QNAP TS-473A-8G-US 4-Bay NAS Enclosure

The QNAP TS-473A-8G-US is a four bay NAS enclosure that brings server level performance to offices, studios, and work-from-home labs that need secure, high speed shared storage. At its core sits a 2.2 GHz AMD Ryzen V1500B quad core processor and the unit ships with 8 GB of DDR4 memory that you can expand to 64 GB when workloads grow.

Four 3.5 inch SATA III drive bays let you build the capacity and redundancy profile that fits your data strategy, whether that is maximum speed with RAID 0, balanced protection with RAID 5, or advanced fault tolerance with RAID 6 or 10. Two M.2 PCIe Gen3 x1 slots accept NVMe SSDs to create a read and write cache, giving large databases, virtual machines, and multimedia projects a noticeable boost in responsiveness.

Network traffic moves through dual 2.5GbE ports that can be bonded for aggregated throughput or failover protection. If your environment demands even more bandwidth, two PCIe 3.0 x4 slots stand ready for 10GbE adapters, additional M.2 storage cards, or even a low profile GPU for on-device transcoding and AI tasks.

External transfers are handled by USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports that deliver up to 10 Gb per second, making quick work of bulky project folders or full system backups. The enclosure can run QTS for general purpose file sharing or QuTS hero for ZFS-based data integrity, letting you match the operating system to your workflow without changing hardware.

Small and medium businesses will appreciate the unit as a central file server, while content creators can edit video directly over the network and keep every revision protected by snapshots. IT administrators can deploy it for virtualization labs or as a target for enterprise-grade backup software. In short, the TS-473A-8G-US adapts to a wide range of professional scenarios and grows alongside them.

• AMD Ryzen V1500B quad core 2.2 GHz processor
• 8 GB DDR4 RAM, expandable to 64 GB
• Four SATA III drive bays with RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, or 10
• Two M.2 PCIe Gen3 x1 SSD slots for caching
• Two 2.5GbE ports with link aggregation support
• Dual PCIe 3.0 x4 slots for future expansion
• USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports for 10 Gb per second transfers
• Runs QTS or ZFS-based QuTS hero operating systems