Infinity Vault Q4 | QNAP TS-464 4-Bay Desktop NAS | Celeron N5095

In many small offices the company's files live on individual PCs, a shared laptop folder and a drawer of USB drives. Nobody controls who can open what, there is no history to roll back to when a file is overwritten, and the backup has never been tested. Infinity Vault Q4 gives clinics, law and accounting practices, trades and retail back offices of about 1-15 users one central, permission-controlled home for their files and PC backups, in a unit small enough for a shelf, set up properly from day one and supported by the team that configured it.

Genuine QNAP NAS appliance supplied, configured and supported by Infinity Computers. The QNAP TS-464 pairs a 4-core Intel Celeron N5095 (up to 2.9GHz) and Intel UHD Graphics with 8GB of DDR4, expandable to 16GB with genuine QNAP modules. It has four hot-swappable 3.5-inch SATA bays that also accept 2.5-inch SATA SSDs, two M.2 2280 NVMe slots for SSD caching, two 2.5GbE ports, 10Gbps USB connectivity and an HDMI 2.1 output, in a 165 x 170 x 226.5 mm desktop tower that draws about 40 W in typical use (QNAP). One PCIe Gen3 x2 slot takes an optional QNAP 10GbE card.

Base configuration includes the QNAP NAS appliance. Storage drives are sold separately. Order it diskless and install drives from QNAP's compatibility list for the TS-464; we then build the storage pool on your drives in an included remote setup session. Or add a Seagate IronWolf Pro drive pack, from 2 x 8TB to 4 x 16TB, which we check against QNAP's list, test, build into a storage pool and burn in before shipping. The drives travel in a separate protective carton, labelled by bay. Raw capacity is the combined size of the drives; usable capacity is what remains after RAID protection, before file-system overhead and the snapshot space we reserve (20% of the pool by default). Capacities are in decimal terabytes; the NAS reports binary units (TiB), which read about 9% lower. Four 12TB drives, for example, are 48TB raw and 36TB usable in RAID 5; two-drive packs are built as a RAID 1 mirror and leave two bays free.

QNAP's QTS 6.1 runs the system: SMB, AFP and NFS file sharing, per-user and per-group permissions with quotas, volume snapshots as often as every 5 minutes, Hybrid Backup Sync 3 for copies to USB, a second QNAP or cloud storage, Qsync file sync, Apple Time Machine for Macs and HDP PC Agent for Windows PC backup. QNAP's ZFS-based QuTS hero is available at no charge if chosen before setup; on this four-bay model it does not offer triple-parity RAID, and inline deduplication is not recommended because 16GB is both QNAP's minimum for it and this model's maximum. Changing the operating system later erases all data.

Choose the Q4 when four bays are enough and space is tight: it is the smallest Vault, and the only desktop Vault with integrated graphics and an HDMI output. For RAID 6 with room to grow, ECC memory or two expansion slots, step up to Infinity Vault Q6. For an open ZFS file server built by Infinity and covered by our own 3-Year Hardware Warranty, see Infinity Vault 4.

Every Q4 includes Infinity Ready setup: inspection, QNAP warranty registration, a bench test, current firmware and our security baseline (a named administrator in place of the default account, 2-step verification, and no router port forwarding or UPnP exposure, following QNAP's own security guidance), plus alerts, an as-built sheet and a 30-minute remote handover. Options include a QNAP dual-port 10GBASE-T card, a CyberPower UPS with automatic shutdown, memory to 16GB (quoted), and services for file shares and permissions, snapshot and 3-2-1 backup planning, directory join, secure remote access and yearly Vault Care. RAID keeps the NAS running through a drive failure, but it is not a backup: it does not protect against deletion, ransomware, theft, fire or the loss of the NAS itself, and snapshots stay on the same drives. Keep a second copy on another device and one off-site. The appliance is covered by QNAP's 3-year manufacturer warranty (bundled accessories, including the 90 W power adapter, for 1 year), and Infinity Computers adds the configuration and lifetime technical support.