Control Panel - System Settings - General Settings

The General Settings group provides system-administration-specific options. You can change the server's name or system port here, alter time settings, check codepage options, and specify password rules. These options also allow you to set the login screen's style.

Control Panel - System Settings - Security

The security menu provides several options to properly protect your server. You should examine all of these if you intend to store sensitive data on the NAS.

Control Panel - System Settings - Power

ErP, or EuP, stands for Energy Using Product and is a directive developed by the European Union. It is a measure of how much power a system consumes, and its purpose is to protect the environment by regulating how much energy goes to waste. The ErP Lot 6 2013 directive asks for less than 0.5 W power consumption in standby and is obligatory for every PC or NAS sold in the EU. This NAS will consume less than 0.5 W in standby with EuP enabled, but enabling it will disable Wake on LAN, AC power resumption, and all scheduled power settings.

Control Panel - System Settings - Hardware

These options allow you to configure the NAS server's hardware functions. The most important ones are HDD Standby, Write Cache, which nets you increased write performance, and the Smart Fan option, which allows you to set the fan to auto-mode or a customized fan profile.

Control Panel - System Settings - Firmware Update

The QTS OS features a live update function that can automatically check for newer OS versions when you log into the administration interface. You can also join the QTS beta program to receive beta firmware. The update is a very straightforward procedure during which you won't loose the data stored on the NAS; however, QNAP does prompt you to back everything up before proceeding with a firmware update.

Control Panel - System Settings - Backup/Restore

You can easily backup and restore the system's settings through this menu. There is another option here that allows you to restore the NAS server to its factory default settings.

Control Panel - System Settings - External Device

All connected external storage disks, USB printers, and UPS devices can be configured through these options. You can format external storage disks into all popular formats, including EXT4, NTFS, and FAT32.

Control Panel - System Settings - System Status

The System Status window does not include the resource monitor anymore. However, you still get a summary of the system and its hardware, your network's status, and all running system services.


CPU-, HDD-, and System temperatures are a part of the Hardware Information tab in the System Status window. There is also a widget you can drag to the desktop that will keep track of system temperatures.

Control Panel - System Settings - System Logs

A great number of event logs can be stored on the NAS. These include warnings, errors, and various informative messages. So make sure to check the event log to troubleshoot a problem you come across. You can also check on all connected users here and disconnect them if they are causing problems.

Control Panel - System Settings - Resource Monitor

The resource monitor provides information on CPU-, RAM-, network-, and storage utilization. You can also take a look at a detailed list of all running processes here.

Control Panel - Privilege Settings

You will find the Shared Folder settings, which are crucial to the security of all files stored on the NAS, in the Privileges menu. This menu will allow you to create new shared folders for users and user groups or edit access permissions for already existing shared folders. If you want a specific folder to be accessible by anyone, you need to enable the "guest login" option in its settings. You can also enable encryption for a specific folder only should you want to protect its contents.