QNAP TS-133-US 1 Bay Affordable Desktop NAS with ARM Cortex-A55 Quad-core Processor and 2 GB DDR4 RAM (Diskless)
$139.00
Available in stock
Description
Price: $139.00
(as of Jul 12, 2024 05:53:57 UTC – Details)
The compact and slim TS-133 prioritizes a clean and essential design, and perfectly blends into your home or office. The TS-133 is small in size and remains high-performance, cool, and quiet with an effective cooling fan.
ARM Cortex-A55 quad-core 1.8GHz processor with 2 GB DDR4 RAM
Budget-friendly Home NAS for file storage and multimedia streaming
Centrally store and organize personal or family photos, music, and videos
Mitigate the threat of ransomware with QNAP’s storage snapshot technology
Effortlessly backup your Windows Computers with QNAP’s NetBak Replicator software and Mac computers with Time Machine
Securely access your Files from anywhere with MyQNAPCloud
Customers say
Customers like the value of the system cabinet, saying it adds value to their home. They also appreciate the compact size and performance in a compact package. However, some customers have mixed opinions on ease of use, speed, performance, and quality.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews
Nathan Moody –
Easy
Easy, I popped in my HDDs, booted it up and everything worked great. Very minimal configuration.
B. Kelley –
Works great for basic+ NAS
If you’re just using it as storage/backup/streaming videos this is perfect.It has a lot of options and apps but it struggles to run too much. I wanted to set it up to do radarr, sonarr, prowlarr, and download torrents with a vpn. I got that all running with docker and Container Station but it kept running out of memory and the services kept stopping. Similarly, you can install plex server on this but I’m 99% certain it would struggle and buffer constantly.It’s a fun toy with a lot of flexibility but it doesn’t have the hardware to follow through imo. It’s a great device for the price range, just don’t expect it to do things it’s not designed for.
Mlat –
Works well once it is set up
The hardware works well. The set-up process is not straightforward. It is clear that all of the documentation is aimed at people who understand networks–not the average computer user. It is very important that anyone who buys this downloads the user manual from the link in the product listing. There should have been a simple check list of how to get the NAS up and running. Enhancements can come later. So, here it is a simple list of things to do. Install the hard drives, download and install the Qfinder Pro app from the website. Open the app and sign into the NAS. This will open a web page in your browser which is the dashboard for interacting with the device. Create a storage pool. Create a volume from the storage pool. Create a RAID array from the volume. Then create any folders that you want. You will also need the QTS-5.1 User Guide which has what seems like an almost infinite amount of information about servers. More than 90% of it does not help me, but the section on file operations is important. The QNAP web site has what you need but it takes a while to find it. There are a lot of features that can be added to the NAS which give the unit more capabilities if you need it to do more than store files.I am replacing an old Western Digital NAS that did the job for me without all of the options that this NAS has. Now it is installed it works well and file transfers are much faster than before. The online dashboard is easy to use once you get used to the way it is organized. This is a good value for the money and I hope that it lasts as long as my Western Digital NAS did.
BoomerSooner –
Good NAS for home
While not the easiest to set up, it works well for me. There are some functions and aspects of it that I don’t understand because I am not an IT guy but no issues streaming media from it.
Nevada Geezer –
Quick install, runs fine, but ….
Had an old TS-212 that was working fine but getting pretty old and was quite slow at times. It is so old that system updates stopped working.Removed the hard drives from the 212 and put them in the 233 and fired it up. Pretty much everything came up just like before with the same data, login and password but a lot faster. Only the network address changed but QFinder gave me the new address.The 233 wanted system updates, which took a little while.Have an external USB drive for real-time backups and had to find the app for that (HBS3 – Hybrid Backup Sync 3) and load and configure it again.Overall, I’m quite satisfied with this unit.Only negative is the on-line tutorials barely help. The main issue is they are mostly long videos and one has to wait for them to get to the point, if possible. Sometimes it may not be the correct video so 5 minutes are wasted wading thru it. Their PDF qts5.0x user manual is better.Update 8/3/2023Been running for 10 months. Failed yesterday – seemed to be running but no Ethernet communication and so can’t talk to it. Ended up pulling the older and slower QNAP 212 unit out of storage and using that to get up and running again. This 233 is in the trash. Bought a new 233 that installed quickly and is running fine.Update 8/22/23Have downgraded my rating from 3 to 1 star.I’m done with QNAP. I am disgusted with this model. The second 233 quit today with exactly the same symptom of the prior 233.
JeffMD –
Overwhelming as a “my first NAS”, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I had an old basic WD cloud book which did a great job for what it was supposed to do, but they never expanded on it, it wasn’t upgradable in any way, and so on. I only needed some basic NAS features and didn’t want to spend much but everything below the $200 threshold in NAS units have one or more large flaws.Going into this guy, the cpu speeds didn’t knock my socks off so expect some sluggish responses in the UI, but other then that I was blown away with all the stuff in the app store available. I was also not expecting the full featured windowed UI when accessing over the web page. If you are a person who gets worried when 3 different icons in your task bar shows multiple notifications all the time, this may not be for you. The UI reports a ton of information and even though it may not be a problem, it gets mixed in with your long list of other notifications of warnings and such. There will be a sizeable learning curve if you have never worked with NAS software before.
jjgeddis –
Very difficult to set up
This NAS only identifies one drive connected to it. the other 3 drives cannot be identified by the NAS.
Mark E Nesbitt –
This is my third home NAS box in maybe 20 years, and it’s light years ahead of the old NAS devices in terms of capabilities, software and design. Highly recommended, I think it’s fully as good as Synology and better value.I have 2×8 TB mirrored drives in this, and I’m primarily using is as a media server at home.
Porfirio Ramirez –
El dispositivo cumple con lo que promete, pero sin experiencia es complicado la configuración, las aplicaciones son limitadas y complicadas si deseas independencia entre usuarios te limitas a las aplicaciones de la marca
dryron –
Absolument identique au besoin exprimé
John Ryll –
This is a great little NAS for home use and is my second QNAP NAS. Very quiet, you can hear the hard drives spin up and seek, but the fan is very quiet and hardly noticeable. With 2.5 and 1.0 GbE connections there is no need to have it so close if the sound bothers you and has great connections speeds. Easy to set up, but you do need to understand networking a little, otherwise stay away from a NAS and buy a USB device.
Ankit –
Feel slow at some time, not for heavy users. Max transfer speed experienced was 11 Mbps (roughly around 100 mbps). Haven’t used Plex yet. Using 2.5″ hhd for around 1.5 months now. Working fine for now. 2gb ram is not enough & ram is not expandable. Havey task use 94% CPU processor & 75% ram, extra ram is used from sweep storage (8gb) which make it slow when doing heavy task. Being a bigner little tricky to use. Overall good compared to price. Deducted 1 star for not adding Ram extension slot.