THE TS-453BE-4G INTERIOR

As mentioned in the previous page to unlock and remove the front cover you need to push the switch located on the left side.

Once you do that you can access the 4 drive trays seen above.

These drive trays are made out of hard plastic and feature a tool-less system (you can also use screws for even more stability).

Although the exterior of the enclosure is made out of plastic its frame as expected is made out of aluminum.

Here we see the PCIe 2.0 x2 slot.

The TS-453Be may come with up to 4GB DDR3L SODIMM RAM from the factory (by Micron in our sample) but there's an empty SODIMM slot in which you can add another 4GB module.

For 10GbE tests we'll be using an LAN-10G1SR Single-Port 10 Gigabit PCI-Express Network Expansion Card by QNAP.

Once mounted the card is secured in place via a tiny screw.

With all 6 Seagate Enterprise NAS 6TB hard disk drives mounted we're good to go.