Product Comparison: QNAP TS-431P vs QNAP TS-431P2

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QNAP TS-431P 4-Bay NAS Solution

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General Specifications

Brand

QNAP

Model

TS-431P

TS-431P2

Origin

China

About the Product

The TS-431P is a powerful yet easy-to-use network storage center for backup, synchronization, remote access, and home entertainment with many feature-rich apps available, including Notes Station, QmailAgent, and Qcontactz.

The TS-431P2 features three USB 3.0 ports and dual Gigabit LAN ports, delivering outstanding multitasking performance for your backup, synchronization, and remote access needs on a secure private cloud.

Key Specs

Hard Drive Capacity

4 TB

Number Of Slots

4 -bay

Storage Drive Type

2.5”, 3.5”, SATA 3Gb/s, SATA 6Gb/s, SSD

Hard Drive Capacity
Number Of Slots

What customers say about "Key Specs"

QNAP TS-431P 4-Bay NAS Solution

I bought this and an 8TB drive to go in it. Good capacity.
Good NAS, does a solid job.
I love this NAS drive. Great slots and capacity at all.
I will never own a QNAP product again. Slots not working!
Without spare hard drives/capacity elsewhere it's virtually impossible.

QNAP TS-431P2 4-Bay NAS Solution

This model is powerful, very good and reasonable price. Great number of bays.
Fast and quiet. Much faster than my old WD My Cloud.
It worked very well for me, I keep learning its different functions and uses.
This is a great, high quality NAS. It does its job very well. I've had zero issues with it.
Very happy with this purchase. It was easy to install drives into and set up on my network. It’s fast and quiet with a simple interface.

Size & Weight

Color

White

Height

6.33 in.

6.65 in.

Width

6.29 in.

Depth

8.62 in.

Weight

6.61 lbs.

Features

CPU

Alpine AL-212

ARM Cortex-A15

RAM

1 GB

4 GB

RAID Support

RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, JBOD, Single

RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, Single, JBOD

Extras

Centralizes file storage, Full NAS encryption, Volume-based technology, Hardware acceleration, Fast Disaster Recovery, High Efficiency

IFTTT Agent, Floating Point Unit, Encryption Engine, Hot-swappable, SSD Cache Acceleration Support, Jumbo Frames support

Included Software

QmailAgent, Notes Station 3, Qcontactz, Qsync, Amazon Glacier, Amazon S3, Azure, Google Cloud Platform Live, Google Drive, OpenStack, WebDAV, Amazon Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Yandex Disk, App Center, Qfile, Qget, Qnotes, Vmobile

myQNAPcloud, Qsync, Hybrid Backup Sync, Qcontactz, Qsirch, Qfiling, iSCSI, Snapshot

What customers say about "Features"

QNAP TS-431P 4-Bay NAS Solution

This is a quiet NAS with a lot of features and capabilities.
There are lots of storage features, integration with cloud storage is excellent.
Replication between NAS boxes, even remote boxes is easy to setup.
I can access my NAS from anywhere, again that was so easy to set up. Thank you QNAP.
Not enough memory to handle backups.

QNAP TS-431P2 4-Bay NAS Solution

A great entry-level NAS, with a powerful CPU for the price.
The CPU is an ARM based quad core 1.4GHZ. It's got easily more than enough CPU and RAM performance for the Movie Streaming.
The suite of mobile apps, and the ease of access remotely is a dream come true. The UI is easy to use.
It was a easy to put together as the disks are hot-swappable.
Easy to install, has multiple options.

Interfaces

LAN Speed

1000 Mbps

Number of LAN

Number of USB

eSATA

HDMI

What customers say about "Interfaces"

QNAP TS-431P 4-Bay NAS Solution

It was just over 110MB/s, close enough to the theoretical maximum of Gigabit Ethernet.
The NAS was simple to initially setup and works well. Easy to connect.
It works as expected and performs well. LAN ports is great for connect.
Has USB ports. Easy to install and connect.
Would recommend this product. Good connectivity via USB.

QNAP TS-431P2 4-Bay NAS Solution

It has 1 USB 3.0 port and 2 USB 2.0 ports, with the USB 3.0 port in the front. Great number of USB ports.
A good number of USB ports and their location is great.
The transfer speeds of this unit are truly astounding. Great gigabit Ethernet connection.
Unfortunately there is no HDMI connector.
I was upset when I found out that there is no HDMI connector.

Warranty / Certifications

Manufacturer Warranty

2 year(s)

Certifications

CE, FCC

Other Information

Manufacturer

Link

Manual

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