QNAP Systems has unveiled TS-859U-RP Business Series Turbo NAS server enclosure, a 2U rack-mounted unit with 8 hot-swappable 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hard disk drives and a redundant power-supply for maximum up-time.
According to QNAP, the TS-859U-RP features a dual-core Intel Atom D510 1.66GHz CPU, 1GB DDRII RAM and contains two power units. If one power supply fails, the other will continue to supply the power for the entire system and alert the administrator via email or SMS to the failure. It also embodies dual gigabit LAN ports with 7 bonding modes, comprising failover, load-balancing, multiple-IP settings.
In addition, the new offering features a fail-safe dual OS DOM architecture for positive system boot ups, and single, JBOD, RAID 0/1/5/6/5+ hot spare/6+ hot spare with online RAID capacity expansion and online RAID level migration, and RAID recovery. It comes with iSCSI for business, which allows network storage capacity expansion by attaching other QNAP Turbo NAS units to the network and establishing virtual volumes.
The company said that the new NAS server supports SPC-3 persistent reservation for clustering in VMware and also Hyper-V clusters in Microsoft Windows Server 2008, as is thin-provisioning, MPIO, and MC/S. It includes file sharing in mixed Windows/Mac/Linux/UNIX networks, power management with scheduled power on/off and wake on LAN access, support for Microsoft Active Directory (AD), and AES 256-bit volume-based encryption.
In addition, the new server features HDD S.M.A.R.T., which notifies the administrator via email or SMS when a drive is failing or has failed. The TS-859U-RP’s functionality can be extended with QPKG software plug-ins, with 15 currently available for telephony, Java, Joomla!, WordPress, and other applications.
The TS-859U-RP ships with Version 3.2 of NAS management software, which adds new DFS support, import of user-list, Internet Protocol IPv6 and IPv4 dual stack. Its Web File Manager 2 features a redesigned user interface and functionality for improved file sharing and management. WebDAV is also available for users to collaboratively share, access, and edit files over HTTP and HTTPS.
