THE TURBONAS TS-451

The TS-451 follows the typical design by QNAP but this time over the exterior of the enclosure is made out of plastic. Size-wise nothing new here since the TS-451 measures 235mm in length, 180mm in width and 177mm in height with a weight of 4.34Kg.

A small section on the left side of the chassis is perforated allowing hot air to exit.

The fascia is not new to us either so again here we see the on/off power button, one touch copy button, USB 3.0 port and the activity LEDs.

Unfortunately although quite sturdy the 4 drive trays are made out of hard plastic and can hold both 2.5" and 3.5" drives.

Moving at the rear of the TS-451 we find a 120mm exhaust fan, two GbE ports, one USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, HDMI port and a Kensington lock.

The device sits on 4 rubber feet.

Removing the top cover is very easy since the plastic enclosure slides open (you still need to remove the rear screws).

Our sample arrived with two ADATA 2GB 1600MHz SO-DIMM modules.

The CPU is passively cooled via a medium-sized heatsink.

We also find the same 512MB flash DOM by Apacer as we did with the TS-470/Pro models.

Again we made use of our Seagate Constellation ES.3 4TB drives to test the device.