14 DAY TRIAL // QNAP seems to be quite busy lately refreshing its entire NAS server lineup, their entry-level enterprise solutions range being the latest to receive an upgrade thanks to three rack-mounted 4-drive units, the TS-459U-RP+, TS-859U-RP+ and the TS-459U-SP+.
Coming with either 8TB or 16TB of online storage, when paired with 2TB 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch drives, these new offerings use Intel's dual-core Atom D525 processor with 1.8GHz clock speed and 1GB RAM in order to achieve up to 113MB/s transfer rates (FTP/Samba reads) via dual Gigabit LAN ports.
Furthermore, all three solutions support a wide number of RAID modes (RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 5+ hot spare, and 6+ hot spare) together with online RAID capacity expansion, online RAID level migration, and RAID recovery.
Data safety is further increased by redundant power supplies as well as volume level AES 256-bit encryption, the TS-x59U-RP+ models even featuring a DOM architecture with the ability to boot from dual operating systems in the event of a failure.
But this is not all these new NAS servers offer to their customers as QNAP's new offerings fully embrace the cloud computing trend being VMWare and Citrix ready and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V clusters compliant while also featuring iSCSI, MC/S, MPIO, SPC-3, and thin provisioning support.
“QNAP rack-mounted Turbo NAS servers have long been hailed as the perfect blending of performance and usability,” said Laurent Cheng, Product Manager for QNAP Systems.
“No other NAS manufacturer delivers the raw horsepower of a QNAP NAS plus real-world business applications like centralized network-wide backup, hosting of up to 32 websites, file sharing among Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX machines, and a whole lot more,” concluded the company's rep.
The new TS-x59U-RP+ NAS servers will be available starting in November, although QNAP hasn't disclosed any infos regarding pricing.