Administration Interface

From the Home/Overview link of the administration interface you can access all available features and settings of the NAS. As you can see they are grouped into main categories in order to be easier to navigate.


The System Administration group holds the most crucial settings including the Network configuration which you have to visit first in the beginning of the set up. Through the Network link you have access to the TCP/IP settings and from there you can select the operating mode of the two NICs. If your switch supports Link Aggregation then you should enable the respective option from here to provide a higher bandwidth between the NAS and the switch. Of course LACP needs two Ethernet cables to be connected on both ports of the NAS. From this group of settings you can also set a DDNS Service that will inform you about the WAN IP, so you will be able to discover your NAS on the Internet. All in all, at the end you will be very familiar with all System Administration choices since you will use them frequently at least in the beginning.


The third category groups all Disk related settings. From here you can check the health of the installed disks, format them if needed or select the RAID levels that suit your needs. Also through these settings you can create an iSCSI target and LUN. Using iSCSI the storage you have on your NAS can be seen as local disks by any of the client PCs, however all data will be transferred over the network to/from them. LUN stands for Logical Unit Number and in essence LUNs are numbered disk drives, which the operating system of the client PC sees as volumes.


Access Right Management settings allow you to set the domain security, make new accounts or user groups, set access rights and also manage the shared folder of the NAS. From here you can also set the quotas of the NAS shared folders.


If you want the NAS to be visible from various types of networks then you have to enable the corresponding setting of the Network Services group. Moreover from this group of settings you can enable the FTP, Telnet and SSH server along with the Web Server, through which you are able to host webpage files on the NAS.


All extra applications that augment the NAS with enhanced usability and features that normally can be found in a normal PC, are grouped into this category. Without any doubt the most interesting choice here is the QPKG center through which you can install custom made applications to the NAS that are similar to the various programs we install to our PCs. These QPKG packages are either released by QNAP or by third party developers and all are checked and approved by QNAP prior release. You can read more about QPKGs here.


The Backup group provides access to all back up settings and features of the TS-669 Pro. You can conduct remote replication to another NAS, back up to Cloud storage, to an Apple PC or to an external disk. Here you can set also the functionality of the front copy button.


The External device folder provides control to the external devices that are attached to the NAS through USB interfaces. You can format the external storage devices to a variety of file systems, share a USB printer to the network and set up a UPS.


Through these selections you can set up the MyCloudNAS service, which is offered for free by QNAP to all QNAP NAS owners. Here you will find only three icons.


The last folder of settings is highly interesting since you can access crucial information about the NAS and check on the system resources. The latter shows you CPU, memory, disk and bandwidth usage and also lists all running processes.

Before we proceed to the test sessions, if you want to check on TS-669 Pro interactivity with mobile phones read this page of our previous TS-419P II review and if you need some useful tips on how to install IPKG packages or increase the RAID rebuilding/synchronization speed check here.