14 DAY TRIAL // QNAP seems quite busy lately, releasing one NAS solution after the other, the company recently announcing they are about to refresh their mid-range lineup of business network storage devices with the new TS-239 Pro II+ and TS-439 Pro II+ offerings, that come with a more powerful processor compared to their predecessors.
As a result these two and 4-drive desktop NAS models get Intel's D425 single-core Atom CPU clocked at 1.8GHz as well as 1GB of DDR3 memory in order to provide its users with faster RAID operation and improved transfer speeds.
Compatible with 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard drives and supporting a maximum of 8TB of storage, the TS-239 Pro II+ and TS-439 Pro II+ NAS servers come with VMWare, Citrix and Windows 2008 Hyper-V clusters virtualization platform support, making then an ideal candidate for a broad range of office storage infrastructures.
Furthermore, these drives also offer advanced RAID configurations with online RAID capacity expansion, online RAID level migration, and RAID recovery, the company's management software being shipped together with these units.
Reaching version 3.3, this software, offers a rich suite of business-essential applications including iSCSI services with SPC-3 persistent reservation for clustering, MPIO and MC/S, web server hosting, ISO file archiving, to name just a few of its features.
"The new Intel Atom-based single-core NAS continues to perform an important niche as a mid-range NAS server at price points which are attractive to small business users," said Laurent Cheng, Product Manager of QNAP Systems.
"QNAP refreshes the CPU clock speed of TS-239 Pro II+ and TS-439 Pro II+ to 1.8GHz which delivers even faster and better performance while executing concurrent applications and intensive data transfer," concluded the company's rep.
Unfortunately, information regarding pricing are not available at this time, but we do know this will start shipping sometime this month.