Quick tech specs
- 8 bays
- SATA 6Gb/s
- RAM 4 GB
- iSCSI
- rack-mountable
- RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 5 hot spare, 6 hot spare, 10 hot spare
- Gigabit Ethernet
- 2U
Know your gear
The TS-853BU is a 2U rack mount NAS that easily fits into a standard 19-inch rack, providing an ideal storage solution in the server room for small and medium businesses. The TS-853BU comes with a PCIe slot for boosting potential applications: the QNAP QM2 expansion card can be installed to add an M.2 SSD cache/10GbE connectivity, a compatible wireless card can be installed to use the TS-853BU as a wireless access point, and a USB 3.1 10Gbps card can be added for easier backup to/from multiple external storage. The TS-853BU also provides a wide range of value-added features: 4K video playback and real-time transcoding; deployment of virtual environments through Virtualization Station and Container Station; centralized management of remote Windows, Linux, and IPMI-compatible devices with QRM+; and web automation services with IFTTT Agent.