**Naza TS4-31 Review: A Powerhouse NAS for Storage and Editing**

The Naza TS4-31 is an external enclosure designed to provide fast storage and editing capabilities, particularly for those working with high-capacity drives. With its sleek matte black exterior, this compact NAS unit fits seamlessly into any editing setup.

One of the standout features of the TS4-31 is its 10 Gigabit Ethernet port on the rear, which is an SFP+ port requiring a separate cable to be purchased separately if desired. This high-speed networking option allows for fast data transfer and is ideal for those working with large files and demanding editing software.

The enclosure also features two single Gigabit LAN ports on the rear for connecting to a router or PC, as well as three USB 3.0 ports, with two being available for external drive connections. The TS4-31's quad-core ARM Cortex A15 CPU is clocked at 1.7 GHz, paired with 2 GB of memory, ensuring efficient performance and fast data transfer.

Installing the drives was a breeze, thanks to the drive bays which slide in and out smoothly. While not the tallest enclosure on the market, it's hardly noticeable with only a few screws required for installation. The OS on the NAS is tidy and easy to use, but also extensive and intimidating for those new to storage management.

The resource monitor on the TS4-31 provides valuable insights into CPU and memory usage, which was not a concern in this instance, as the drive array remained within limits even with RAID 0 setup. The ability to configure the drive array in RAID 0 for maximum speed or in RAID 1-5-6 for data redundancy offers flexibility and peace of mind.

Using the TS4-31, I initialized the drives in RAID 0 first to evaluate speeds, noting that RAID 0 is ideal for fast storage access rather than backups. The connection proved fast enough for my workflow, but with some overhead.

To further optimize performance, I reinitialized the drives to RAID 10, which offers twice the speed of a single drive while maintaining redundancy in case one fails. While this reduced storage capacity, it was deemed necessary for optimal performance and data recovery.

However, there were some notable drawbacks to using the TS4-31. Connecting to the NAS via my wireless router proved problematic, resulting in slow speeds and limited efficiency. Specifically, uploading a single video file took around 30 megabytes per second when connected wirelessly, while downloading from it was slower still. This is likely due to the wireless connection rather than any fault with the TS4-31 itself.

Perhaps the biggest disappointment for this reviewer was the noise emanating from the NAS unit itself, which proved loud and intrusive despite being designed to be quiet. The constant hum and knock of the enclosure's fans were a significant drawback, particularly since it was installed on a desk, where silence is key.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I'm pleased with my experience with the TS4-31, especially as a first-time user of NAS storage. Its compact design, fast performance, and flexibility make it an attractive option for those seeking to upgrade their storage setup.

As the reviewer continues to explore the capabilities of the TS4-31, they express hope that future enclosures will be designed with quieter operation in mind. For now, however, this device has provided a reliable and efficient storage solution, despite its limitations.

In particular, the reviewer notes that their dream storage setup would involve 40 terabytes or more of Iron Wolf drives configured for fast storage access via USB 3.1 Gen2, Thunderbolt 2, or faster connections. For those looking to upgrade their storage needs, recommendations include exploring alternative enclosures that offer these features and capacities.

Ultimately, the TS4-31 is a solid choice for those seeking fast storage and editing capabilities, albeit with some caveats regarding wireless connectivity and noise levels. As with any storage device, it's essential to weigh these considerations before making a decision.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what is up guys so I started optimum tech a little under 2 years ago and ever since then my approach to storing my project and video files has been extremely poor but today we take a big step forward in terms of workflow efficiency so far I've been storing my video projects on these painfully slow external three and a half inch drives I use these for almost every video that I work on here on the channel because there's always that one clip that I need to go back and find for every single project and of course for the video projects that need to be transferred from my main editing machine to somewhere else eventually now there are some obvious problems with this approach which we'll talk about in just a minute but I'm so excited to finally take a look at a proper storage solution for all of my video projects today we'll be taking a look at 40 terabytes worth of Huynh wolf drugs from Seagate and storing those in the QNAP ts4 31 X 2 nas so a huge thanks to both Seagate and QNAP for making this upgrade possible so first a quick look at the hardware and then we'll talk about my workflow for handling video files and projects and hopper has been improved significantly with this new nas and 40 terabytes might not sound like a lot for video production but luckily my video files are very lightweight since my camera shoots at just 100 megabits per second have 4k so I'm expecting this to last me quite a while based off of my current video project file size of 40 gigabytes and my current upload frequency which is roughly 10 videos per month that means that I'll be able to store up to 1000 video projects over these 40 terabytes of drives and at my current upload frequency that means it should last me about 100 months or a little over eight years of course though I probably will upgrade my camera in the near future and I will probably upload more frequently as time goes on and my workflow becomes a little bit more efficient however it's just a great feeling and if you are a video creator or maybe do some media work on a site with large files you know the feeling of having this much overhead in terms of storage capacity of course that's not factoring in a raid array in certain configurations you do lose quite a lot of space usually cut in half and we'll talk about that in just a minute the iron wolf drives have some great reviews and a regard to some of the best in the business with up to 14 turbot capacity it being available in a nice 8 disc array you've also got three years warranty and a massive 1 million hours on average between drive failures I've got 4 of the 10 terabyte drives as I said before which retail for about 300 US per drive and this is priced pretty competitively against the 10 terabyte 7200 rpm WD red drives a waste on Amazon u.s. alright next up let's take a look at the nez that I'll be using to house the 40 terabytes of storage and that's the cue nap ts4 31 x2 it's a tiny little enclosure with mostly a matte black exterior so it matches my current editing machine quite well and one of the biggest standout features here is the 10 Gigabit Ethernet port on the rear it is an sfp+ port though and the cable is not included so they don't need to be purchased separately if you'd like to make use of that 10 gigabit networking otherwise there's two single Gigabit LAN ports on the rear for connecting to your router or PC and you can also connect external USB Drive to the ts4 31 via the three USB 3 ah no ports two or three and one at the front this model also has a quad-core arm cortex a15 CPU clocked at 1.7 gigahertz and 2 gigabytes of memory installing the drives is pretty simple with the drive bays which slide in and out nice and smoothly it's not completely tallest like some other nails and closures that I've seen but a few screws aren't going to hurt anyone the installation went smoothly - and initializing all of the drives only took roughly 40 minutes also the OS on the NAS is pretty tidy and easy to use but it also is pretty extensive and intimidating for me personally depending on how deep you want to go I really appreciate the resource monitor which shows things like CPU and memory usage luckily mine was not maxing out even with a raid array in place I barely scratched the surface of what this oness offers and to be honest this is complete overkill for my use case you've got the option to set the drive array up in raid 0 for maximum speed or for data redundancy you could select one five six or ten depending on your needs now the biggest games that I personally wanted to see moving to this new set up for storage were both the improved capacity but even more so the improvement in speed as that way I could truly speed up my workflow by a decent amount so I wanted to initialize the drives in raid zero first to evaluate the speeds there and keep in mind that raid zero should ideally be used for fast storage access and not backups there I'd advise exploring raid 1 6 or 10 raid 0 was able to fully saturate the gigabit connection both when downloading and uploading footage - some overhead and ideally if you are using the set up as fast storage access in raid 0 not a backup that 10 gigabit port is definitely recommended the one key bit per second connection is fast enough for my workflow and since I am being bottlenecked by it I decided to reinitialize my drives to raid 10 as this way I'm still getting twice the speed from a single Drive but also twice the redundancy so this way even if a single Drive fails it still can be recovered although my storage will be cut in half unfortunately connecting to the NAS via the router was a no-go for me personally seeing as I connect to my router wirelessly and transfer speeds there were a big issue even with the raid 0 array and connection I was only seeing about 30 megabytes per second when uploading a single video to the NAS and about 40 megabytes per second when downloading from it via a wireless connection from my PC that's probably no fault of the Naza but more so via the wireless connection and I guess the biggest negative for me personally is the noise coming from the NAS it's not just the usual mechanical drive spinning noise but it's also a lot of intimate and rumbling and knocking that's a shame because I've spent a lot of time optimizing my editing system for noise levels populating the nice silent knock door fans on my radiator for example but the constant noise from the NAS is kind of annoying since I'm unable to utilize that fast storage over a wireless connection and having it on my desk is intolerable due to constant noise I probably look elsewhere for a external enclosure for these drives overall though I'm pretty pleased with the hardware it is my first time playing around with NASA as well as storage in raid so it's definitely a new and exciting step my current setup just can't accommodate an as low especially one this loud so I guess you could say there will be a part two very soon my dream storage setup would be 40 terabytes or so in raid zero utilizing those iron wolf drives so that I could access my previous video projects extremely quickly as well as push my completed projects off of my editing system and then have additional storage solely for backups so if you guys have any recommendations for a separate enclosure for these 40 terabytes worth of iron wolf drives let me know down below I personally like to move to something like a USB 3.1 gen2 connection or possibly a Thunderbolt 2 or fundable 3 seeing as my next motherboard upgrade will have that as always guys a huge thanks for watching subscribe down below if you haven't already and I'll see you all in the next onehey what is up guys so I started optimum tech a little under 2 years ago and ever since then my approach to storing my project and video files has been extremely poor but today we take a big step forward in terms of workflow efficiency so far I've been storing my video projects on these painfully slow external three and a half inch drives I use these for almost every video that I work on here on the channel because there's always that one clip that I need to go back and find for every single project and of course for the video projects that need to be transferred from my main editing machine to somewhere else eventually now there are some obvious problems with this approach which we'll talk about in just a minute but I'm so excited to finally take a look at a proper storage solution for all of my video projects today we'll be taking a look at 40 terabytes worth of Huynh wolf drugs from Seagate and storing those in the QNAP ts4 31 X 2 nas so a huge thanks to both Seagate and QNAP for making this upgrade possible so first a quick look at the hardware and then we'll talk about my workflow for handling video files and projects and hopper has been improved significantly with this new nas and 40 terabytes might not sound like a lot for video production but luckily my video files are very lightweight since my camera shoots at just 100 megabits per second have 4k so I'm expecting this to last me quite a while based off of my current video project file size of 40 gigabytes and my current upload frequency which is roughly 10 videos per month that means that I'll be able to store up to 1000 video projects over these 40 terabytes of drives and at my current upload frequency that means it should last me about 100 months or a little over eight years of course though I probably will upgrade my camera in the near future and I will probably upload more frequently as time goes on and my workflow becomes a little bit more efficient however it's just a great feeling and if you are a video creator or maybe do some media work on a site with large files you know the feeling of having this much overhead in terms of storage capacity of course that's not factoring in a raid array in certain configurations you do lose quite a lot of space usually cut in half and we'll talk about that in just a minute the iron wolf drives have some great reviews and a regard to some of the best in the business with up to 14 turbot capacity it being available in a nice 8 disc array you've also got three years warranty and a massive 1 million hours on average between drive failures I've got 4 of the 10 terabyte drives as I said before which retail for about 300 US per drive and this is priced pretty competitively against the 10 terabyte 7200 rpm WD red drives a waste on Amazon u.s. alright next up let's take a look at the nez that I'll be using to house the 40 terabytes of storage and that's the cue nap ts4 31 x2 it's a tiny little enclosure with mostly a matte black exterior so it matches my current editing machine quite well and one of the biggest standout features here is the 10 Gigabit Ethernet port on the rear it is an sfp+ port though and the cable is not included so they don't need to be purchased separately if you'd like to make use of that 10 gigabit networking otherwise there's two single Gigabit LAN ports on the rear for connecting to your router or PC and you can also connect external USB Drive to the ts4 31 via the three USB 3 ah no ports two or three and one at the front this model also has a quad-core arm cortex a15 CPU clocked at 1.7 gigahertz and 2 gigabytes of memory installing the drives is pretty simple with the drive bays which slide in and out nice and smoothly it's not completely tallest like some other nails and closures that I've seen but a few screws aren't going to hurt anyone the installation went smoothly - and initializing all of the drives only took roughly 40 minutes also the OS on the NAS is pretty tidy and easy to use but it also is pretty extensive and intimidating for me personally depending on how deep you want to go I really appreciate the resource monitor which shows things like CPU and memory usage luckily mine was not maxing out even with a raid array in place I barely scratched the surface of what this oness offers and to be honest this is complete overkill for my use case you've got the option to set the drive array up in raid 0 for maximum speed or for data redundancy you could select one five six or ten depending on your needs now the biggest games that I personally wanted to see moving to this new set up for storage were both the improved capacity but even more so the improvement in speed as that way I could truly speed up my workflow by a decent amount so I wanted to initialize the drives in raid zero first to evaluate the speeds there and keep in mind that raid zero should ideally be used for fast storage access and not backups there I'd advise exploring raid 1 6 or 10 raid 0 was able to fully saturate the gigabit connection both when downloading and uploading footage - some overhead and ideally if you are using the set up as fast storage access in raid 0 not a backup that 10 gigabit port is definitely recommended the one key bit per second connection is fast enough for my workflow and since I am being bottlenecked by it I decided to reinitialize my drives to raid 10 as this way I'm still getting twice the speed from a single Drive but also twice the redundancy so this way even if a single Drive fails it still can be recovered although my storage will be cut in half unfortunately connecting to the NAS via the router was a no-go for me personally seeing as I connect to my router wirelessly and transfer speeds there were a big issue even with the raid 0 array and connection I was only seeing about 30 megabytes per second when uploading a single video to the NAS and about 40 megabytes per second when downloading from it via a wireless connection from my PC that's probably no fault of the Naza but more so via the wireless connection and I guess the biggest negative for me personally is the noise coming from the NAS it's not just the usual mechanical drive spinning noise but it's also a lot of intimate and rumbling and knocking that's a shame because I've spent a lot of time optimizing my editing system for noise levels populating the nice silent knock door fans on my radiator for example but the constant noise from the NAS is kind of annoying since I'm unable to utilize that fast storage over a wireless connection and having it on my desk is intolerable due to constant noise I probably look elsewhere for a external enclosure for these drives overall though I'm pretty pleased with the hardware it is my first time playing around with NASA as well as storage in raid so it's definitely a new and exciting step my current setup just can't accommodate an as low especially one this loud so I guess you could say there will be a part two very soon my dream storage setup would be 40 terabytes or so in raid zero utilizing those iron wolf drives so that I could access my previous video projects extremely quickly as well as push my completed projects off of my editing system and then have additional storage solely for backups so if you guys have any recommendations for a separate enclosure for these 40 terabytes worth of iron wolf drives let me know down below I personally like to move to something like a USB 3.1 gen2 connection or possibly a Thunderbolt 2 or fundable 3 seeing as my next motherboard upgrade will have that as always guys a huge thanks for watching subscribe down below if you haven't already and I'll see you all in the next one\n"