Still, it does support multiple accounts, and we had no issues authorising it, linking it with a shared folder and setting an update frequency. We found the Google Drive sync app wasn't as slick as the Qnap and Synology apps either.
Your only options for cloud storage are Google Drive and Dropbox Qnap and Synology also support OneDrive, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Box, Amazon Glacier and Google Cloud Storage. The NAS542 supports rsync, so running synchronisation jobs between it and a Synology DS1813+ was simple.Īdditional apps and services can be downloaded from within the ZyXEL interface, but there's a small selection. Under the Protect menu, we were also able to create backup jobs that scheduled regular copies from a local share to another location on the appliance and the SDXC card slot.
We tested with a variety of SDXC cards and had no issue configuring jobs to copy their contents to a local share or run a bi-directional sync when the button was pressed. We then used the Application menu to enable features such as FTP, NFS and web publishing, and create jobs for the backup button. It's simple to set up users, groups and CIFS shares, and to set up access controls. To create shared volumes, storage options are listed in the left pane in a tree-style menu. You can also set up disk groups, allowing the creation of multiple RAID volumes that can be expanded on the fly into available space. We opted to configure a RAID5 array, although the NAS542 also supports mirrors, stripes and RAID6. It isn't consistent, though: clicking on the Administration icon opened a new browser with a different interface. This resembles Qnap and Synology's front-ends, with clear, chunky icons for storage management, control panel and file browser.
#ZYXEL NAS STARTER UTILITY WINDOWS 10 WINDOWS 10#
The handy NAS Starter utility, running on a Windows 10 desktop, quickly found the appliance and provided a link to its web interface. You get twin Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3 ports at the rear behind a removable panel at the front sit another USB 3 port and an SDXC slot, which work in tandem with the one-press backup button above.įor testing, we slipped three 2TB WD Enterprise SATA drives into the tool-less plastic carriers. The CPU is a modest 1.2GHz FreeScale Cortex-A9 model, with 1GB of non-upgradable DDR3 memory. Predictably, the hardware isn't terribly powerful. For a giveaway price of less than 120, this desktop box even supports IP SANs. Four-bay NAS appliances can be expensive, so ZyXEL's NAS542 should turn the head of any small business or home office seeking no-frills storage.
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