14 DAY TRIAL // QNAP has earlier today announced the launch of three new network storage solutions from the Turbo NAS series that were designed to target a wide range of consumers, from home users to corporate workgroups as well as anything in between.
All the three drives are powered by a 2.0GHz Marvell processor paired with 512MB of DDR3 system memory and feature either one or two Gigabit LAN ports.
The products can be easily integrated into an existing network of workgroups, provide centralized storage with antivirus protection as well as cross-platform data sharing for Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX machines.
Furthermore, users can access the data on the server via FTP, a web-based file manager, WebDAV or through the MyCloudNAS service, which basically transforms the NAS devices into private cloud storage systems that can be accessed from the Internet.
The most powerful of the three NAS units announced today, the TS-419P II, which includes 4 hard swappable drive bays and two Gigabit LAN ports, can also be used as an webserver or USB print server and can provide backup storage for Windows users using QBack backup software and Mac users using Time Machine.
The other two NAS models, the dual-drive TS-219P II, with a single Gigabit LAN port and hot-swap support, and the single-drive TS-119P II, can stream multimedia content to UPnP-compliant home devices and act as download servers via the BitTorrent, FTP, HTTP or eMule protocols.
“QNAP’s performance testing reveals the new models can achieve a download speed of 109 MB/s and upload speed of 75 MB/s in a Windows networking environment,” said Laurent Cheng, product manager of QNAP.
“The new models are also extremely energy efficient, consuming as little as 4 watts in sleep mode or 7 watts in operation,” concluded the company's rep.
QNAP has already started shipping the TS-419P II, TS-219P II, and TS-119P II NAS servers, but hasn't revealed any information regarding the prices of these solutions.