TS-831XU-RP | Software Specs

TS-831XU-RP Specification

Ordering P/N	TS-831XU-RP-4G
Processor	AnnapurnaLabs, an Amazon company Alpine AL-314 Quad-Core 1.7 GHz ARM® Cortex-A15 CPU
Hardware Encryption Accleration	✔
System Memory	4GB DDR3 (1 x 4GB)
Maximum Memory	16GB
Memory Slots	2 x SODIMM DDR3 (Note: For dual-DIMM configurations, you must use a pair of identical DDR3 RAM modules.)
Flash Memory	512MB
Drive Type	8 x 3.5"/2.5" SATA 6Gb/s HDDs/SSDs
10GbE LAN	2 x 10 Gigabit SFP+ LAN ports
GbE LAN	2 x Gigabit RJ45 LAN ports
USB	4 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports
PCIe Slot	1 x PCIe Gen2 (x2)
LED	Status/Power, LAN, HDD 1-8
Button	Power, Reset
Other	Kensington security slot, console port
Dimension (HxWxD)	89 x 482 x 534 mm 3.5 x 18.98 x 21.02 inch
Weight	Net: 11.01 kg (24.27 lbs)
Operating Temperature	0-40˚C
Relative Humidity	5~95% RH non-condensing, wet bulb: 27˚C
Noise Level	48.3 dB(A)*
Power Consumption	HDD standby: 37.15W In operation: 64.36W (with 8 x 2TB HDDs installed)
Power	ATX 250W, 100-240V AC, 5A-2.5A, 50Hz-60Hz (x2)
Fan	2 x 7cm system fan (12V DC)

Note: Use only QNAP memory modules to maintain system performance and stability. For NAS devices with more than one memory slot, use QNAP modules with identical specifications and refer to the hardware user manual to install compatible QNAP memory modules.
Warning: Using unsupported modules may degrade performance, cause errors, or prevent the operating system from starting.
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Operating System

QTS 4.3 (embedded Linux)

Power Management

Wake on LAN
Internal hard drive standby mode
Scheduled power on/off
Automatic power on after power recovery
USB and network UPS support with SNMP management

Supported Client OS

Apple Mac OS 10.7 or later
Linux and UNIX
Microsoft Windows 7, 8, and 10
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 and 2016

Access Right Management

Import/Export users
User quota management
Local user access control for CIFS, AFP, FTP, and WebDAV
Application access control for Photo Station, Music Station, Video Station, and File Station
Subfolder permissions support for CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP, and File Station

Supported Browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer 10+
Google Chrome
Apple Safari 7+
Mozilla Firefox

Domain Authentication Integration

Microsoft Active Directory (AD) & Domain Controller support
LDAP server, LDAP client
Domain users login via CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP, and File Station

Multilingual Support

Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

myQNAPcloud Service

Free host name registration (DDNS)
Optional myQNAPcloud SSL certificates (DDNS)
Auto router configuration (via UPnP)
Web-based file manager with HTTPS 2048-bit encryption
myQNAPcloud Link for remote access without any complicated router setup
myQNAPcloud connect for easy VPN connection (Windows VPN utility)

File System

Internal Hard Drive: EXT4
External Hard Drive: EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, FAT32, HFS+

Qsync

Sync files across multiple devices with SSL secure connection
Selective synchronization for only syncing specific folders
Use team folders as a file center for greater team collaboration with maximum 32 sync tasks
Shares files by links via e-mail
Policy settings for conflicting files and file type filter support
Version control: up to 64 versions.
Unified privilege management
Unified configuration management
Supports remote erase/restore
Supports shared folders sync
Supports Windows & Mac OS

Networking

TCP/IP (IPv4 & IPv6: Dual Stack)¹
Gigabit NICs with jumbo frame (failover, multi-IP settings, port trunking/NIC teaming)
Service binding based on network interfaces
Squid Proxy server
Proxy client
DHCP client, DHCP server
Protocols: CIFS/SMB, AFP (v3.3), NFS(v3), FTP, FTPS, SFTP, TFTP, HTTP(S), Telnet, SSH, iSCSI, SNMP, SMTP, and SMSC
UPnP & Bonjour Discovery
USB Wi-Fi Adapter Support

Resource Monitor

Monitor NAS system resources including CPU, memory and network
Monitor NAS storage resources including volumes, RAID, and disk activity
Monitor the resource usage of NAS applications
An extra swap space will be created if SSD is added to the NAS. Swap space on SSDs is prioritized over swap space on HDDs because of the greater speeds of SSDs

Security

Network access protection with auto-blocking: SSH, Telnet, HTTP(S), FTP, CIFS/SMB, AFP
CIFS host access control for shared folders
AES 256-bit volume-based data encryption²
AES 256-bit external drive encryption²
Importable SSL certificates. Supports certificates from Let’s Encrypt.
Instant alerts via email, SMS, beep, push service, and LCD panel³
2-step verification

Helpdesk

Report issues to the QNAP support team, with automatically-collected system information
Allows QNAP support engineers to remotely connect to the NAS to fix issues (with user permission)

Storage Management

Storage Space Utilization monitoring
QNAP flexible Volume/LUN with thin provisioning and space reclaim³
Disk volume types: RAID 0,1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60, + hot spare, JBOD, single
Supports storage pools
Supports snapshots
- Supports Volume/LUN snapshot
- Snapshot manager
- Snapshot clone
- Snapshot vault
- Snapshot replica
- Snapshot agent for Microsoft Windows and VMware vSphere
Online volume expansion
Online storage pool expansion
Online RAID capacity expansion and online RAID level migration
SMART data migration
JBOD enclosure roaming
SSD read-only/read-write cache
Bad block scan and hard drive S.M.A.R.T.
Bad block recovery & RAID recovery
Bitmap support

Web Administration

Multi-window, multi-tasking based system management
Smart toolbar and dashboard for neat system status display
Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
SNMP (v2 & v3)
Resource monitor
Network recycle bin for file deletion via CIFS/SMB, AFP, and File Station
- Automatic Cleanup
- File Type Filter
Comprehensive logs (events & connection)
Syslog client/server
System settings backup and restore
Mobile app: Qmanager for remote system monitoring & management

Powerful All-in-one server

File Server

File sharing across Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX
Microsoft networking
Windows ACL
Advanced folder permissions for CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP
Shared folder aggregation (CIFS/SMB)

Download Station

PC-less BT, FTP/FTPS, and HTTP/HTTPS, Thunder, FlashGet and qqdl download (up to 500 Tasks)
- The maximum number of concurrent downloads: 30 (10 BT/PT, 10 HTTP, 10FTP downloads)
BT download with search, Magnet Link and PT support
Supports add-ons to expand download functionality
Scheduled download and bandwidth control
RSS subscription and download (broadcatching)
Proxy support for BT download
Mobile app: Qget for downloads browsing and management

FTP Server

FTP over SSL/TLS (Explicit)
FXP support

Notes Station

Collaborative editor for multi-user text editing
Spreadsheet editor for creating tables
Online quick preview of multimedia attachments
Smart snapshot for version control

File Station

Supports mounting cloud drives (such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, HiDrive, Amazon Cloud Drive, Yandex Disk and Box)
Supports mounting remote shared folders through FTP, WebDAV or Microsoft networking (SMB/CIFS)
Supports opening documents via Office Online, Google Docs or Chrome Extension (Edit Office files in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides)
Supports ISO Mounting (Up to 256 ISO Files)
Supports sharing download links and upload links
Drag-n-drop Files via Chrome and Firefox Browsers
Photo, music, and video preview and playback⁴
File Compression (ZIP or 7z)
Creation of and sending download links for sharing public files with expiration date and password protection
Supports displaying subtitles (*.SRT, UTF-8 format)
Mobile App: Qfile for file browsing and management

Container Station

Supports LXC and Docker
Download applications from the built-in Docker Hub Registry
Supports one-click installation, container export/import & console mode
Supports adding private registries
Added an application repository for users to switch to any repository on GitHub.com

Qfiling

Supports auto filing

Qsirch

Supports full-text search
Supports near real-time search
Bar chart to show data distribution
Supports previews for photos, music, videos, Gmail, PDF .etc
Customized search filters
Supports cloud viewers for previewing document.
Show search results using thumbnails or a list
Supports search Chrome extension

Backup Station

Remote replication server (over rsync)
Real-time remote replication (RTRR) to another QNAP NAS, FTP or CIFS/SMB server
Works as both RTRR server & client with bandwidth control
Real-time & scheduled backup
Backup versioning for RTRR
Snapshot support for RTRR/Rsync
Encryption, compression, file filter, and transfer rate limitation
Desktop backup with QNAP NetBak Replicator for Windows®
Apple Time Machine backup support
Data backup to multiple external storage devices
Third party backup software support: Veeam backup & replication, Acronis True Image, Arcserve backup, emc retrospect, Symantec Backup Exec, etc.

iSCSI (IP SAN)

iSCSI target with multi-LUNs per target (Up to 256 targets/LUNs combined)
Supports LUN mapping & masking
Online LUN capacity expansion
Support for SPC-3 persistent reservation
Supports MPIO & MC/S
iSCSI LUN backup, one-time snapshot, and restoration
iSCSI connection and management by QNAP Windows QFinder
Virtual disk drive (via iSCSI initiator)
Stack chaining master
Max No. of virtual disk drives: 8

Cloud Drive Sync

Multiple cloud account management like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and hubiC
Supports multiple cloud accounts
Manual, scheduled, periodic and continuous sync
Flexible file filtering using type, date, and size
SSL transfer encryption
Dashboard and job statistics
Configurable network error recovery options
Extensive job activity logging for tracing history of status and statistics
Concurrent job execution and multi-threaded data transfer
Per-account bandwidth throttling

Surveillance Station

Supports over 3,000 IP cameras
Includes 2 free camera licenses, up to 30 camera channels by purchasing additional licenses
Instant playback to check recent events
Visual aid by e-map
Playback and speed control using the shuttle bar
Video preview on playback timeline
Intelligent video analytics (IVA) for advanced video searching
Surveillance client for Mac
Mobile surveillance app: Vmobile (iOS and Android)
Mobile recording app: Vcam (iOS and Android)

Cloud Backup Station

S3 Plus (including Amazon S3)
Amazon Glacier
Google Cloud Storage
WebDAV-based cloud storage
Microsoft Azure
OpenStack Swift

QVPN Service (Integrated VPN Server, VPN Client and L2TP/IPSec VPN Services)

VPN Server: Secure remote access with PPTP、L2TP/IPSec & OpenVPN VPN services
VPN Server: Up to 300 clients.
VPN Server: Supports domain users as VPN users.
VPN Client: Supports PPTP, L2TP/IPSec & OpenVPN VPN protocols.
VPN Client: Supports importing .ovpn files to create OpenVPN connection.

Print Server

Max number of printers: 3
Supports Internet Printing Protocol
Print job display and management
IP-based and domain name-based privilege control

DLNA Server

Supports DLNA/UPnP TVs and players such as PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Support CUE indexing file for APE, FLAC audio format.

Photo Station

Show photos by thumbnails, list, timeline, or folder view
Supports virtual/smart albums
Tag photos with text, colors, and ratings
Slideshows with background music and different transition effects
Geotag photos and display them on Google maps
Supports uploading photos/videos to Picasa, Flickr, and Weibo.
Backup/Restore album configurations
Mobile app: Qphoto for online browsing and sharing

Q’center (NAS CMS)

Multiple NAS monitoring
Utilization history reports
Unified configuration management
Visual display reports
Monitor NAS behind NAT routers with Q’center Assistant

Music Station

Play or share music via web browser⁴
Supports streaming music to multiple devices
Supports changing album covers via Google search or by uploading photos
Internet radio (MP3)
Up to 8 music alarms
Mobile app: Qmusic for music streaming and management
Switch between spotlight mode and manage mode
Supports scrolling lyrics

Qcontactz

One-way scheduled sync of contacts from multiple Google accounts
Import contacts from file: CSV or vCard 3.0
Export contacts into a file: CSV and vCard 3.0
Find duplicate contacts and merge them
Snapshot management for your contacts database
Manage contacts: Groups, favorite, lock, search, delete & restore
Supported for mobile: Android and iPhone

App Center

Official and community software add-ons
Automatically update apps or send notifications of new app versions.
App repository to import third-party content
Choose what volume to save apps to

Video Station

Supports virtual/smart collections⁴
Tag videos with text, color, and ratings
Share video links to social websites or through email
Display movie information and posters from Internet sources or user-uploaded files
Supports displaying subtitles (*.SRT,*.ASS, *.SSA)
Supports online searching and downloading of subtitles as well as importing subtitle files
Supports Facebook friends login
Supports advanced folder permission settings
Supports LDAP users
Videos can be uploaded to YouTube and Youku.
Supports multi-zone video display
Mobile app: Qvideo for online video browsing and management

Qfinder Pro Windows Utility

Find QNAP NAS that are on the same local network as your PC.
Easily mount NAS shared folders
Configure basic settings for the NAS including firmware updates, setting SMTP server, and changing network settings
Storage Plug & Connect (Windows only).
- Create and map NAS shared folders
- Create and connect to iSCSI target/LUNs
Media Upload (Windows only)
- Upload media files to the NAS and automatically create thumbnails or transcode videos using the PC

AirPlay & Chromecast

Streams videos, photos and music from NAS to Apple TV or Chromecast via File Station, Music Station, Photo Station, Video Station or mobile app (Qfile, Qmusic, Qphoto or Qvideo).

Note: The Media Streaming add-on app must be installed from the QTS App Center.

¹ Not all services are supported.
² Data encryption functions may be unavailable in accordance with the legislative restrictions of some countries.
³ This feature may vary by model.
⁴ DRM-protected content is not supported.

Designs and specifications are subject to change without notice.