Quick Configuration

QNAP's online quick-start guide will help you set the NAS up easily and quickly. The first step has you install the HDDs and connect all the necessary cables. You only have to turn the NAS on afterward. Once done, you will be asked to navigate to start.qnap.com, where you must enter your cloud key found in your quick-installation guide. Please note that you can pick the local installation option if you have no Internet access or chance upon the unlikely case of your NAS coming without a key.


Once you enter the cloud key, you will be asked to register the NAS by creating a myQNAPcloud account.


You are now ready to start QNAP's very easy-to-follow Quick Setup. The most important step is the RAID level selection of all installed HDDs. Whether you want to conduct a bad block scan, which will take some time to finish but is to be recommended, is up to you.


This is the screen you will see after the installation has finished. It will provide you with three options: You can connect and login into QTS, check your email for the myQNAPclound activation mail, or get more utilities for your NAS. We chose the last option to show you all the utilities QNAP provides for their NAS servers before proceeding to the QTS login page.


QNAP provides seven utilities which will help you get the most of your NAS server. We will take a look at them later on this page.


You can access the login page after configuration has finished.


After we logged into QTS for the first time, a message popped up. Informing us of an available firmware update, it also asked whether we would like to perform the update immediately.

QNAP Utilities

The myQNAPcloud service provides various remote access services, such as DDNS or CloudLink. No matter where you go, you can always securely access all your QNAP devices.


The most interesting utility is probably Qfinder. This program can also make installing your new NAS server a breeze. Once you install and run Qfinder, it will find the NAS' IP address on the network; it will also check for any available firmware updates since QNAP releases firmware updates quite often. You can even map network drives, search for network cameras, and shutdown or restart the NAS, or perform other such useful functions in Qfinder.


NetBack Replicator will back the data on a workstation or client PC up to the NAS.


QGet is QNAP's free download-management utility, and it is available for Windows and Mac computers. It allows you to manage BT-, HTTP-, and FTP Download Station tasks on multiple Turbo NAS servers and gives you the ability to add, remove, or watch your BT download jobs on the NAS from a workstation PC.


With the Qsync utility, you can synchronize files across different devices and share files across groups and communities.


The vSphere client plug-in allows you to manage VMware datastores on the NAS directly through the vSphere client console.


Qsnap utility allows you to easily capture screenshots on your PC and edit, save, or share them. TPU provides a similar utility called TPUcapture.