Run Passmark's memtest under Windows in Virtual station?

[Enquiries]

Think its possible?

TS-453D, 32GB RAM (timetec)

Thanks for all your set up tutorials!

JV

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As for running PassMark’s MemTest inside Virtualization Station on your TS-453D — technically, you can run it in a VM, but it won’t give you an accurate test of your NAS’s physical memory. When MemTest runs inside a virtual machine, it's only testing the virtualized memory that the VM sees — not the actual physical RAM directly. So it’s useful for checking for errors within the VM environment, but not for catching hardware-level issues with your NAS’s RAM modules.

If you're trying to confirm that your 32GB of Timetec RAM is stable and error-free, the best option is still to run MemTest86 from a bootable USB stick, directly on the NAS hardware — which unfortunately isn’t possible on QNAP models, since they don't support traditional BIOS boot like a standard PC.

Alternatives:
You could test the Timetec RAM in a standard desktop PC using a USB boot version of MemTest86 before installing it into the NAS.

If the system is running stable under load (e.g. large file transfers, Docker, Plex transcodes), and there's no crashing or weird behaviour, that’s usually a good sign that the memory is working as it should.