NAS Solutions

QNAP TS-219 Turbo NAS scores 8.5/10

2009-06-10T12:07:00.005-05:00

Polish website CDRinfo.pl seems to be very pleased with QNAP's TS-219 Turbo NAS as they give it an 8.5/10 rating. Check out QNAP's two-bay TS-219 Turbo NAS featuring a 1.2 GHz CPU and 512MB DDRII RAM, right here.

QNAP sets up new distribution network

2009-06-07T15:33:00.002-05:00

QNAP has announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro Inc. today to fulfill the demands in the network data storage market. Buy doing this, you can expect to get your hands on more QNAP products quicker. The QNAP Turbo NAS series have been widely recognized as high quality, high performance green storage solutions for SOHO, Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB), and enterprises. Because of the agreemtn, Ingram Micro will now begin distributing QNAP's awards-winning Turbo NAS and NVR in the U.S.!

QNAP Establishes Distribution Network with Ingram Micro (US)

Irvine, California and Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009 - QNAP Systems, Inc., the leading Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Network Video Recorder (NVR) provider, announced it has entered into a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro Inc. today to fulfill the demands in the network data storage market. QNAP Turbo NAS series have been widely recognized as high quality, high performance green storage solutions for SOHO, Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB), and enterprises. Ingram Micro will now begin distributing QNAP's awards-winning Turbo NAS and NVR in the U.S.

"We are pleased to strengthen our distribution network through Ingram Micro's reseller channels to widely offer our new generation Intel-based iSCSI Turbo NAS series to the market. The powerful Turbo NAS series are designed for business users who require storage solutions that integrate performance, features, capacity, and manageability. The Turbo NAS delivers higher performance than other general SOHO NAS brands in the market and allows intensive simultaneous data access in the business environment," said Meiji Chang, CEO of QNAP Systems. "Facing the intensive growth of digital data for business transactions nowadays, SMB and enterprises need powerful, reliable, and scalable storage solutions. We believe that QNAP can fulfill those needs with our high performance NAS products." With versatile applications such as iSCSI target service, complete back-up solution, remote application, AES 256-bit encryption, Online RAID Capacity Expansion, Online RAID Level Migration, mail server, printer server, etc., QNAP Turbo NAS is a compelling storage solution for SMB and enterprises.

The Turbo NAS family consists of 2-bay, 4-bay, 5-bay, 6-bay, and 8-bay tower, 1U, 2U chassis (with redundant power supply) models and are now available for resellers via Ingram Micro distribution network.

About QNAP
Founded in April 2004, QNAP Systems, Inc. is a technology leader of Linux OS embedded Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Network Video Recorder (NVR) systems. QNAP provides customers with high performance, highly reliable backup and security solutions. Today, QNAP continues to lead the industry with our innovation in design and technology. Our products have gained worldwide recognition. For more information, please visit www.qnap.com.

About Ingram Micro
As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company serves approximately 150 countries and is the only global broad-based IT distributor with operations in Asia. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.

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2.5-inch, Atom-based Pro Turbo NAS

2009-06-07T15:17:00.000-05:00

The new SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS will accommodate up to 4 SATA drives of your choice. Other specs include 1GB of DDRII memory, an Atom N270 processor, support for RAID 0/1/5/6/5+hot spare configurations, three USB ports, two eSATA ports, and all the usual security measures you'd expect from a small business / SOHO-minded NAS. No info on price or launch date, yet.

QNAP Unveils the First 2.5" SATA, 4-bay, Intel Atom-based SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS

Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009 - QNAP Systems, Inc. today announces the first 2.5" SATA HDD, 4-bay, Intel Atom-based SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS dedicated to SMB and SOHO users. Designed with Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz CPU, 1GB DDRII memory, and DOM (Disk on Module) architecture, the SS-439 Pro is the most compact, powerful, and power-saving 2.5" 4-bay NAS that supports RAID 5/ RAID 6 for highly secure data protection. The NAS supports four 2.5" SATA hard drives which are featured with high stability, low power consumption, low vibration, and longer life expectancy. With excellent cooling and energy-saving design, the power consumption of the NAS with four hard drives installed is as low as 18W. Moreover, the SS-439 Pro supports 3 USB 2.0 ports and 2 eSATA ports for storage capacity expansion and backup destination, and advanced features such as built-in iSCSI target service (max 8 iSCSI devices) with Thin Provisioning, Online RAID Capacity Expansion, Online RAID Level Migration, AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, Wake on LAN, automatic policy-based IP blocking, instant SMS and email alert, BT and eMule download, schedule power on and power off, 2 Giga LAN ports, 4 IP cameras for network surveillance, etc.
"The SS-439 Pro is a compact, silent, and power-saving server which is ideal to work for long hours in the office. When four low power 2.5" hard drives are installed, the power consumption of the NAS is only 18W, which is almost the same as an energy-saving light bulb. It is an environment-friendly storage solution that largely saves the electricity expense of the users and minimizes pollution to the earth," says Jerry Deng, Product Manager from QNAP.

The SS-439 Pro is a powerful server of diversified features, e.g. network server, FTP server, web server with built-in phpMyAdmin, Joomla, MySQL/ SQLite, editable php.ini, printer server (up to 3 printers), etc. The exclusive QPKG software expansion feature enables the users to add more software applications to the NAS server such as setting up their own mail server by XDove or web page or online communication system with the customers by WordPress. Moreover, the users can make use of the Surveillance Station (network surveillance) with maximum four IP-based cameras for office security monitoring.

For more information about the SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS, please visit http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=120.

About QNAP
QNAP Systems, Inc. is a dominant provider of Linux OS embedded network-attached storage (NAS) and network surveillance system. We have released numerous NAS and NVR (network video recorder) series, providing our customers high performance and high reliability backup and security solutions. Today, QNAP continues to lead the industry with our innovation in design and technology. Our products have gained worldwide recognition. Further information about QNAP products is available on www.qnap.com.
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Need a 4 Bay NAS in Japan?

2009-06-07T15:14:00.002-05:00

Corega has announced their latest 4 Bay NAS, CG-NSC4501GT, which supports up to 4 3.5” SATA HDDs and RAID 0/1/5/10/5+. Also, it is iTunes, FTP server and DLNA compatible.

Price: without any HDD - 43,980 Yen / US$463 / 342 Euro
Region: Japan
Availability: Unknown

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