The most important icon on the desktop is the one that leads to the Control Panel. The Control Panel is divided into five main groups: Privileges, Network Services, Storage Manager, General Settings, and System Information.

TOS - Control Panel Privileges

Use the Privileges options to create and add new users and set user groups and shared folders.


The User Group menu allows you to create new user groups or modify existing ones.


Creating a shared folder is a straightforward procedure, and you have the option to apply those permissions that cover your needs.


All Shared Folder settings are depicted in the screenshots above.

TOS - Network Services

The Network Services menu allows you to configure all network-related options. The Network Interface tab is the one hiding the most interesting options.


You have to enable the Windows File Service in order to be able to access the server's shared folders from a PC running Windows OS.


The Telnet and SSH options are of most interest to advanced users.


TOS also includes web server and virtual host functions, which you can enable through these settings.


The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) set of networking protocols are supported by TOS.

TOS - Storage Manager

The Storage Manager contains all RAID configuration options and provides you with the ability to check on the health of installed HDDs and SSDs. You will find five main group of options here: Hard Drive, RAID, ISCSI Target, Virtual Disk, and External Storage.


Use the RAID icon to set or edit your drives' configuration. As we noticed, there is no option to disable the Bitmap function when you pick RAID 1, which might offer higher RAID rebuilding speeds, but will decrease networking transfer speeds.


Setting up a RAID configuration is very easy in TOS.


An external storage device can only be formatted into three formats, with the popular NTFS file format missing. TOS also failed to recognize a storage device we had pre-formatted into NTFS.


It was nice to find ISCSI options in such a budget NAS.