QNAP reveals 8-Drive TS-859U-RP Rack-Mounted NAS Server
Irrefutably, the demand for a highly-efficient, reliable server has been witnessing a stacking up. Keeping this in mind, QNAP has recently announced the TS-859U-RP Business Series Turbo NAS server. Designed for corporate and enterprise IT market, the new 2U rack-mounted unit with 8 hot-swappable 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hard disk drives falls light on one’s pocket.
The new TS-859U-RP comes equipped with a dual-core Intel Atom D510 1.66GHz CPU and 1GB DDRII RAM, delivering incredibly fast performance coupled with ultra-low power consumption. The device boasts of advanced networking features including dual Gigabit LAN ports with 7 bonding modes, load-balancing, and multiple IP settings.
“Corporate and Enterprise IT managers depend on high performance, highly reliable networked storage to meet the insatiable storage needs of today’s companies,” commented Laurent Cheng, Product Manager of QNAP Systems, Inc. “The TS-859U-RP is an ideal choice for these environments as it offers up to 16TB of online, networked storage with levels of performance and reliability demanded by network users with business-ready features that administrators can use to deploy network-wide backups, enable file sharing inside & outside the company, share printers, host websites, and much more.”
Ensuring to offer an unprecedented level of performance, the TS-859U-RP has been certified as fully compatible with VMware’s vSphere4 (ESX 4.0) virtualization platform, ideal for workgroup or company-wide file sharing, storage, and advanced server applications. In addition, the offering comes with iSCSI for business, which enables easy network storage capacity expansion by simply attaching other QNAP Turbo NAS units to the network and establishing virtual volumes.
Further, the reliable device is enriched with file sharing in mixed Windows/Mac/Linux/Unix networks, advanced power management with scheduled power on/off & wake on LAN access, support for Microsoft Active Directory, secure AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, HDD SMART, which notifies the administrator via email or SMS when a drive is failing or has failed, and a highly comprehensive log system of any NAS currently available.
The pricing and availability details of the new QNAP TS-859U-RP rack-mounted NAS server are yet to be announced.
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