QNAP TL D800S Hardware Review

New NAS Expansion for a New Decade - But Is the QNAP TL-D800S Worth Your Data? https://nascompares.com/2020/06/06/qn...

Expanding a NAS DRIVE is something that most business users that come to depend on their storage system will have to consider at some point. Whether it is because you are saving one today and/or bought small because your data was small- eventually your data storage needs will grow and you will need to spend accordingly. Even in the very early days of network-attached storage it was already being pre-emptively considered. A NAS drive is not like most other computer hardware, in that an upgrade can be conducted on a hardware level, without significant impact on the software level. Sure, you can upgrade your NAS to a new model a few years down the line, but when you do that, it will almost certainly require all your shared files, paths and connected users to be shifted or changed. That is why when the inevitable day when your available space hits zero, you will be wondering how to proceed. Many homes and small business users will use this as an opportunity to upgrade their NAS to a new model, move the HDDs over (in their RAID), all the while crossing their fingers and praising their backups, with 'almost' 100% confidence that the data migration will be fine and drives will continue to function as they did on day 1. But that still needs you to spend big on new hardware almost certainly more than your first NAS, as well as the loss of time (very dependant on your own setup) to repairing, replacing and recreating those existing network connections. It is for reasons like this that many users will consider the often more cost-effective AND easier to adapt NAS expansion option. The ability to add an additional HDD enclosure that will 'bolt-on' additional hard drive bays to their existing NAS RAID storage system and allow you to INCREASE your available space has been around for almost as long as NAS itself, sometimes being used as local sync'd backups, as completely separate storage pools or just expanding the primary RAID accordingly. Today I want to discuss one of the several new QNAP NAS expansions revealed in their new TR and TL expansion series(full guide here), the brand new TL-D800S. This is their new 8 SATA Bay expansion device that arrives with multi-lane SAS support (as well as cables and a PCIe upgrade card to connect most modern NAS or Computer devices) and is designed to be an affordable and reliable way to expand your storage, arriving at just over £550+ - it is a whole lot lower in price than a new 8-Bay NAS, with the added benefit that it is also PC and limited Mac supported, so it can be used as a traditional DAS too. Some might argue that as it is JBOD, it has limited use outside of a NAS expansion (whereby the NAS CPU can conduct the RAID configuration and support) but we fast see a resurgence in JBOD use, with many users looking at thunderbolt and bigger and more capable SAS solutions that have fast access and just do what they are told! There is no avoiding that the TL-D800S is not for everyone, with some looking at the TR series (hardware RAID built-in) instead. So, let's take a look and serif the QNAP TL-D800S deserves your data.

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