QNAP TS-453BT3 4-Bay NAS Enclosure

Description

Designed for media studios or small creative workgroups looking to simplify their workflows, the TS-453BT3 4-Bay NAS Enclosure from QNAP features dual 40 Gb/s Thunderbolt 3 ports, M.2 SSD caching, and 10GbE network connectivity. It is well-suited for professional collaborative media editing and high-speed file sharing and has been upgraded to include an OLED panel with two capacitive touch buttons.

The TS-453BT3 is powered by a 1.5 GHz Intel Celeron J3455 Quad-Core processor and 8GB of DDR3L RAM in a 2 x 4GB configuration. Network connectivity is achieved using the one 10GbE port and two Gigabit Ethernet ports that help accelerate virtualization applications and file sharing across devices. Or, use one of the Thunderbolt 3 ports on your Mac to get direct 10GbE access using the Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet (T2E) convertor. This NAS also supports a variety of RAID modes, including RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, Hot Spare, and Global Hot Spare, each of which offers data redundancy, speed, or a combination of both.

This 4-bay enclosure has the ability to natively house both 3.5" and 2.5" SATA III 6 Gb/s hard drives, as well as 2.5" SATA III 6 Gb/s SSD drives. When using the one 10GbE port, it can achieve download speeds of up to 683 MB/s and upload speeds of up to 543 MB/s. With AES 256-bit volume encryption, download speeds max out at 690 MB/s and upload speeds are delivered up to 520 MB/s. Using the Thunderbolt 3 interface, downloads reach as high as 514 MB/s and uploads max out at 356 MB/s.

Using the external two 40 Gb/s Thunderbolt 3 ports, five 5 Gb/s USB 3.0 Type-A ports, and one HDMI 1.4b port, this QNAP NAS can be connected to other QNAP devices, as well as other external drives and displays at resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 @ 30 Hz. Additionally, the TS-453BT3 is validated with FIPS 140-2 AES 256-bit encryption, helping to prevent sensitive business data from unauthorised access and breaches. The TS-453BT3 4-Bay NAS Enclosure operates using a 120W power supply that runs on 100-240 VAC @ 50/60 Hz. It includes two Ethernet cables, a power cord, 12 flat head screws for 2.5" drives, and an IR remote control. Protection is provided by a limited 2-year warranty.

Key Features:

Thunderbolt 3 & 10GbE Connectivity

Powered by an 1.5 GHz Intel Celeron J3455 Quad-Core processor (burst up to 2.3 GHz), with 8GB of DDR3L RAM, one 10GbE port, dual Gigabit LAN ports, and SATA III 6Gb/s drives, the TS-453BT3 delivers up to 683 MB/s read/write speeds and up to 690 MB/s with AES-NI encryption, delivering high performance while also maintaining the security of your data. The Thunderbolt 3 port runs up to 514 MB/s, allowing for quick file access. You can also connect USB Type-C devices through the Thunderbolt 3 ports to transfer large media files across devices, bringing you a more efficient workflow.

Collaboration Station for Mac and Windows

The TS-453BT3 is a good match for Mac users with Thunderbolt 3 and can also be used with Thunderbolt 2 by using a suitable adapter. The increased bandwidth of Thunderbolt 3 enables smooth video editing and faster file sharing for photographers, video editors, and graphic designers. Up to two Thunderbolt devices can be connected to the TS-453BT3 to process real-time photo and audio editing simultaneously without impacting system performance. As Final Cut Pro X 10.3 supports file sharing via SMB, Windows users and other devices utilising Thunderbolt™ 3, 10GbE, or 1GbE connections can join the editing workflow more efficiently.

Direct Access to 10GbE Networks from Your Mac

The Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet convertor (T2E) allows your Mac devices to access 10GbE networks via the TS-453BT3, providing flexible, convenient, and efficient data transfers without needing to buy extra adapters or convertors.

SSD Caching and 10GbE Connectivity

The pre-installed dual-port M.2 SATA SSD/10GBASE-T expansion card enables caching or Qtier auto-tiering technology to improve NAS performance without occupying disk bays of the NAS. The 10GBASE-T port ensures that the TS-453BT3 meets 10GbE infrastructure requirements and can efficiently manage data transfers requiring high-bandwidth.

Design

The TS-453BT3 features a sliding cover design with toolless 3.5" hard drive installation, making it easier for you to set up and maintain. The OLED front panel displays system information (including CPU temperatures, fan speed, and storage capacities of hard drives, volumes, and LUN), allowing you to quickly view overall system status. Dust-proof capacitive touch buttons allow you to easily wake up the screen, change network IP settings, and host passwords or even restart and shut down the system.

Backup Solutions for Peace of Mind

QNAP provides reliable and flexible backup and disaster recovery solutions to help businesses and organisations perform daily data backup tasks for computers, VM, and other devices in an efficient way.

Windows and Mac Backup Use the free QNAP NetBak Replicator to backup/restore data on a Windows computer. For Mac devices, backup tasks can be performed with Time Machine support.

Hybrid Backup Sync With integrated data backup, restore, and synchronisation (using RTRR, rsync, FTP, CIFS/SMB protocols), Hybrid Backup Sync helps you easily backup or synchronise data on the TS-453BT3 to other QNAP NAS, remote servers, or cloud storage.

Snapshots for Volume/LUN Snapshots help protect your data and block-level snapshots provide even faster backup and restoration, helping to mitigate the effects of malware or a ransomware attack. The TS-453BT3 supports up to 256 snapshots for both volume and LUN, and up to 10024 snapshots per volume and LUN.

Backup for Virtual Machines The TS-453BT3 provides high potential storage capacity. With its high performance and integrated virtualization applications, support for popular third-party virtualization solutions, and snapshots to record complete system VM status, the TS-453BT3 provides an good solution for backing up VMs.

QTS 4.3 Operating System

With multiple applications and functions, QTS enhances management efficiency, personal productivity, multimedia, and much more. The user-friendly QTS features an intelligent desktop that allows you to find desired functions quickly, monitor important system information on a real-time basis, open multiple application windows to run multiple tasks concurrently with greater working efficiency, and provides a built-in App Centre with instal-on-demand apps to extend NAS functionality. Empowered by intelligent agent services that simplify system operations and management, QTS breaks down barriers of devices, platforms, and geography to provide you with a solid cloud experience.

File Sharing and Synchronisation

The TS-453BT3 supports SMB, NFS, and AFP, allowing you to quickly share files to Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX devices. With QNAP's Qsync app, the TS-453BT3 becomes a safe data centre for file synchronisation with huge storage potential. Any file uploaded to TS-453BT3 can be synchronised to linked devices such as computers, laptops, and mobile devices. You can also sync shared folders to increase the flexibility of collaboration and file sharing.

Directly View Multimedia

By connecting the TS-453BT3 to an HDTV or AV receiver via the HDMI output, you can directly view multimedia content saved on TS-453BT3 on a bigger screen. You can download and instal versatile multimedia apps from Ubuntu Software Centre through QNAP Linux Station. QNAP's HD Station also allows users to directly enjoy multimedia using HD Player or third-party players such as Plex Home Theatre.

Qsirch Finds What You Need

Qsirch is QNAP's full-text search engine that can quickly find desired files on your NAS. Qsirch can search through over 6000 file formats and can use over 30 search conditions. Recommended or similar files are also displayed in the search preview page based on set keywords and conditions. Professional photographers can even search files through the camera's lens type, shortening time in finding files and can spend more time concentrating on editing.

Real-Time Transcoding for a Cross-Device Media Experience

Featuring advanced 9th Generation Intel HD Graphics, the TS-453BT3 supports dual-channel 4K H.264/H.265 hardware decoding and real-time transcoding, allowing you to convert videos to universal file formats that can be played on multiple devices.

IR Remote Control

The TS-453BT3 provides a free Remote Control (RM-IR004). You can customise the actions of individual buttons of your QNAP remote control using QButton, such as viewing a preset surveillance channel in Surveillance Station, providing you with convenient control of your multimedia experience.

Multi-OS Platform

Virtualization Station and Container Station bring comprehensive solutions for virtualization environment deployment. You can count on QNAP virtualization apps to find a suitable solution tailored to your specific requirement.

Virtualization Station Virtualization Station allows you to run multiple Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Android virtual machines on the TS-453BT3. You can use Virtual Network Computing (VNC) through a browser to manage the VMs. It's designed for organisations to run multiple applications on a single NAS.

Container Station Container Station integrates LXC and Docker lightweight virtualization technologies. You can download apps from the built-in Docker Hub to import/export container apps and manage access control, enjoying the benefit of easy installation, transferability, and high-efficiency.

Storage Expansion

You need an easy solution to increase storage capacity when running out of space. QNAP provides several ways to expand your NAS storage as needed to accommodate data or business growth.

Upgrade RAID Capacity Hot swap lower capacity drives with larger capacity drives so that your QNAP NAS can grow with your business.

Attach Expansion Enclosures The TS-453BT3 can connect with up to 6 TX-800P or TX-500P Thunderbolt 2 expansion enclosures, or 1 UX-800P or UX-500P USB 3.0 expansion enclosure.

VJBOD Use VJBOD (Virtual JBOD) to expand your storage capacity by using the unused storage of another QNAP NAS. Up to 8 QNAP NAS can be mounted as local disks on the TS-453BT3.

Migrate to a New NAS Instal your NAS hard drives into a larger QNAP NAS with more drive bays and retain all your existing data and configurations.

More Productivity Applications

IFTTT Agent IFTTT allows you to freely connect your QNAP NAS with useful apps and gives you the ability to create user-defined rules/tasks.

Qmail Agent Centrally manage and cheque multiple email accounts on one platform. You can also backup all the emails on NAS for higher confidentiality.

Browser Station Enables remote access through NAS browsers to access local LAN resources without going through complex VPN settings.

DJ2 Live Live Broadcasting through a QNAP NAS, while also streaming to public clouds. The footage is saved directly to the NAS for later playback.

QIoT Suite Lite Combines the security and large capacity of a QNAP NAS while providing an IoT solution on a private cloud. It takes only three steps to deploy your own IoT application.

Mobile Apps Simplifies files access, multimedia experience, surveillance, and download tasks on mobile devices with QNAP apps.