Question 1

What version of G-series AMD processor? Is it Steppe Eagle 32bit or Crowned Eagle 64bit or is it the older version that is not ECC compatible?

Accepted Answer

Tom's Hardware had a thorough review.
"Powering those apps is AMD's GX-420MC SoC, sporting a 2GHz quad-core processor with 2MB of L2 cache and a 17.5W TDP. It's a Jaguar derivative, built on a 28nm process. AMD endows the SoC with AES-NI instruction support, accelerating encryption and decryption."

Question 2

Thanks for the review!!!
How do you connect the qnap directly to the PC via the ethernet card?

Accepted Answer

Your question is an odd one.  This is a Network Attached Storage.  It's designed to serve its "storage" via network mounted drives. If you want something you plug into your computer and see a new drive, get an external USB drive - it will be much easier and way cheaper.  That said, this QNAP has two ethernet ports.  You can define a static ip on one of the ports, connect an ethernet cable to it, plug in the cable directly to your pc, and manually configure your pc with another static ip in the same subnet.  You'd then need to share your drives via NFS, CIFS, or AFP on the QNAP and mount the share on your computer.

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