hi my beloved ts-673a chashed 4years old ,with broken Lan accecs and need repair ( bought a new nas ). i´ve kind of lost trust in my Nas but ,i love the powerfull ryzen cpu , and need a new one for backup insted of my old backup nas. So is it worth spending 419euro on repair?!
Funny enough it chrashed less 1,5 month after i installed a 10Gb lan card (qxg-10g1t)
Tia. sølver nielsen
So I assume you mean TS-673A? There is no TX-673A.
I think it is worth repairing. What failed in the unit? Just the network adapter? You should be able to use your 10GB card no problem. That’s all I use in mine. But yeah, I would repair it.
Also, FYI - the Ryzen V1500B in that NAS is not a “powerful” chip. Trust me - I own your NAS’s big brother the TS-873A. The Ryzen is not a “bad” chip but it’s not “powerful” by any means. The i3 that was in my TVS-672XT was more powerful than the V1500B and I’ve now upgraded that NAS to an i7 and it blows away the performance of the TS-873A. Granted, the V1500B is way more powerful than the ARM core A55 devices in the Annapurna Labs chips that the ARM NAS units use. It’s also more powerful than the Celeron and the other low end chips you’ll see in NAS units similar to the TS-451, etc. It is a mid-range chip.
AMD makes very powerful Ryzen chips, but the one of the TS-x73A series is part of their embedded versions. Go check out some of the CPU benchmarks. You’ll see what I mean. If I could upgrade my TS-837A to a more powerful CPU I would (just like I did in my TVS-673XT) but unfortunately, that CPU is only available in a soldered down version. It doesn’t use a socket and is not upgradeable.
lost all connection the 2 onboard lan ports , only accecs was through the 10Gb card.
it was like if they was turned off some how, like if one of the many powerlines in the psu was off and not supplying the lan chip?
when i said powerfull cpu it´s because i was only used to an dual-celeron in my old ts-451a?!
Well, the V1500B is certainly more powerful than the Celeron! 
Does the NAS recognize the network adapters in Network and Virtual Switch?
This is what it looked like, and after a, reset, and the “level 2 “ reset it was not accessible by any means?? as i said, it was like af the power is missing to the network chip?!
ps. i had a long chat with Qnap support center, and came to the conclution that it was toast
OK. So they show they are still there but disconnected. Also, no need to hide your private LAN address - we all use the same set of IP blocks.
As far as I am concerned, you don’t need the built in NICs since you have a 10Gbit card that is working well. Unless something else is broken and not working, why not just continue to use it. Save yourself the repair costs and instead save money to buy a new NAS some day or use it when the NAS fully stops working and get it repaired then.
He would lose Wake on Lan.
I have never been able to have Wake on Lan work for anything on any device. I would bet he does not use it. Minor price to pay.
While I agree, since it wasn’t previously mentioned, WOL may not be relevant here.
But, I use WOL all the time for various devices, including my TS-231P. It works as expected and is very convenient in my case.
Thank you for your long-time support of our products! By the way, would you mind sharing what model your new NAS is?
hi Steve, yes of cause.
i´ve bought a TS-h973ax-8G , because of the onboard 10Gbe lan port. As a hobby photographer i emty my memorycard to my nas, and work directly on the images from there.
i have thought of getting a m.2 drive for in / out cache , when is that nessesary?!
Cache doesn’t work well and can slow things down. And no matter what, you would want two M.2 drives in RAID1 configuration. Otherwise you could lose all kinds of stuff if the drive failed.
Well, it must work somehow. In all my years I have never been successful with it. Probably a PBCAD* problem…
*PBCAD = Problem Between Chair and Desk
Yeah, forget about cache and use them (never single SSD’s!) as a dedicated volume, on a QuTS NAS your system pool should be on SSD anyways, so use that as a ‘start from scratch’ situation.
