshow (when the video ran, the GUI was also sluggish and it was also difficult to exit playback). Considering how fast Chinese HDMI sticks with ARM evolve (and their mini-PC form factors), it will be hard for Ouya to keep-up hardware-wise. These mini-PCs are in the $70-75 dollar range, so about the same as Quya without the controllers.

 

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