Understand QNAP HS-453DX noiseless 10GbE NAS with a picture.

Although people have a lot of concepts about NAS with the increase of storage demand, most people may still stay on bulky machines with 3.5-inch hard disks. At present, NAS has made great progress in configuration and design. Low noise fanless design or lighter 2.5-inch NAS are common models. This time, QNAP with fanless and low noise is launched. HS-453DX not only has no fan, but also is equipped with a high-speed 10GbE network at the network port, which makes your transmission in the local network faster.

▲ Fan-free design reduces noise, and there is a magnetic baffle, which can quickly replace the hard disk.

If you like to take pictures, you need NAS NAS, which is the abbreviation of noerk attached storage, and the direct translation is network storage equipment. In the past, when the amount of data was not so large, it was actually enough to back up photos and data with a computer. But now your sports camera and mobile phone are full of 4K movies and a lot of high-definition photos, and there is no safe place to back up and visit, which is really inconvenient. And now there are many choices of home NAS, not only many 2.5-inch mini NAS, but also good-looking or low-noise design, so that this device will not be too abrupt at home.

▲ Clean and concise appearance, flat design is also easy to place in the living room.

▲ Rich I/O interfaces, especially supporting 10GbE network.

▲ In addition to the 10GbE network, there is also an optional USB-C interface.

▲HS-453DX supports dual HDMI output with the highest resolution of 4K.

Low noise, no fan design, suitable for home use. The HS-453DX looks like a slim Blu-ray player. The top cover is a large area aluminum alloy panel, which not only increases the score of design, but also has the function of "heat dissipation". The heat dissipation of NAS fuselage does not depend on fans, but adopts fanless design. What about the internal processor and chipset? The answer is that the heat sink passively dissipates heat, and this large-area metal top cover is an extension of the heat sink, which realizes fanless heat dissipation through low-heat chips and large-area heat sinks.

Without a fan, the most direct effect is less noise. Most of the fans installed in this kind of small NAS are limited by volume, and the blades are small, so it is necessary to increase the speed to achieve a certain heat dissipation effect. Without the fan, there is naturally no noise when the fan runs, and there is an additional benefit, that is, "no cleaning". It doesn't take a few months to turn on the NAS cleaning fan, which saves a lot of trouble. Finally, there is a mini advantage, that is, there is no fan and less power consumption, which is a big supplement.

Because there is no fan noise and vibration, many people will use NAS as their Roon Server streaming media server. Compared with the box design of most streaming media Roon Server NAS, it reduces a lot of vibration and ensures that the sound quality will not be affected. HS-453DX is very suitable for home streaming media center in terms of appearance, function and noise resistance. Of course, in addition to music, streaming video is also a common usage, which can also make NAS have more applications other than backup.

▲HS-453DX has two 3.5-inch hard disks, which can be hot-swapped and replaced.

▲ Up to 3.5-inch hard disk can be installed, and 2.5-inch hard disk or SSD can also be installed.

▲ There is a 2.5-inch hard disk lock on the hard disk slot, which can also be used to install SSD or 2.5-inch hard disk.

▲ The metal cover is actually a huge radiator, which conducts heat through a large area of metal sheet through the heat energy emitted by the metal conductive chip when it works.

The expandable M.2 cache and the storage space of double disk slot mainly depend on two 3.5-inch hard disks which support quick disassembly. Of course, you can also switch to a faster SSD or a 2.5-inch hard drive. In addition, HS-453DX has two M.2280 slots for installing SSD for caching, and there are two slots in the system memory. At the factory, you can choose between 4GB and 8GB versions.

In addition, the processor is equipped with Intel Celeron J4 105 quad-core processor with dual HDMI output. There is no big problem as HTPC, and it can also support 4K audio and video streaming and instant file transfer. It is convenient to watch movies or review movies with sports cameras.

▲ Disassemble the metal baffle and you can see the expansion slot of the hardware. On the left is the M.2 slot, and on the right is the SO-DIMM memory slot.

▲ Up to 2 M.2 SSD can be installed for system cache.

▲HS-453 DX has two sets of SO-DIMM slots, with a default version of 4GB or 8GB.

▲ There is a heat dissipation medium on the processor, which will conduct heat energy to the metal upper cover.

High-speed 10GbE network port QNAP also gives the 10GbE network port on HS-453DX this time, which allows you to transmit data with high-speed wired network. Of course, the speed of running to 10GbE needs to be synchronized and optimized on the line and equipment side to run close to the theoretical speed. However, given the network port of 10GbE, at least we don't have to worry about the shortage of network transmission bandwidth, and we can also reduce the time of transmitting large files or give more bandwidth conditions in a multi-person environment.

▲ On the right is the 10GbE network port, and on the left is the 1GbE network.

Appearance and hardware characteristics NAS as a whole, HS-453DX has the characteristics of Computex D&; I design award and CES 20 19 innovation award, as well as the characteristics of no fan and low noise, are different from the stereotype given by traditional NAS. In addition, the reserved slots in 10GbE network, Intel Celeron J4 105, HDMI 2.0 dual output and dual M.2 mean that there are enough hardware specifications to cope with the new audio-visual environment that NAS is facing now. If you want to find a different home NAS in the near future, then the quiet and distinctive HS-453DX might as well consider taking a look.